These days are an in-depth study session to create a platform for cross-sectoral knowledge composition and to generate collective research on the impact of tourism on the territory.
This project is supported by the Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation. It joins Casa Planas' own programme with its residencies from the Uncovering Archive programme, which is supported by the Goethe-Institut, Euroregion, Teatre Principal and local public administrations.
Visuals: All coasts possible, Sergio Monje
Place: Casa Planas
Av. Sant Ferran 21, 07011 Palma
Limited capacity
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Program
WEDNESDAY 5 JUNE 2024
10 am. Presentación del programa, metodología de trabajo, objetivos. Presenta Marina Planas.
10.30 – 11 h. Table 1: Museums, tourism and energetic humanities. Pablo Martínez.
11 – 12 h. Debate session. Moderated by Alelí Mirelman.
12.30 – 13 h. Table 2: Chronic emergencies. Ivan Murray.
13 – 14 h. Debate session.
5 pm. Photo-walk. Tour with Nora Müller and Macià Blázquez around Platja de Palma.
THURSDAY 6 JUNE 2024
10.30 am. Análisis de la sesión anterior, propuestas de metodología del grupo de estudio.
11 – 11.30 am. Table 3: Curatorial notes for outlining a possible route for ecosocial transition. Blanca de la Torre.
11.30 am – 12.30 pm. Debate session.
1 – 1.30 pm. Table 4: Territory and artistic practice. Fernando Dory.
1.30 – 2.30 pm. Debate session.
5.30 pm. Tour of the Planas Archive and Uncovering Archive exhibition at Casa Planas.
FRIDAY 7 JUNE 2024
11 – 11.30 am. Table 5: Struggles and resistance. The right to the city.. Margalida Ramis.
11.30 am – 12.30 pm. Debate session.
1 – 1.30 pm. Table 6: Transformations. Ernest Cañada.
1.30 – 2.30 pm. Debate session.
2.30 – 3 pm. Assessment of the conferences and expectations for the 2025 congress.
FULL DETAILED PROGRAMME.
Speakers
Pablo Martínez
PhD in Art History with a research project on the images of the masses based on the funeral of the anarchist Buenaventura Durruti. He works as a researcher Margarita Salas (2023-2024) at the Complutense University of Madrid. Over the last decade his work has attempted to challenge the limits of the museum in order to imagine an ecosocial institutionality. He has worked as a researcher at CSIC (2022), has been Director of Programmes at MACBA (2016-2021), Head of Education and Public Activities at CA2M (2009-2016) and Associate Professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts at UCM (2012-2015).
Ivan Murray
PhD in Geography from the Universitat de les Illes Balears and MSc in Environmental Sustainability from the University of Edinburgh. He is a lecturer in the Department of Geography at the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB). Since the academic year 2002-2003, he has been teaching at the UIB in subjects such as Sustainable Tourism, Geography of Tourism, Cartographic Design, Spatial Analysis, and Population Geography, among others. His lines of research aim to combine political ecology, political economy, ecological economics, and radical geography. We can highlight the following publications: Capitalisme i turisme a Espanya. Del "miracle econòmic" a la "gran crisi"(2015); Turistificación global. Perspectives crítiques en turisme (2019); Tourism and Degrowth. Towards a Truly Sustainable Tourism (2020); #TourismPostCOVID19. Lockdown Touristification (2021); Malestar en la turistificación. Pensament crític per a una transformació del turisme (2023).
Blanca de la Torre
Exhibition curator, project manager, PhD in Fine Arts, art historian, and researcher whose work is at the intersection between visual arts, political ecology, and sustainable creative practices. She is currently Chief Curator of the Helsinki Biennial (Finland) and Artistic Director of ISLA. She was Chief Curator of the 15th International Biennial of Cuenca, Ecuador, and artistic co-director of the Overview Effect Project at the MoCAB Museum in Belgrade and Con los pies en la T(t)ierra at CAAM, Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, where she is also in charge of the Sustainable Workshop.
Fernando García-Dory
Today, he works between culture and nature. He manifests himself in multiple contexts, from the landscape and rurality to desires and expectations related to identity, crisis, utopia, and the potential for social change. After studying Art and Rural Sociology, he is preparing for his PhD in Agroecology. Interested in the harmonic complexity of biological forms and processes, his work addresses connections and cooperation, from microorganisms to social systems, and from traditional art languages such as drawing to collaborative agroecological projects, actions, and cooperatives. His work has been exhibited at Tensta Konsthall (Stockholm), Museo Reina Sofía (Madrid), and SFMOMA (San Francisco). He participated in the Athens, Lisbon, Gwangju, and Jeju Biennials, as well as Documenta 13. He is a member of the Conseil des Formes (Paris) and a board member of the World Alliance of Nomadic Shepherds. Since 2009 he has been developing the INLAND_Campo Adentro project.
Margalida Maria Ramis Sastre
With more than 20 years of experience in advocacy work and campaign coordination, she has a degree in Physical Sciences from the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB). She began her third-cycle studies at the Sustainability and Territory Research Group. Since 2017 she has been working for the environmental organization GOB as spokesperson and head of the Resources, Territory, and Ecosocial Transition Area. She specializes in the analysis and critique of the economic model of tourism specialization in the Balearic Islands from the perspective of social and political ecology. In addition, her work focuses on political advocacy in the field of eco-social transition. She is also trained in feminist urbanism and ecofeminism as tools of analysis, thought, and eco-social transformation.
Ernest Cañada
PhD in Geography with a research on the tensions between exclusion and inclusion in tourism development carried out between Spain and Central America. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of the Balearic Islands with the Margarita Salas programme (2021-2024). In 2008 he was the founder of Alba Sud, an independent centre for research in tourism from critical perspectives, and its coordinator until 2020. His research has focused on the field of tourism on both the analysis of labour and the construction of tourism proposals of a post-capitalist nature.
Research team
Marina Planas. Researcher, visual artist and Director of Casa Planas.
Alelí Mirelman. Researcher on image and tourism. Director of the COSTA Observatory.
Andrea Camp. Communication Department of Casa Planas.
Jaume Reus. PhD in art history and cultural manager.
Belén Iniesta. Artist and visual researcher.
Ivan Murray. Lecturer at the UIB. Research in critical geography of tourism, political ecology and ecological economics.
Laia Ventayol. Researcher and visual artist.
Guillem Aloy. Architect and researcher in theory and history of architecture.
Carlos Almela. Dos spotters collective.
Carlos Alonso. WDNA CEO.
Guillem Colom. Professor of Hispanic Studies at the University of Glasgow.
Margalida Ramis. Spokesperson for GOB.
Pablo Martínez. Member of the research group Estética Fósil.
Ernest Cañada. Founder of AlbaSud.
Fernando Dory. Founder of INLAND.
Blanca de la Torre. Curator of exhibitions and researcher of political ecology.
Macià Blàzquez. Member of the research group GIST of UIB.
Margarita Novo. Member of the research group GIST of UIB.
Miquel Barceló. Researcher.
Patricia Almarcegui. Orientalist and expert in travel literature.
Burak Korkmaz. Artist and researcher.
Monica Fuster. Visual artist, researcher and mediator.
