Event Design: Social perspectives and practices - Routledge Advances in Event Research Series - Greg Richards - Books - Taylor & Francis Ltd - 9780415704649 - October 9, 2014
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Event Design: Social perspectives and practices - Routledge Advances in Event Research Series 1st edition


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Events are becoming more complex as their range of functions grows, as meeting places, creative spaces, economic catalysts, social drivers, community builders, image makers, business forums and network nodes. Effective design can produce more successful business models that can help to sustain cultural and sporting activities even in difficult economic times. This process requires creative imagination, and a design methodology or in other words ?imagineering?. 

This book brings together a wide range of international experts in the fields of events, design and imagineering to examine the event design process. It explores the entire event experience from conception and production to consumption and co-creation.  By doing so it offers insight into effective strategies for coping with the shift in value creation away from transactional economic value towards social and relational value which benefit a range of stakeholders from the community to policy makers. Mega-events, small community events, business events and festivals in eight different countries are examined providing an international view of social issues in event design.

A wide selection of current research perspectives is employed, integrating both theoretical and applied contributions. The multidisciplinary nature of the material means that it will appeal to a broad academic audience, such as art and design, cultural studies, tourism, events studies, sociology and hospitality.


232 pages, 27 black & white illustrations, 22 black & white tables, 15 black & white halftones, 12 b

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released October 9, 2014
ISBN13 9780415704649
Publishers Taylor & Francis Ltd
Genre Aspects (Academic) > Sociological
Pages 216
Dimensions 237 × 161 × 19 mm   ·   470 g
Language English  
Editor Marques, Lenia (Breda University of Applied Sciences, the Netherlands)
Editor Mein, Karen (Breda University of Applied Sciences, the Netherlands)
Editor Richards, Greg (Tilburg University, the Netherlands)

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