STREET ARTISTS IN EUROPE - Fondazione Fitzcarraldo

Street Artists in Europe
impacts of cultural events have been strongly emphasized by the media, or by the marketing
prospectuses of festivals and municipalities during the past few years. Cultural tourism is a
permanently increasing sector. It may thus seem evident that a street art event or festival, as any
other cultural activities should have an economic effect on the city, and namely in form of
attraction on cultural tourism.
4.5. Conclusions
When recapitulating the results of this third group of questions, one may admit that we obtained
a positive picture on the opinion of street artists and street art organisers concerning the main
impacts of their events in the city. The responses reflect the opinions of an ensemble of openminded
people, quite sensible for social and spatial problems of cities. The four sub-themes
(spatial, social, organisational and economic effects), have been acknowledged by them as being
almost of equally great importance. Yet a slight inclination has been shown up for social and
economic effects (26 and 24 positive answers totally), while spatial effects came out as less
emphasised but still important (20 positive answers). The less significant turned to be the role of
street arts as being a new element of cultural organisational life, or as contributing to cultural
services (only 13 positive answers) that absolutely explains the flexible and thus often
ephemeral character of street art events in the cities.
Table 11 - Recapitulating of effects
RECAPITULATING
SPATIAL
EFFECTS
SOCIAL
EFFECTS
200
ORGANISATIONAL
EFFECTS
Total number of positive answers* 20 26 13 24
*without the answers to the question: ‘is it a prime effect?’
5. Sustainability and future perspectives
ECONOMIC
EFFECTS
Question on the general sustainability and future perspectives of street arts is of course not
suitable in a questionnaire dealing explicitly with the questions on the role of street art in the
city. Nevertheless it is always important to give a short look on the future expectations of
interviewees. This questionnaire therefore only concentrated on the perspectives of the artists
and organisers concerning their activities within the city, and did not mean to analyse the
financial, political, or cultural perspectives of street art in general…
PE 375.307