Rural Festivals and Rural Cultural Spaces Creation: A Case Study of the “Yim Tin Tsai Arts Festival”

Abstract

The “Yim Tin Tsai Arts Festival”, a three-year artistic program, represents a pioneering effort to revitalize rural areas using art as a catalyst. This initiative is designed to explore and address various social issues arising from urbanizing. While rural festivals, including the “Yim Tin Tsai Arts Festival”, play a pivotal role in promoting regional economic development through the creation of cultural spaces, they face the challenge of homogenizing their tourism destination image. This article applies design strategy concepts to explore the impact of rural festivals and cultural spaces on the cultural benefits of the host region, using the “Yim Tin Tsai Arts Festival” in Hong Kong as a case study. Utilizing methods such as desk research and data analysis, this study examines and discusses the significant issues within the field of research regarding the influence of rural festivals and cultural space development. Furthermore, we present the following research focus and development directions for the study of the impact of rural festivals and cultural space development.