Participatory landscape designing for tourism planning: the case of Murter Island, Croatia

This chapter argues that tourism planning could benefit from taking into account the plurality of landscape comprehensions of local stakeholders that might inform processes of landscape designing. The landscape designing project was composed of four phases. The first phase of the project had an exploratory character and consisted of an analysis of landscape and tourism on the island. Whereas the students worked independently as 'authorities' in the first phase, an important role was reserved for a participatory workshop in March 2011 during the second phase of the project focusing on idea and concept development. In the third phase, in the Netherlands, the students elaborated the two most favourable – sustainability – scenarios into more detailed landscape designs for three sites which represented the most pressing issues on the island as defined by the workshop participants. In the last phase the students translated the location specific designs into general design principles that could be applied to other sites with similar issues.