Description
‘Culture is the new salt’ announces the bid book of the Austrian region Salzkammergut in their application for the title European Capital of Culture for 2024. After various alterations, ‘Culture salts Europe’ states the title of the programme for the region’s yearlong event process. The word plays of the notions ‘culture’ and ‘salt’ provokes my interests in the event-based regeneration project for the Salzkammergut region and its relevance to the concept of the Anthropocene: The seemingly simple slogan and its further adaptations invite for critical interrogations of the nature~culture relationships that the event process inherits.The proposal of the Anthropocene as a new geological era, in which human’s influence in the natural environment is no longer reversible, has had substantial reception in the humanities and social sciences. As a philosophical concept, the Anthropocene invites for critical discussions for the relationship of nature and culture and hereby questions how humans and environments co-produce each other. With the omnipresence of the ongoing climate crisis and its socio-economic/ socio-political consequences, the field of event studies and management continuously debate the notion of sustainability. While this debate acknowledges the relevance of events and its contribution to climate crisis, it does not pay attention to the underlying capacity of socio-cultural negotiations that define events as tools for meaning making. Therefore, in my research I think events through the Anthropocene and herewith propose an investigative inquiry of the human~environment negotiations of the event process of Salzkammergut 2024.
| Period | 30 Aug 2024 |
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| Event title | International Geographical Congress |
| Event type | Conference |
| Location | Dublin, IrelandShow on map |
| Degree of Recognition | International |