What is a pop-up store and how can it be used for organisational counterspacing? The pop-up can be interpreted as a fashionable and hypermodern platform focusing on the needs of a younger generation of consumers that searches for new experiences and is prone to ad hoc decision-making. From this perspective, the pop-up is a typical expression of the experience economy. But it is more. The ephemeral pop-up store, usually lasting from one day to six months, is also a spatial practice on the boundary between place as something stable/univocal and space as something transitory/polyphonic. Organizational theory has criticized the idea of a stable place and proposed the concept of spacing with a focus on the becoming of space. In this article, the pop-up store is introduced as a fashionable intervention into organizational spacing. It suggests a complementary perspective to non-representational theory and frames the pop-up as co-actor engaging everyday users in appropriating space. Drawing on Lefebvre’s notions of differential space, festival and evental moment, theory is revisited and then operationalized in two pop-up store experiments. Apart from contributing to the ongoing theoretical exploration of the spacing concept, this article aims to inspire differential pop-up practices in organisations. https://www.linkedin.com/in/overdiek12345/
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In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, the future of tourism is a much-debated topic both in academic and non-academic circles with commentators expounding contrasting perspectives. This conceptual paper contributes to such debates and aims at envisioning plausible futures of cultural tourism, in particular. For that purpose, we first discuss cultural tourism trends and the future scenarios available in the literature. Then, we articulate three cultural tourism visions of the decades to come: a utopian, a dystopian and a heterotopian vision. Finally, we conclude that the heterotopian vision provides the most nuanced interpretation of the future of cultural tourism and we discuss the potential ramifications of such a vision.
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De verschillen in belangen, betrokkenheid, gebruiksvormen en gebruiksdoeleinden van de publieke ruimte tussen volwassenen en jongeren brengt spanningen met zich mee. Deze spanningen dragen niet bij aan een gezonde leefomgeving. Het is daarom belangrijk om te onderzoeken hoe we de publieke ruimte zo kunnen vormgeven dat iedereen er zich welkom, veilig en thuis voelt. In dit rapport wordt dit onderzocht vanuit de positie van jongeren. De leidende vraag voor dit rapport is: Hoe kan op democratische wijze met jongeren een inclusieve publieke ruimte gecreëerd worden? Deze vraag roept ook een tweetal deelvragen op: Wat zijn de voorwaarden voor de inclusieve publieke ruimte voor jongeren? Hoe krijgt jongerenparticipatie vorm in het creëren van inclusieve democratische publieke ruimte?
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