Cultural Mapping as Cultural Inquiry

396 Pages·2015·4.223 MB·English

by  Nancy Duxbury, W.F. Garrett-Petts, David MacLennan

Cultural Mapping as
Cultural Inquiry
This edited collection provides an introduction to the emerging interdisci-
plinary fi eld of cultural mapping, offering a range of perspectives that are
international in scope. Cultural mapping is a mode of inquiry and a meth-
odological tool in urban planning, cultural sustainability, and community
development that makes visible the ways local stories, practices, relation-
ships, memories, and rituals constitute places as meaningful locations. The
chapters address themes, processes, approaches, and research methodologies
drawn from examples in Australia, Canada, Estonia, the United Kingdom,
Egypt, Italy, Malaysia, Malta, Palestine, Portugal, Singapore, Sweden, Syria,
the United Arab Emirates, the United States, and Ukraine. Contributors
explore innovative ways to encourage urban and cultural planning, commu-
nity development, artistic intervention, and public participation in cultural
mapping—recognizing that public involvement and artistic practices intro-
duce a range of challenges spanning various phases of the research process,
from the gathering of data, to interpreting data, to presenting “fi ndings” to
a broad range of audiences. The book responds to the need for histories and
case studies of cultural mapping that are globally distributed and that situ-
ate the practice locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally.
Nancy Duxbury i s a senior researcher at the Centre for Social Studies, Uni-
versity of Coimbra, Portugal, and co-coordinator of its Cities, Cultures, and
Architecture Research Group.
W. F. Garrett-Petts is professor of English and associate vice-president of
Research and Graduate Studies at Thompson Rivers University, Canada.
David MacLennan is assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and
Anthropology at Thompson Rivers University, Canada.
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Cultural Mapping as
Cultural Inquiry
Edited by
Nancy Duxbury, W. F. Garrett-Petts,
and David MacLennan
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Cultural mapping as cultural inquiry / edited by Nancy Duxbury,
W.F. Garrett-Petts, David MacLennan. — 1st Edition.
pages cm. — (Routledge advances in research methods ; 13)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Social sciences—Research—Methodology. 2. City planning—
Research. 3. Community development—Research. I. Duxbury, Nancy,
editor. II. Garrett-Petts, W. F. (William Francis), 1954– editor.
III. MacLennan, David, editor.
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Contents
List of Figures ix
List of Tables xv
Acknowledgments xvii
1 Cultural Mapping as Cultural Inquiry: Introduction
to an Emerging Field of Practice 1
NANCY DUXBURY, W. F. GARRETT-PETTS, AND DAVID MACLENNAN
PART I
Mapping the Contours of an Emerging Field
2 Cultural Mapping and Planning for Sustainable Communities 45
GRAEME EVANS
3 One Strategy, Many Purposes: A Classifi cation for
Cultural Mapping Projects 69
L EONARDO CHIESI AND PAOLO COSTA
4 Cultural Mapping: Analyzing Its Meanings in Policy Documents 86
ELEONORA REDAELLI
5 Cultural Mapping in Ontario: The Big Picture 99
M . SHARON JEANNOTTE
PART II
Platforms for Engagement and Knowledge Through Mapping
6 Wedjemup Wangkiny Koora, Yeye and Mila Boorda (Wedjemup
Talking from the Past, Today, and the Future): An Ex-Modern
Way of Thinking and Mapping Landscape into Country? 119
L EN COLLARD AND GRANT REVELL
vi Contents
7 Understanding the Full Impact of Cultural
Mapping in Ukraine 137
LINDA KNUDSEN MCAUSLAND AND OLHA KOTSKA
8 Engaging Public, Professionals, and Policy-Makers
in the Mapping Process 153
JANET PILLAI
9 Mapping Cultures: Spatial Anthropology and
Popular Cultural Memory 170
L ES ROBERTS AND SARA COHEN
10 Reading the City: Cultural Mapping as Pedagogical Inquiry 193
STUART BURCH
11 City Readings and Urban Mappings: The City as
Didactic Instrument 217
PAULO PROVIDÊNCIA
PART III
Inquiry, Expression, and Deepening
Understanding of Place
12 Time, Aggregation, and Analysis: Designing Effective
Digital Cultural Mapping Projects 233
ELAINE SULLIVAN AND WILLEKE WENDRICH
13 Beyond Paper Maps: Archaeologies of Place 254
A BBY SUCKLE AND SEETHA RAGHUPATHY
14 Mapping the Complexity of Creative Practice:
Using Cognitive Maps to Follow Creative Ideas
and Collaborations 276
ROBERTA COMUNIAN AND KATERINA ALEXIOU
15 From Work to Play: Making Bodies in Flight’s
Performance Walk Dream-work 303
S ARA GIDDENS AND SIMON JONES
16 Maraya as Visual Research: Mapping Urban
Displacement and Narrating Artistic Inquiry 319
G LEN LOWRY, M. SIMON LEVIN, AND HENRY TSANG (MARAYA)
Contents vii
17 Beyond the Brochure: An Unmapped Journey
into Deep Mapping 338
KATHLEEN SCHERF
Contributors 361
Index 371
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Figures
2.1 Populating the cultural map (Source: Evans, 2008) 53
2.2 North Northants community-scale cultural facilities
(Source: EDAW/Cities Institute, 2008) 54
2.3 Flowchart of Cultural Asset Mapping 56
2.4 Woolwich culture map 60
2.5 Woolwich cultural facility catchment areas 61
2.6 Woolwich clustering of cultural assets 61
2.7 “This much I know, the rest I shall guess”: a drawing of
the Suffolk Coast to explore the implications of the Shoreline
Management Plan for the Suffolk Coast (Simon Read, 2010) 62
2.8 Cultural Ecosystem Mapping GIS-Participation
workshop and analysis 64
3.1 A three-dimensional space to classify cultural
mapping projects 72
3.2 Some maps and drawings of the Bethlehem community
mapping process, presented by the children in one of
the fi nal events; the variety of styles and forms of maps
shows that their accuracy per se was considered less
relevant than other intangible outcomes of that process.
(Photos: Bethlehem Area Conservation and Management
Plan [BACMP]) 76
3.3 Stages of the co-design workshop in Marsaxlokk: (a) some
local participants share their stories with designers; (b) local
participants bring in photos and display them as working
materials. (Photos: Davide Virdis) 81
3.4 Some moments of the public event organized at the end of
the co-design workshop; both citizens and tourists came to
provide feedback to the designers about their design ideas.
(Photos: Davide Virdis) 83
4.1 Non-city-owned cultural facilities in Toronto (published in
ERA Architects Inc., 2003, p. 46; reprinted with permission
of the City of Toronto) 91