WHO ARE WE ?

CENTRE FOR REGIONAL AND TOURISM RESEARCH Development in peripheral areas

• Research• Consultancy work• Education

Economic analysis and modelling Tourism and Experience economyPeripheral areas/ Islands

PROJECT BACKGROUND

A FEW WORDS ABOUT BORNHOLM

• Population 42.000 +• Declining population• Aging population • Tourists annually: approx. 750.000• Tradition for arts and crafts• New tradition for quality regional foods• Bornholm’s different brands

• Residents´: Snow storms and grey hair• Traditional tourists’: beach recreation & sunshine

(commercialized)• Emerging: urban cool & creative energy• (non-commercialized)

INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL

BEACH PARTY

SVANEKE BEACHVOLLEY

’SOL OVER GUDHJEM’

GOURMET COMPETITION

WONDERFESTIWALL

THERE’S SOMETHING HAPPENING HERE

ON ONE HAND:• Demographic challenge: youth are moving away

ON THE OTHER HAND:

• A growing number of activities on Bornholm arranged by, and attended by youth, who have grown up on and moved from Bornholm.

THIS IS OUR POINT OF DEPARTURE

PROJECT QUESTIONS

• Which activities do youth who have moved away from Bornholm participate in on the island?

• Can we conceptualise these activities as a creative resource for Bornholm? How?

• To what extent and why is Bornholm chosen specifically as the place to be?

• What are the motives for the youths’ choice of Bornholm as the locality of their activities?

’PROJECT PARTNERS’

Participants:Arts and Crafts Association Bornholm - ACABRegional Municipality of Bornholm - BRK: new residents’ guide, Cultural coordinator, Demographic consultantCRT: Ph. D. student, researcher and project manager

Workshop and creative process consultantMapping developerProject partner from East IcelandProject Partner from Vesterålen

Wildcards:Student from Central Saint Martins College of Arts & Design, LondonStudent from Roskilde University/ youth-coordinator at BRK Film director and initiator of the event Wonderfestiwall Ph. D. Fellow, board member of the association ‘Baglandet’

MAIN ACTIVITIES IN THE PROJECT

OPEN-ENDED

Discourse

Visualization

EFFECTS

New perspectives & new discourses- From a traditional peripheral understanding focused on

loss of population to a new peripheral concept envisioning ex-locals’ activities as cultural and social resources. These resources support regional re-branding and local development.

Long-term effects- We truly wish this project to be a development project,

which is open-ended and in constant movement.

QUESTIONS?