ABSTRACT

Pafos’s ‘Open Air Factory’ strategy for the 2017 ECoC was a simple yet imaginative concept born out of a strong desire to re-draw the city’s small-town character, diversify its economy, and steer social and cultural development along new paths. In order to counter the city’s limited economic resources and cultural infrastructure, the event’s vision was based on the two assets that Pafos has in abundance: a rich cultural heritage and a community eager for change. This paper tracks the uneven path of community involvement during the ECoC bidding, planning, implementation and post-implementation stages, and looks at urban heritage as the shared field of convergence for the multiple modes and degrees of participation in the realization of a mega-event. The city’s small size allows for original insights into the opportunities and limitations of the intersections between community, heritage and scale in the case of mega-event-based urban regeneration.

摘要

帕福斯为 2017 年 ECoC 制定的“露天工厂”战略是一个简单而富有想象力的概念，它源于一种强烈的愿望，即重新描绘这座城市的小镇特征，实现经济多元化，并沿着新的道路引导社会和文化发展。为了应对城市有限的经济资源和文化基础设施，该活动的愿景是基于帕福斯拥有的两大资产：丰富的文化遗产和渴望变革的社区。本文追踪 ECoC 招标、规划、实施和实施后阶段社区参与的不平衡路径，并将城市遗产视为实现大型活动的多种参与模式和程度的共享领域.