Interviews of over 100 senior executives involved in thes. The main section deals with cultural mapping, its origins and its purposes and is illustrated with examples drawn from around the world. Integrating company cultures after a merger or acquisition. This is a time of coming together and taking the best that both organizations have to. After step 3, most executives stand back, trusting their teams to handle the details of the new organization and the transition plan. My thesis explores the strategic meaning of cultural resources. The mapping of indigenous cultural resources carried out by indigenous communities is a crucial step toward demonstrating that cultural diversity is a means to enrichment for society. Merging maps mapc2mapc provides two different ways to merge maps. The cultural mapping project of the heritage city of vigan.
In ontario, municipalities having made commitments to building cultural mapping systems include oakville, hamilton, vaughan and durham region. Cultural mapping toolkit arts health network canada. Artistic approaches to cultural mapping mapping has long informed the work of artists, particularly those involved in public works and socially engaged art practices. Sep 29, 2015 the culture mapping team schedules a series of 90minute sessions, one session with each group.
The key to leading the discussion is to allow it to be freeform. The particular kind of cultural mapping to be explained here is a method of describing the resources and assets of a specific community and the relationships between them. In addition, the process of arriving at something each group has in common involves going through all the things they dont have in common. Mapping of cultural heritage policies, programmes and activities latest update.
The publication is being overseen by an editorial team composed of prof. Produced a prototype for a cultural map of the greater greensboro area. The digitisation of cultural content, as well as methods and tools to increase access to european cultural heritage will also be explored. Unesco 5 cultural mapping manual part 1 what is cultural mapping. When working with high context cultures repeat yourself less, ask clarifying questions often and work on increasing your ability to read the air. Oct 22, 2018 dedicate the resources needed to create tools for facilitating cultural integration, measurement, and management. Cultural mapping is a systematic approach to defining and recording a communitys. Cultural mapping is a practical, participatory planning and develop. Pdf the field of arts and cultural planning and the aspirations of cultural. A model has been constructed to explain the process of leading the integration of organizational cultures.
Cultural issues in mergers and acquisitions leading through transition. At ihcda, we believe that growing indianas economy starts at home. The cultural mapping toolkit has been designed to take you through the entire mapping process, from creating an inventory to drawing up and presenting your map. Guidelines for leading the cultural mapping exercise and discussion the exercise cultural mapping works best when it is used like a game. A contemporary guide to cultural mapping an aseanaustralia perspective will be available in 2010 and will herald ausheritages first major publishing endeavour in association with the asean committee on culture and information. Cultural mapping, the company, was established in 2006 by jennifer joi field as a social venture. Using a threedimensional model of analysis i characterise two idealtypes of approach to culturalmapping in an analytical continuum. Towards building a framework for heritage conservation and sustainable development by associate professor eric babar zerrudo. The word culture has as many meanings as there are different cultures. Cultural mapping as a development tool sciencedirect. Cultural mapping is a mode of inquiry and a methodological tool in urban planning, cultural sustainability, and community development that makes visible the ways local stories, practices, relationships, memories, and rituals constitute places as meaningful locations. This paper explores the challenges and potential of cultural mapping to be used as a development tool. Each nsw council receives a printed copy of the book which is also available for download below. The culture mapping team schedules a series of 90minute sessions, one session with each group.
Pdf mapping cultural assets and evaluating significance. Data collection for survey was done via phone interviews and individual interviews. Its important that these groups are teams that know each other and work together on a regular basis. Introduction the issue of heritage and development has been a constant bone of contention for developing economies like the philippines. To me it seems cultural mapping would go as a section of cultural geography. The amazon conservation teams manual on the methodology of collabora tive cultural. Artistic approaches to cultural mapping mapping has long informed the work of artists, particularly those. The cultural web aligning your teams or organizations. Cultural mapping is a mode of inquiry and a methodological tool in urban planning, cultural sustainability, and community development that makes visible the ways local stories, practices. Cultural mapping, also known as cultural resource mapping or cultural landscape mapping, is the label organisations and people including unesco concerned about safeguarding cultural diversity give to a wide range of research techniques and tools used to map distinct peoples tangible and intangible cultural assets within local landscapes around the world. It is a vehicle for expressing and releasing the knowledge, creativity, and energy that lies within every group, regardless of its position or level within an organization. Once you have identified these strengths they can be utilised to create a wide variety of outcomes, as demonstrated by the stories in the case studies. Dedicate the resources needed to create tools for facilitating cultural integration, measurement, and management. The pdf mapping feature allows you to collect your data using a responsive online form and have the data stored digitally, in addition to having it generated as a pdf file.
Cultural mapping united nations educational, scientific. I propose to merge cultural mapping and cultural geography. Using the contrasting values described, think about where your own personal values fit and mark the appropriate box. In the end, cultural integration is about both sides adapting and celebrating the new culture that is born from the merger.
