Cultural Mapping: A Guide to Understanding Place, Community and Continuity (2nd Edition: Revised and Updated)
About this ebook
“This guide on Cultural Mapping provides an invaluable resource for everyone interested in having a deeper understanding of the unique character and identity of a historic place and its community. It provides the user with a clear methodology for unraveling the complex and significant elements that make up any human settlement. Step-by-step procedures outline the processes, tools and techniques for collecting and assessing the cultural assets and resources of a given community.
“Several illustrated case applications of cultural mapping from Malaysia and Hong Kong have been included to help demonstrate the application of cultural mapping in tourism, conservation, revitalisation and education projects.
“This is a remarkable resource which advocates that cultural mapping should be the basis for all urban planning studies to ensure that culturally sensitive and appropriate decisions are made in the planning, management and development of small and large historic sites and in place-making exercises. A must use for policy makers, planners, cultural advocates and leaders.”
Ar. Laurence Loh
Director of Arkitek LLA Sdn Bhd
and Think City Sdn Bhd
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About the author
Janet Pillai served as an associate professor at the Department of Performing Arts in Universiti Sains Malaysia until 2014. Pillai is currently an independent consultant and resource person who conducts research, training and programming related to community-engaged projects in partnership or consultation with communities, local agencies, institutions and professionals. Her research interest revolves around the themes of cultural heritage education, community development and cultural mapping.
Pillai has authored four books and numerous articles on arts and culture education as well as sustainability. She also contributes as an expert resource person in organisations such as UNESCO Bangkok, APCIEU Korea, Hong Kong University and GETTY Foundation USA.
She is the founder of Arts-ED, a non-profit organisation (NPO) which specialises in community-based heritage education. The work of Arts-ED is focused on promoting cultural sustainability through cultural mapping, documentation and interpretation, and transmission.
Among its many projects, Arts-ED has conducted several cultural mapping projects in Penang which include: myBalikpulau Mapping Project with children (2009, Arts-ED), Campbell Street Market Cultural Mapping Research Project (2010, Universiti Sains Malaysia and 2016, ThinkCity Penang), Chowrasta Urban Market Survey (2011, Badan Warisan Malaysia and LLA Architects Sdn Bhd), Cultural Mapping Study of Jeti Lama Market, Butterworth, Penang (2016, Think City Penang), Cultural Mapping Study of Pulau Tikus Market (2017, Penang Municipality) and Cultural Mapping Study of Bukit Mertajam Market (2019, Think City Penang).
