International Congress on Cultural Mapping: Linking Heritage (Tangible and Intangible) and Creative Tourism

It will be held at the University of Évora on November 29 and 30, 2018, the International Congress on Cultural Mapping: Linking Heritage (Tangible and Intangible) and Creative Tourism. 

Cultural mapping has been identified, included by UNESCO, as a significant tool to grasp the intangible and cultural diversity at large. Also known as cultural resource mapping, can be understood more than a research technique or tool to map tangible and intangible cultural assets, landscapes and peoples in territories. It has the power to promote the debate on spaces and places. It can be used to draw attention to significant resources and point out rising issues and possible engaging solutions that involve local communities though participatory, co-creation approaches. As a policy making tool, cultural mapping contents can be used to enhance place profiles and regeneration of cultural quarters and heritage sites. As an output, it can also become a tool which leads to new tourism development approaches, such as creative tourism.

The congress aims to provide a better understanding of how cultural mapping can propose actions that enhance the awareness of cultural identities, debate its implications for local development, community engagement and policymaking, including sustainable and creative tourism practices, and foster debate over its long-term results. 

The congress will be structured in two days. One is dedicated to the challenges of mapping ICH through conventional and alternative approaches. Besides a better dissemination of information resources available through databases online about intangible heritage: what is their impact? Who is using them, how, and for what purposes? Are they an end in itself or are they catalysing other initiatives? The second day is dedicated to the use of cultural mapping in tourism planning. The aim is to discuss the present state of the art of cultural mapping and its role in tourism development and heritage management practices. ​

 

For more information, please see the congress website here.

 

 

Organização: CIDEHUS - UÉvora | UNESCO Chair "Intangible Heritage and Traditional Know-How: Linking Heritage of the University of Évora | CES (Centre for Social Studies - University of Coimbra) | CREATOUR Project
De 29.11.2018 a 30.11.2018
09:00 | Colégio do Espírito Santo da Universidade de Évora | Sala 124
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