Summer exhibition, Arion Art Group
(2022)
Exhibition / Performance
Todd, L. (2022). Summer exhibition, Arion Art Group. [Fine Art Painting, Drawing]. Exhibited at The Life Room, Edinburgh. 19 August 2022 - 30 August 2022. (Unpublished)
All Outputs (60)
With Tourists: The intersection of gazing with arts-based research, as artist, researcher, and viewer (2022)
Presentation / Conference
Todd, L. (2022, June). With Tourists: The intersection of gazing with arts-based research, as artist, researcher, and viewer. Paper presented at Critical Tourism Studies IX: With in Dangerous Times, Mao, MenorcaMy presentation extends the existing photographically framed understanding of the tourist gaze (Urry & Larsen, 2011) through arts-based research. There is much research devoted to the ocular nature of tourism as a set of visual practices, and consequ... Read More about With Tourists: The intersection of gazing with arts-based research, as artist, researcher, and viewer.
Arion Art Group exhibition of current work (2022)
Exhibition / Performance
Todd, L. Arion Art Group exhibition of current work. [Fine Art Painting and Drawing]. Exhibited at St Margaret’s House, Edinburgh. 15 June 2022 - 19 June 2022. (Unpublished)
Arts-based research and the intersected tourist gaze (2022)
Presentation / Conference
Todd, L. (2022, June). Arts-based research and the intersected tourist gaze. Paper presented at Future Visualities: Visual Methods & Ethnography in Interdisciplinary Research Symposium, Edinburgh Napier University, EdinburghThere is an extant of research devoted to the ocular nature of tourism as a set of visual practices, and accordingly, to the tourist gaze thesis (Urry & Larsen, 2011). Within this construct, it is suggested that tourists’ and others’ visual practices... Read More about Arts-based research and the intersected tourist gaze.
Online walking and mapping: understanding residents’ engagement with Edinburgh’s festival city spaces and places (2022)
Presentation / Conference
Todd, L. (2022, May). Online walking and mapping: understanding residents’ engagement with Edinburgh’s festival city spaces and places. Paper presented at CHME 2022: The Human Touch in Hospitality, Edinburgh Napier University, EdinburghMy paper presents an exploratory and collaborative public engagement with research study; and considers its potential to inform future festivals planning in Edinburgh as the festival city and a hospitable destination. My study involved a co-designed... Read More about Online walking and mapping: understanding residents’ engagement with Edinburgh’s festival city spaces and places.
Festival Soundings of Edinburgh, geolocated soundwalk (2021)
Digital Artefact
Todd, L. (2021). Festival Soundings of Edinburgh, geolocated soundwalk. [Geolocated Sound Walk]Festival Soundings of Edinburgh, geolocated soundwalk, developed via Walk, Listen, Create, in Collaboration with the Museum of Walking and available as part of Soundwalk September global festival (2021)
Festival Soundings of Edinburgh, online soundwalk event (2021)
Digital Artefact
Todd, L. (2021). Festival Soundings of Edinburgh, online soundwalk event. [Online sound walk event]Festival Soundings of Edinburgh, online soundwalk event, delivered as part of Soundwalk September global festival as a collaboration with the Museum of Walking (21st September 2021)
Arion Art group exhibition (2021)
Exhibition / Performance
Todd, L. (2021). Arion Art group exhibition. [Oil paintings, mixed media]. Exhibited at The Life Room Gallery, Edinburgh. 26 August 2021 - 30 September 2021. (Unpublished)Exhibition / Performance: Arion Art Group Exhibition: Exhibited 23 Original Paintings and related artwork Themed Around Visual Culture Of Tourism Research, In: Arion Art, Group Summer Exhibition, The Life Room Gallery, Edinburgh, 26 August 2021 - 30... Read More about Arion Art group exhibition.
Arion Art group exhibition (2021)
Exhibition / Performance
Todd, L. (2021). Arion Art group exhibition. [Oil paintings]. Exhibited at Edinburgh Palette, Edinburgh. 16 June 2021 - 26 June 2021. (Unpublished)Arion art group exhibition: Exhibited 24 original paintings themed around visual culture of tourism research, In: Arion Art, group exhibition, Edinburgh Palette, Edinburgh, 16 June 2021 - 26 June 2021.
Mapping the visual culture of Edinburgh’s festival city tourist gaze: drawing as autoethnography (2020)
Presentation / Conference
Todd, L. (2020, September). Mapping the visual culture of Edinburgh’s festival city tourist gaze: drawing as autoethnography. Paper presented at The Anthropology and Geography: Dialogues Past, Present and Future (Royal Anthropological Institute annual conference), OnlineToday, travel and tourism are increasingly becoming strategies for taking and sharing photographs. This is evidenced through the exponential growth of digital social media platforms as means of recording and displaying tourism settings and experience... Read More about Mapping the visual culture of Edinburgh’s festival city tourist gaze: drawing as autoethnography.
Negotiating privileged networks and exclusive mobilities: the case for a Deaf festival in Scotland’s festival city (2020)
Journal Article
Jamieson, K., & Todd, L. (2022). Negotiating privileged networks and exclusive mobilities: the case for a Deaf festival in Scotland’s festival city. Annals of Leisure Research, 25(1), 5-22. https://doi.org/10.1080/11745398.2020.1809478We explore the case for a Deaf festival in Edinburgh, the self-proclaimed 'world leading Festival City'. The formal recognition of British Sign Language in the BSL (Scotland) Act 2015 is paramount to the cultural and political context. Joining Englis... Read More about Negotiating privileged networks and exclusive mobilities: the case for a Deaf festival in Scotland’s festival city.
