Supertourism*

The 12 slides of Supertourism* /

The 12 slides are organized in three groups, following the conceptual distances and programmatic tools mentioned herein.

The first slides introduce the notion of distances as an instrument of conceptual rendering of the territorial analysis. While slide 2 diagramatically explains the intertwined and complementary relationship among all the distances, the subsequent slides depict the specificities of each distance and the instruments developed to articulate them.

Slides 05 to 11 deal with the operational tools or specific projects developed to put into action the fourth distance. These six operations are intended as examples of a broader field of possible actions. That having been said, these six tools are indicative rather than totalizing. For it is in the nature of the land-factory tools to be open, expansive, and embracing. They constitute, nonetheless, a primary battery of possible morphings, a generative matrix of a yet-to-be.
Although consistent as a whole, their aim is not at all holistic, and their displacements toward the edges of the operative field constitutes a disciplinary constriction rather than a real one. Following this speculative organizational pattern, 06, 07, and 08 are embedded in an inherent site-seduction underground mood, while 09, 10, and 11 introduces a more productive and spectacular landscape.

Slide 12, makes an explicit claim for a ‘yet-to-be’, an open-ended excursus in the yet unstable grounds of a world of Supertourism*. If classical tourism, and the tourist as subject, emerged at the beginning of the XX Century concomitantly with the urban life, the museum and the cinema, how should we re-assess the meaning of the word and turn it into a both meaningful and fruitful definition? Following this line of thoughts is that we proposed the term Supertourism* to designate a contemporary way of tourism that is profoundly different from the original mainly voyeuristic tourist, yet sharing a similar adventurous enthusiasm for the unknown or occasionally exotic.

Supertourism* claims for a flexible territorial substratum capable of energetic exchanges and continuous re-shapings, for it is necessary to rapidly re-locate new fluxes and unpredictable detours. Supertourism* somehow effectively connects with a superlandscape: that endlessly receptive substratum.