This book includes papers presented at the 6th Arte-Polis International Conference. The theme of the conference was "Imagining Experiences: Creative Tourism and the Making of Place", and the book brings together studies based on lessons-learned, research and critical reviews related to creative tourism and reflections on placemaking. Covering a broad range of topics, including cultural and experiential perceptions of landscape, sustainable design, urban and rural planning, traditional and vernacular environment, public realm, thematic tourism, as well as heritage preservation and management, it discusses how issues of tourism shape our understanding of and discourse on architecture and landscapes. The book serves as an invitation to more participatory and polyphonic dialogues in the field of architecture, art and planning.
About the Author: Christopher Silver is a Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, and past dean of the College of Design, Construction and Planning at the University of Florida. He is a 3-time Fulbright lecturer in Indonesia, including two at the Institute of Technology, Bandung. He is author of "Planning the Megacity: Jakarta in the Twentieth Century" and a forthcoming book on water management in Jakarta over the past 400 years. Two new books, "Urban Planning Education: Beginnings, Global Movement and Future Prospects" (Springer 2017), with Andrea Frank, and "Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning: The Right to the City" (Routledge 2017) with Robert Freestone and Christophe Demaziere are in production. He has been an Editor and member of the Advisory Board of Arte-Polis, co-editor of the Journal of the American Planning Association, and is the Founding (and now past) Editor of the Journal of Planning History.
Lénia Marques is a Senior Lecturer in Events and Leisure at Bournemouth University in the United Kingdom, and is a member of the Board of Directors of the World Leisure Organization. She is the co-author of "Event Design: Social perspectives and practices" (2015) and "Exploring Creative Tourism" (2012), a special issue of the Journal of Tourism Consumption and Practice. She was Principal Investigator in the projects "Social Interaction in the Events Experience (2016)" and "Creative Districts around the World" (2014). Her current research focuses on innovation and creativity in events, leisure and tourism.
Himasari Hanan is a senior lecturer at the Department of Architecture, Urban Design, and Landscape Architecture, Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB). She is member of the committee for Research and Community Services at ITB. She has been in the Steering Committee of Arte-Polis since 2006 till present (2016). She is also reviewer of the Asian Journal of Environment-Behaviour Studies (ajE-Bs), Journal of ASIAN Behavioral Studies, ARTS, and Journal of Indonesian Built Environment.
Indah Widiastuti is a lecturer at the Department of Architecture, Institut Teknologi Bandung. She has been involved in Arte-Polis conferences four times since its initiation in 2006 in her capacity as convener (in Arte-Polis 1, 4, 5 and 6) and Editor of the proceedings of Arte-Polis 5 and 6. She was involved also a reviewer for the Journal of Indonesian Built Environment.