Semiotics of the festival city: exploring the visual culture of Edinburgh. . Paper presented at Special Track: Visual Tourism (2020)
Presentation / Conference
Todd, L., & Logan-McFarlane, A. (2020, September). Semiotics of the festival city: exploring the visual culture of Edinburgh. . Paper presented at Special Track: Visual Tourism. Paper presented at ATLAS annual conference 2020: Tourism as a driver of regional development and collaboration, OnlineThis paper presents emerging themes from our study of the semiotics that sustain the visual culture, consumption and place myth of Edinburgh, as the ‘world’s leading festival city’ (Festivals Edinburgh, 2020). Today Edinburgh hosts eleven internation... Read More about Semiotics of the festival city: exploring the visual culture of Edinburgh. . Paper presented at Special Track: Visual Tourism.
Semiotics of Edinburgh as the festival city: exploring visual representations of management and local community stakeholders (2020)
Presentation / Conference
Todd, L. (2020, September). Semiotics of Edinburgh as the festival city: exploring visual representations of management and local community stakeholders. Paper presented at Festivals and the City: The Festivalisation of Public Space, RGS-IBG Symposium sponsored by the Geographies of Leisure & Tourism Research Group, OnlineI will explore how two distinct strategic management and local community stakeholder groups engage with a festival city through their visual portrayals of festival spaces. Informed by festival city discourses and a hallmark event tourism stakeholder... Read More about Semiotics of Edinburgh as the festival city: exploring visual representations of management and local community stakeholders.
Semiotics of Edinburgh as the festival city: exploring management and community stakeholders’ visual representations of festival spaces (2020)
Presentation / Conference
Todd, L. (2020, September). Semiotics of Edinburgh as the festival city: exploring management and community stakeholders’ visual representations of festival spaces. Paper presented at Festivals and the City: The Festivalisation of Public Space, RGS-IBG Symposium, LondonI will explore how two distinct strategic management and local community stakeholder groups engage with a festival city through their visual portrayals of festival spaces. Informed by festival city discourses and a hallmark event tourism stakeholder... Read More about Semiotics of Edinburgh as the festival city: exploring management and community stakeholders’ visual representations of festival spaces.
Performing Tourism in Edinburgh, Chroma13a Visual Art Exhibition, Torrance Gallery, Edinburgh (2020)
Exhibition / Performance
Todd, L. Performing Tourism in Edinburgh, Chroma13a Visual Art Exhibition, Torrance Gallery, Edinburgh. [Painting]. 4 July 2020. (Unpublished)My visual artwork will be exhibited in this group exhibition. This work has been developed around the theme of my research: performing tourism in Edinburgh as the festival city.
The transgressive festival imagination and the idealisation of reversal (2019)
Journal Article
Jamieson, K., & Todd, L. (2021). The transgressive festival imagination and the idealisation of reversal. Leisure Studies, 40(1), 57-68. https://doi.org/10.1080/02614367.2019.1693090To consider the festival's potential as an activist tactic may seem naïve and disconnected from the colonising practices of event tourism. However, today's immersive and curated festival experiences are indebted to a wider festival imagination: a spa... Read More about The transgressive festival imagination and the idealisation of reversal.
Iconicity and Myth-Making: Exploring visual representations of Edinburgh as the original ‘festival city’ (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Todd, L., & Logan-McFarlane, A. (2019, September). Iconicity and Myth-Making: Exploring visual representations of Edinburgh as the original ‘festival city’. Paper presented at Academy of Marketing, 18th annual colloquium on Arts, Heritage, Nonprofit & Social Marketing, University of Stirling
City sites and sights: using artists’ approaches in subverting the tourist gaze (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Todd, L. (2019, April). City sites and sights: using artists’ approaches in subverting the tourist gaze. Paper presented at Visual Methods & Ethnography in Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series, Edinburgh Napier UniversityIncreasingly, travel and tourism practices have become a strategy for taking and sharing photographs. This is particularly apparent through the exponential growth of digital social media platforms as means of recording and displaying tourism settings... Read More about City sites and sights: using artists’ approaches in subverting the tourist gaze.
'Edinburgh the ‘festival city’ and hallmark event tourism': invited research lecture and seminar (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Todd, L. (2018, October). 'Edinburgh the ‘festival city’ and hallmark event tourism': invited research lecture and seminar. Presented at Leisure Talks' series, Manchester Institute of Education, University of ManchesterThe ‘festival city’ has become a topic of theoretical debate within tourism and events research. In strategic destination management practice a festival city presents a significant and sustained portfolio of planned festivals and events as a means of... Read More about 'Edinburgh the ‘festival city’ and hallmark event tourism': invited research lecture and seminar.
Visualising the ‘festival city’: towards a stakeholder semiotic framework (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Todd, L. (2018, August). Visualising the ‘festival city’: towards a stakeholder semiotic framework. Paper presented at Inclusive Innovation for Enhanced Local Experience, British Council and Newton Fund ‘Researcher Links’, Phuket Graceland Resort & Spa, Phuket, ThailandNo abstract available.