本项目基于后现代地理学对微观事件空间和节事空间在中观社会和宏观文化中的发生与演化机制的关注，用多案例、多元质性的混合微观尺度分析方法，对事件空间进行理论研究，对节事空间进行实证研究。理论研究包括事件“概念史”研究、事件空间的嵌入性研究、基于“表征-氛围-意义”框架的事件本体的“事件性”研究，实证研究重点探讨节事空间的项目化生产、节事无形空间的结构及节事空间演化的动力及模式。项目的研究目标是在理论上增进后现代地理学对事件和节事现象的解释、改进其微观尺度分析方法的架构，在实践上探索微观事件和节事与社会文化进行互动的有效路径、为事件/节事业界的空间设计和空间管理提供理论参考。项目的研究具有发掘质性微观尺度分析对于后现代地理学的方法价值、尝试为后现代地理学时空间内容研究带来一些新课题的理论意义，以及发现后现代地理学事件空间研究的社会文化价值、对节事活动一些当前重要的实践课题做出积极回应的实践意义。

Paying systematic postmodern geographical (PG) attentions to the origin and evolution mechanism of micro-level and/or small-scale Event(al) Space (ES) and Festival & Special Event Space（FSES） under the background of middle-scale social space (SS) and macro-scale cultural space (CS), this project does theoretical ES researches & empirical FSES researches by emphasizing pluralistically qualitative-research-oriented Micro-level and/or Small-scale Analysis (QuaMLA/QuaSSA) and mixed-method research with multiple-cases-study. Based on the theoretical researches of the "event" concept history study, ES & PSES embeddedness study, and the event ontological "eventness" study by using a new analyzing framework of "representation - atmosphere - meaning", this project does empirical researches on the production, structure and evolution of the FSES, focusing on its project-oriented production process, the structure of its intangible space, and dynamics and model(s) of its space evolution. The theoretical goals of the research include to help PG to: (1) improve the interpretation of event and FSE phenomenon and/or "spectacle" using Debord's concept (Debord, G. 1994); and (2) optimize the structure of the QuaMLA/QuaSSA framework. The practical goals are: (1) to find the effective way(s) of interaction of micro-level/small-scale ES and/or FSES, middle-scale SS, and macro-scale CS; and (2) to make theoretically opinions on space design and space management for the event and/or FSE industry. The theoretical significances of the research are to find out the methodological value of QuaMLA/QuaSSA for PG, and to try to take some new theoretical space-time topics into PG fields of study. The practical significances of the project are to discover the social and cultural value for PG to research space-time contents, and to give positive respondence to some of the important operating issues for the event and/or FSE industry.