Academic Workshop
Granz, Austria: 11th-12th of October, 2016
The aim of this scientific workshop is to discuss the state-of-the-art on concepts of Industrial Culture and its role for regional development.The INTERREG project “InduCult2.0” brings together regions with a distinct industrial past and present, situated outside major agglomeration areas in Central Europe. In recent years, all of them have undergone deep transformation processes due to automation, adaptation to globalized production patterns and the opening of markets in the former state-led economies. The long economic predominance of industrial production has brought about a particular cultural setting in the project partners’ territories. It is made up of certain skills, attitudes, traditions as well as tangible monuments and artefacts. However, these regions are usually considered culturally less attractive and they are not utilizing the existing industrial culture to their full development potential.
Results of this workshop will be published as an edited volume or special issue of a peer-reviewed journal. The workshop takes place in the frame of the InduCult2.0 project co-funded by ERDF via the Interreg Central Europe programme. The event will be jointly hosted by the Department of Geography and Regional Science at the University of Graz (Austria) and the Leibniz Institute of Regional Geography (Leipzig, Germany).
Registration Deadline: 15th September, 2016. Please find the registration form here.
Please contact Jörn Harfst at j.harfst@uni-graz.at or +43 316 380-5147 for further information
