eventscape

From event +‎ -scape.

eventscape (plural eventscapes)

1. (cultural anthropology) A set of locations (with associated actions and events) that jointly provide the setting for and represent a culturally important narrative.
   • 2001, Bulletin of the High Plains Regional Society for Applied Anthropology:

     For many American Indians there are six nested levels including, from broadest to narrowest spatial scale: eventscapes, Holy Lands, songscapes, regional landscapes, ecoscapes, and landmarks.

   • 2009, Teresita Majewski, David Gaimster, International Handbook of Historical Archaeology, →ISBN, page 61:

     The internment of eventscape is instrumental in incorporating new generations of Japanese Americans into the internment story.

   • 2017, Alicia Caporaso, Formation Processes of Maritime Archaeological Landscapes, →ISBN:

     Whether this wreck site represents the remains of Groningen or not is still unknown, and perhaps will never be known, but it illustrates an event in the dramatic historical eventscape of coastal Elmina.

2. (tourism) A location viewed as the venue for a public event.
   • 2014, Stephen Page, Joanne Connell, The Routledge Handbook of Events, →ISBN, page 406:

     By the 1950s, the eventscapes of Vancouver's Chinatown were indeed becoming mainstream attractions.

   • 2015, Andrew Smith, Events in the City: Using public spaces as event venues, →ISBN, page 50:

     Using outdoor spaces for events generates media coverage of identifiable cityscapes and it dramatises them, creating eventscapes.

   • 2015, Ullrich Kockel, Máiréad Nic Craith, Jonas Frykman, A Companion to the Anthropology of Europe, →ISBN, page 346:

     There are a number of studies of the tourist consumption of cities as eventscapes that illustrate how a European matrix of perfect “citiness” has influenced not only travelers, but city planners, brand-makers, and local politicians, who learned to see their city through the tourist mode of consumption (see Willim 2005; Marling and Zerlang 2007).