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As more and more universities move away from traditional examinations as the primary tool for measuring student performance, artwork produced by students as a means of grade attainment in programmes outside the traditional scope of graphic and/or fine art courses are beginning to emerge worldwide. When students are tasked with capturing the essence of unique places on the cusp of tourism development via hand-drawn artwork, the resultant creations are both a by-product of academic tourism that arises from organised student field trips and also a potentially new, personalized and contemporary form of art that captures the spirit of emerging tourist destinations that would otherwise continue to languish outside the ‘tourist gaze’. This chapter describes how a contrasting, ‘students’ gaze’ captured the essence of a centuries-old former gold-mining village in rural Malaysia. Via artwork originally produced for academic submissions, it translates the contemporary narrative of a unique community into tangible form, showing that tourists can in fact create souvenirs to represent historically-significant communities, thus helping their identity evolve into heritage. |
