Topics:
- Overtourism & commodification: diagnosing authenticity loss
- Agency, equity & displacement: putting communities back in control
- Environmental pressures: footprints, buffers, and low-impact practice
- Implementation lab: capacity building, participatory M&E, ethical comms (+ MCQ)
Key Questions
- What early warning signs indicate commodification, loss of community agency, or environmental overload in your case?
- Which ethical and operational safeguards (consent, codes of conduct, limits/carrying capacity) are required?
- How should a participatory monitoring system with KPIs be designed to support adaptive management?
- What governance, financing, and communication commitments are essential to implement and scale the solution?
Exploring Case 6 Fado
Anchor facts to surface: Risks of commodification and “staged authenticity”; need for careful curation and community-led planning; examples of digital tools used responsibly. The case also references scholarship analyzing authenticity/emotion in reviews—useful for monitoring signals.
Guided questions
- What early warning signs of commodification or agency loss might appear in tourist-heavy districts?
- Where is the line between interpretation and staging, and who decides?
- Which safeguards (house rules, filming policies, capacity limits, benefit-sharing) are indispensable in Fado houses?
- How can digital tools (AR, virtual concerts, lyric apps) extend reach without displacing local control?
In-class activity (25–30 min)
- Risk-to-Safeguard Lab: Identify top 5 risks from the case (e.g., over-exposure of venues, tokenism, external control). For each, design 1 operational safeguard + 1 KPI (e.g., % of nights with community-led programming; share of revenue to artist fund). Share as a one-page “Fado Safeguard Pack.”
Digital activity (30–45 min)
- Ethics & Monitoring Toolkit:
- Draft a Code of Conduct for visitors and content creators (recording etiquette, consent signage, lyric translation protocols).
- Build a simple dashboard mock-up (Sheets/Data Studio) tracking authenticity signals (e.g., ratio of curated vs. “all-you-can-eat” shows; review keywords tied to emotion/respect). Use the case’s referenced literature cues on authenticity/emotions to seed keyword lists.
Optional cross-module digital add-ons
Twine interactive story: Branching narrative where learners make programming and ethics decisions for a Fado house and see impacts on KPIs/community trust.
Micro-video with reflection: 90-second clip explaining the ritual “Silêncio que se vai cantar o Fado,” followed by one reflective prompt in the LMS.