INB2IN Studio

UNIT 6 -2018/2019

Tutors & Coordinators:

Angela Kyriacou-Petrou, Architect, Assistant Professor, University of Nicosia

Maria Hadjisoteriou, Architect, Associate Professor, University of Nicosia

Tutors:

Yiorgos Hadjichristou, Architect, Professor, University of Nicosia

Site:

Coastal sites: from Larnaca to Famagusta area, from Polis to Akamas peninsular.

A tourist in your own city 

The unit explores the limitations of tourism that exploits the city and landscape as a product, neglecting its social and environmental complexity. Tourism is analysed as an opportunity for transformation and used as a tool for understanding the everyday life of urban space. Models that commodify urban spaces and transform them into stereotyped objects or souvenirs for easy touristic consumption are disassembled and a new identity is sought for.

The city which is devoted to tourism is often a ‘city-product’ that others have designed for consumption.

Through research and mapping a reformulation of urban realities and identities will emerge. Both the tourist and resident are seen as active agents that participate in the making of the city. Interactions between players, distributed networks, events and histories are looked for as points of fusion and opportunities for creative development. 

If it no longer seems so fitting to think about the city in terms of active producer (the policy maker) and passive consumer. Equally does it seem appropriate to think about the tourist and the local citizen as incompatible and opposing users as both would be participating in a common production of the city. (1)

1.  Commons-based Urbanism: Can Alicante Be a Case Study? Enrique Nieto