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Three short films on the form and understanding of 'community and cultural mapping' are now available via the Euromed Heritage website. Click the following link and have a private viewing!

 http://www.euromedheritage.net/intern.cfm?menuID=16&submenuID=21&subsubmenuID=18

The films were shot by MVA friend and associate Chris MALAPITAN during an enjoyable 3 day training workshop that was generously hosted by the University of Nicosia in Cyprus.

In the height of the Mediterranean summer heat, London Met. helped to coordinate and deliver this fascinating event with the expert assistance of the following MVA colleagues:

David OFFICER -  INDEX, Cyprus

Youli TAKI – INDEX, Cyprus

Leonardo CHIESI - Università di Firenze

Andres LANG - Public Works

Haris PELLAPAISIOTIS - University of Nicosia

Cultural mapping is gaining widespread recognition as an important tool for cultural heritage management and for enhancing public participation and appropriation of heritage.  It is also a tool with significant potential for improving cultural policy making.  The workshop therefore introduced participants to a range of cultural mapping methods and applications, from well-established procedures to cutting-edge practice, and open up discussion for participants to consider its usefulness as a tool, and how it might be incorporated into their current and future practice. The workshop was delivered by established practitioners with international experience of a diverse range of approaches and applications.

Conventional established mapping approaches are being supplemented by creative approaches to public space by artists and architects, which can also become a way of turning mapping exercises into ‘events’ which attract public participation and result in innovative ways of capturing the dynamic flows of cultural space, as well as enhancing project impacts.