International seminary
Touristic Territories: The Touristic Imagery
and the Construction of Contemporary
Landscape | CALL FOR PAPERS

Girona, Spain 
DEADLINE | 21.09.2013
EPS | Escola Politècnica Superior
Universitat de Girona

The seminar’s goal is to analyze the impact of tourism in the transformation of the city and the territory. Tourism is considered a phenomenon that correlates and communicates discourses by architects, urban planners as well as social and cultural policies regarding the methods of constructing imagery related to tourism. This imagery is constructed through multiple intervention strategies multidisciplinary discourses and practices that project and construct myths, desires, and utopias related to implicit or explicit realities.




KEY ISSUES 
• Urban, territorial or sectorial policies referring to tourism: areas of definition and its relation and impact on the urban, rural and coastal territory;
• Architectural and natural public heritage processes: policies, models and reflection regarding specific cases;
• Architectural typologies related to the tourism phenomenon and tourism urbanization models, as well as their influence on urban policies;
• Modern urban planning models: reflection and real impact in the spatial organization of the territory caused by tourism;
• The images and models of the tourism phenomenon as a reflection of a city project.

CONFERENCE PROGRAM
1.Tourism, cities and urban landscape 
• Cristian Suau | Univerity of Cardiff, Uk 
Industrial Landscape, Tourism and the Grand Paysage: Transformations between Memory and Invention in Europe
• Nadia Fava | Universidad de Girona, EPS 
La Barcelona de Leon Jaussely : tra visibile e invisibile
• José María García Fuentes | Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña, ETSAV
La construcción “barrio gótico” de Barcelona: la autenticidad de un falso
• Carolina B. García Estévez | Universidad de Girona, EPS
• Round table. Chaired by Marisa García Vergara
2. Tourism, territory and natural landscape
• Pisana Posocco | Università della Sapienza, Roma
L’uso dei modelli ‘utopici’ nella pianificazione degli insediamenti turistici
• Julio Garnica | Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña, ETSAB 
Cadaqués, ‘isla’ del Mediterráneo 
• Gemma Domènech Casadevall | Institut Català de Recerca en Patrimoni Cultural - Catalunya
El Club Med del Cap de Creus (Cadaqués): arquitectura i paisatge en conflicte
• Ramón Faura | Universitat Rovira i Virgili

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE 
• Antonio Pizza | UPC, Spain
• Roger Miralles | URV, Spain
• Heleni Porfyriou | CNR, Italy
• Nadia Fava | UdG, Spain
• Marisa García | UdG, Spain 

SCHEDULE
21.09.2013 | Deadline for reception of abstracts (max. 600 words)
05.10.2013 | Deadline for approval of papers.
04.11.2013 Deadline for reception of papers (max. 4.000 words).

Abstacts and papers (Spanish or English) should be sent by e-mail to:
territoriosdelturismo@gmail.com
15.10.2013 | Deadline for registration 

REGISTRATION
60 Euros | registration fee before 15.10.2013
100 Euros | registration fee after 15.10.2013

INFO & CONTACTS
Conference website
EMAIL | territoriosdelturismo@gmail.com 
PHONE |  +34 972 41 9776 - 34 600243280