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Hauntological atmospheres of the UK high street: Consuming Manchester's Halloween in the City

Publication . Silva, Diogo Gaspar; Ntounis, Nikos; Paiva, Daniel

This paper introduces a novel perspective on the production and consumption of high street atmospheres amidst the prevailing narratives of its impending decline and death. We explore how high street atmospheres are continually repositioned across past, present and future elements, experiences and narratives that are in constant tension with one another. We argue that these emergent tensions create a unique potential for atmospheric production that has a spectral, post-nostalgic element to the high street experience. Drawing on walking methods, semi-structured interviews with atmosphere curators and high street users and documentary analysis, this paper uses the case of Manchester Business Improvement District's Halloween in the City event to examine these tensions in the high street. In so doing, it introduces the concept of hauntological atmospheres to deconstruct and showcase how the legacies of the past still exert a powerful affective influence in the design, staging and performance of present atmospheres and experiences of the high street.

2025Journal article

Open access

Digital storytelling and hopeful last chance tourism experiences

Publication . Paiva, Daniel; Carvalho, Liliana; Brito-henriques, Eduardo; Sousa, Ana Matilde; Soares, A.L.; Azambuja, Sónia Talhé

ast chance tourism, which can be described as the practice of tour-ism in environmentally damaged or threatened spaces, is an emerg-ing trend that has been considered problematic due to the pressure that it places on already fragile environments. this article explores the possibilities of turning last chance tourism experiences into hope-ful tourism experiences, by creating emotionally driven last chance tourism experiences in controlled and safe environments through digital storytelling. We draw on literature on transformative, hopeful and flourishing tourism to argue that last chance experiences provide unique opportunities for eliciting reflection among tourists and pro-mote a greater environmental awareness if they are driven by emo-tionally engaging narratives. Our study explores the outcomes of an experiment conducted at the ajuda Botanical Garden (lisbon, Portugal) with a futuristic mixed-reality game that places users as members of a scientific expedition looking for plants that have become extinct in the twenty-second century. the results of this study show how the game’s last chance narrative generated contra-dictory, mixed feelings among the participants, which ultimately led to hopeful existential reflection about nature conservation action. With this in mind, we reflect on the potential of transformative last chance tourism experiences guided by digital narratives.

2023Journal article

Open access

Biodeteção Móvel Participativa para o Desenho Urbano

Publication . Paiva, Daniel; Cachinho, Herculano; Estevens, Ana; Gonçalves, Ana; Ferreira, Daniela; Brito-Henriques, Eduardo; Boavida-Portugal, Inês; Rodrigues, Nuno; Pedro, Tomás; Equipa UrBio

Este guia foi especialmente desenvolvido para urbanistas interessados em aplicar metodologias de desenho urbano participativas para tornar as cidades em que trabalham mais sensíveis às emoções dos seus habitantes. A metodologia que se apresenta consiste na introdução de técnicas de biodeteção móvel, que nos oferecem informação sobre o estado fisiológico e emocional dos habitantes, em métodos participativos reconhecidos em análise e design urbano. Esta metodologia é recomendada para implementação em projetos de regeneração de escala local, nomeadamente ao nível de praças e ruas, em que a dimensão experiencial é importante, como é o caso de espaços de consumo ou turismo.

2023Other

Open access

Introducing biosensing techniques in urban geography fieldwork activities with students

Publication . Paiva, Daniel; Mantey, Dorota; Silva, Márcia; Ferreira, Daniela; Boavida-Portugal, Inês; Cachinho, Herculano

While biosensing is becoming a popular tool among urban geogra-phers to address the emotional experience of the urban environ-ment, it is also posing significant challenges, as its applicationdemands expertise on technology and human physiology that isnot part of regular curricula in geography courses. Despite this,there is little exploration of how to teach biosensing to urbangeography students. This paper responds to this gap by exploringhow undergraduate urban geography students respond to theintroduction of biosensing techniques in urban geography field-work. Empirically, we draw on two case studies in a European(Warsaw, Poland) and a South American (Cuiaba, Brazil) context.Our findings show how the introduction of biosensing leverageda greater engagement with the body-environment relation in urbanspace, but also sparked a series of technical, methodological, andanalytical challenges for students. With this, we contribute to cur-rent knowledge on the introduction of mobile technologies ingeographical fieldwork. We conclude the paper by providingrecommendations for biosensing training for geographers andfuture research paths on this topic.

2025Journal article

Restricted access

Manual de Métodos Qualitativos em Geografia

Publication . Paiva, Daniel

Este manual providencia uma introdução ao uso de métodos qualitativos em investigação geográfica, tendo sido pensado para oferecer aos estudantes uma primeira janela para a significativa diversidade destes métodos. A partir da perspetiva da aplicação dos métodos qualitativos na ciência geográfica, o manual aborda o processo de investigação científica, a preparação do trabalho de campo, e os principais métodos de recolha e interpretação de dados qualitativos.

2024Book

Open access