Call for participating the 2021 project Back to Life Revitalisation of Places post covid 19 and photo-exhibition exchange “Florence in the World, the World in Florence”

We are glad to present our new 2021 project Back to Life Revitalisation of Places post covid 19 and to invite you to participate. The purpose is to commit groups of young university students in the world in promotion (in time of pandemic) interpretation, presentation and enhancement the “local cultural expressions” of a specific heritage site in their country, by implementing the Foundation’s “Life Beyond Tourism” Methodology. Universities-partners with classes on Architecture, Landscape, Heritage, Geography, Tourism, Social Sciences and Humanities and similar are invited to participate.

STEPS OF THE PROJECT:

The first step in this project is to invite you to host our photo-exhibition “Florence in the World, the World in Florence”. It’s 14 posters (made by Corinna Del Bianco) that explore Florence, its architecture, landscape, lifestyle, its cuisine, its ways of saying; posters are endowed of the NFC technology that allows guests to access additional online content by simply placing their smartphone close to each poster. It is a mere example how we have represented the Florence identity, according to our Life Beyond Tourism vision. For further information on the exhibition, click here.
Later, we will invite you to select a group of students to produce an analogous exhibition dedicated to the local cultural expressions, traditional knowledge and customs of their region that the Foundation and the LBT-TTD Movement will exhibit in Florence in Fall 2021, in the International Festival of the Cultural Expressions from the World; an ideal world intersection of cultural identities nurturing the desire of knowledge, respect and dialogue and prompting the post-pandemic-travel-for-values. Of course, the dissemination throughout our Portal www.lifebeyodtourism.org, social media, newsletter and so on.

Herewith, we are inviting you to express your interest in hosting the exhibition in your venue and creating a youth working group for the production of a “cultural storytelling” a heritage site at your choice.

Finally, for your information, here follows those institutions that already adopted the project: like Azerbaijan University of Architecture and Construction , Durham University, Ivanovo State University, Riga Technical University, Tambov State Technical University, Togliatti Academy of Management, Azerbaijan University of Tourism and Management, Tbilisi New Higher Educational Institute, European Humanities University in Vilnius, Academy of Fine Arts of Lodz, UCLG Africa and ALGA (Morocco) Kyoto Seika University and Kyrgyz Russian Slavic University will join soon. Of course, those are just the first ones who joined the project, but we are confident that for the time being many other partners will participate.