Tomorrowland: imaginações geográficas, corporeidade e a perspectiva experiencial do lugar festivo

Abstract

This investigation is nestled in the interface between humanist cultural geography and the so-called new cultural geography in order to research Tomorrowland festival from the imagined feelings created, lived and shared by the participants in their complex interactions in place. It is theoretically based on existentialist and meanings philosophies and, in the field, on qualitative research methodologies on partying from phenomenological approaches and empirical research, investing in the interpretative search referring to possible present meanings, and in constant (re) constructions, acting and influencing connections and relations of these individuals with the place in the multiple temporalities associated with partying. The festival, understood in the context of luxury consumption in the Age of Experiences, is interpreted as an imagined world (known) bodily and experienced as an event by festival-goers. The phenomenological approach makes it possible to combine the geographical gaze with the ways of seeing and feeling the festival so that we can present ourselves to each other. The considerations of the study point to the plurality of (festive)-worldly ways of being, highlighting the participation of geographical imaginations in the construction of the itineraries and spatial trajectories of festive bodies in place, as well as influencing experiences and transcendences in place of festive lives of the people of Tomorrow