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Sustainable Development Research on Contemporary Art Intervening in Village Regional Regeneration

December 2017

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Hokkaido University

The article takes Japan Setouchi Triennale as A Case Study to anaylze and study its sustainable development from the aspect:"Contemporary Art Intervention", "Art Festival Tourism" and "Village Regional Regeneration". It also makes a survey on the problems existed in "art intervention in village" art tourism pattern to discuss the important role that art fetival played in local culture, the importance of promoting sustainable regional regeneration.

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