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Semiotics of Edinburgh’s Festival City Place-Myth: Management and Community Stakeholders’ Visual Representations of Festival Spaces (2022)
Book Chapter
Todd, L. (2022). Semiotics of Edinburgh’s Festival City Place-Myth: Management and Community Stakeholders’ Visual Representations of Festival Spaces. In A. Smith, G. Osborn, & B. Quinn (Eds.), Festivals and the City: The Contested Geographies of Urban Events (187-208). London: University of Westminster Press. https://doi.org/10.16997/book64.k

This chapter explores how two distinct strategic management and local community stakeholder groups engage with a festival city through their visual portrayals of spaces. Informed by festival city discourses and a hallmark event tourism stakeholder ty... Read More about Semiotics of Edinburgh’s Festival City Place-Myth: Management and Community Stakeholders’ Visual Representations of Festival Spaces.

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 (Unpublished)

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, Menorca

My 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 (Unpublished)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, Edinburgh

There 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, Edinburgh

My 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.