Botond Vitos – Surveying EuroBurners: Regionals, Values & Motivations

The Burning Progeny project is a four-year collaborative multisited ethnography focused on the European adaptation of Burning Man, which also includes two mixed-methods (quantitative and qualitative) surveys conducted among Euroburners in 2014 and 2017. The presentation reports some of the findings from the qualitative survey components measuring Burner values, motivations and identifications. My starting inquiry is: why are the participants attending European Regionals; what do they gain from visiting these events? Relating to these questions, the second focus of the presentation is on the way Burner values may ignite changes in the way of life of the respondents and lead to the transposition of the Ten Principles into daily life.