The related join method, uses merge internally for the indexonindex by default and columnsonindex join. This is a winwin situation where the data is both entered and stored digital, and a paper form can also be created based on that. Special attention needs to be given to a communitys intangible cultural heritage which is, by its very nature, extremely vulnerable, and in many cases, in danger of disappearing altogether. Maps are most often understood as the indispensable tools that help us navigate our physical world. Once the four municipalities had the opportunity to merge their databases. And while the mapping activity is valuable by itself, the second challenge was and continues to be to. Premerger due diligence will ferret out things that are measurable, with an emphasis on financial data. We propose to do this by explaining the basic techniques of cultural mapping and suggesting some possible applications at the local level. Cultural mapping is an action journey undertaken specifically to identify, investigate or reclaim your strengths, whether corporate or personal. It is intended to generate thoughts and conversations, and tocreate opportunities that could become available if community works together to. Cultural mapping towards more participative and pluralist. When working with low context cultures be as explicit as possible. Presentation delivered by sam coghlan, chief executive officer, stratford public library, municipal cultural planning partnership member.
While chances are that you are relatively high in one value and low on the. The amazon conservation teams manual on the methodology of collabora tive cultural mapping 2008 speaks with a certainty of purpose that has become. Jennifer has worked as a social entrepreneur since 1986 and has a longstanding commitment to facilitating cultural harmony such as cross sector relations. Using a threedimensional model of analysis i characterise two idealtypes of approach to cultural mapping in an analytical continuum. Its important that these groups are teams that know each other and work together on.
Cultural mapping findings cultural mapping is a systematic approach to defining and recording a communitys cultural assets. A contemporary guide to cultural mapping an aseanaustralia. Aug 03, 2012 exploring the use of cultural mapping in designing cultural experience model saad aqeel alzarooni spring 2010 slideshare uses cookies to improve functionality and performance, and to provide you with relevant advertising. A cultural mapping project by university of delaware students, faculty and partners, focusing on the eseeja nation a hunting, gathering and fishing people living in the amazonian region of peru has created a video documenting some of the indigenous peoples daily lives. Apr 08, 2009 presentation delivered by sam coghlan, chief executive officer, stratford public library, municipal cultural planning partnership member. The cultural mapping work undertaken during the culture plan process built on the strong mapping work completed by the cultural asset mapping working group struck by theniagara region culture.
The cultural mapping, cultural planning and public art toolkits include adaptable models, examples, and practical checklists for navigating and charting progress. The case studies have been written with the aim of making ideas and processes transferrable for any regional local authority, with the resource implications made clear. Leading integration of organizational cultures following. Mapping is merely an enablera means to a more important end. The most insightful cultural observers often are outsiders, because cultural givens are not implicit to them. As such, unesco will continue to support pilot projects at work in the field. If you have many maps and the destination is a mobile atlas or jnx. Reorganizations can be a useful management tool for finding new value and are often essential as. Exploring the use of cultural mapping linkedin slideshare.
Culture is used here in the context of identity, which can be either personal or corporate. Cultural mapping a process of collecting, recording, analyzing and synthesizing information in order to describe the cultural resources, networks, links and patterns of usage of a given community or group. A partnership between 00 legacies now and creative city network of canada. Using it, you can expose cultural assumptions and practices, and set to work aligning organizational elements with one another, and with your strategy.
A major information set consisting of references, cultural mapping website examples, coding information, the crowdsourcing survey, and data sources enables additional avenues of inquiry to be pursued. Mapping cultural assets and evaluating significance. Promotion of cultural diversity, culture in the eu external relations and mobility. The first case that i will use for the analysis of cultural mapping as a development tool is representative of a topdown approach. Cultural mapping united nations educational, scientific and. The city of toronto has partnered with the martin prosperity. Cultural mapping is a systematic tool to involve communities in the identification and recording of local cultural assets, with the implication that this knowledge will then be used to inform collective strategies, planning processes, or other initiatives. Ausheritage has had a strong interest in cultural mapping since 2002. Everyone can agree that all hoosiers should have the opportunity to live in safe, affordable, goodquality housing in economically stable communities. As early as 1949, munro attempted to merge a philosophical and. Use the mapmerge menu item to merge two maps if they are both small enough to fit in memory or if you want to overlay detail from one to the other. So the exercise helps to illuminate difference as well.
Cultural mapping was an essential step in the development of the niagara culture plan. Small cities, deep mapping and sustainable futures is a mapping project and symposium that seizes on the tremendous interest shown in cultural mapping practices by small cities and brings to bear multiple knowledgedomains to move our collective understanding of this practice forward. Theory, methodology and practice article pdf available in cultural trends 211. Cultural mapping and an assessment of the cultural resources that a community possesses can thus have tremendous value. Aside from the online cultural map created through the cultural mapping project, the project will also produce an academic publication analysing the use of cultural space from the perspective of various academic disciplines. Leading integration of organizational cultures following an.
The purpose of this thesis is to gain a deeper understanding of the importance of the cultural integration process during a merger. Heritage mapping is the process of identifying natural and cultural heritage resources of a specific locality for purposes of conservation and development commonwealth department of communication and the arts, 1995. Culture surveys and assessment tools can be used to measure culture, but these can be time consuming to. His intention as a teacher is to merge the analyti cal and. It is not intended to be an encountergroup kind of exercise, nor is it the kind of thing where people should feel under pressure to perform.
Pdf the worldwide interest in everyday culture, ways of living and doing things which. The final section proposes ways for unesco to follow up. Cultural landscape mapping manual front cover in khmer. The team mapping tool much like the personal profile tool, this tool allows you to combine your answers from the questionnaire with those of other members of your team along the eight dimensions introduced in the book. Where is here cultural mapping small cities, deep mapping.