Pattern Scenarios for Non-Permanent Exhibition Tourism of Water-Environmental Art in Water-Related Heritage Sites: The South Holland Waterdriehoek as an Example

Hosting non-permanent art exhibitions in various built heritage sites is increasingly becoming a popular form of heritage tourism. Around the world, practices combining art curation with integrated management and adaptive reuse of heritage are emerging. This paper aims to synthesize the existing methods and experiences of this form of heritage tourism, and explores a potential pattern for its application to water-related heritage sites, which have received increasing attention in recent decades. It proposes the concept of water-environmental art as the core of this pattern, aligning it with water-related heritage and complementing the existing environmental art types within heritage-art projects. Using the Waterdriehoek area in South Holland as a case study for this pattern, the paper discusses the spatial structure of non-permanent art exhibitions in water-related heritage sites and examines the interaction and curatorial potential between water-environmental art and different types of water-related built heritage. Additionally, it provides a framework for applying the discussed pattern to other water-related heritage sites.