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South Georgian Bay Cultural Mapping Project

Crayons, Mappers & Somewheres, oh my!

What is Cultural Mapping?

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Cultural Mapping

Resource Mapping‘Things’

Identity Mapping ‘Stories’

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•Planning •Urban Design Standards

•Arts and Culture Advisory Committee•Communication•Coordination

•Economic Development•Georgian Triangle Institute Conference •Regional Economic Development Strategy •Sector research and impact

Somewhere Over the Rainbow…

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Our Fortune Teller• Funding for a Regional Economic Development

Strategy through MEDT

• Inclusion of a Cultural Mapping component

• Collingwood’s Arts and Culture Advisory Committee to lead this portion

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1. Map tangible and intangible cultural assets

2. Engage the community and change attitudes about culture

3. Provide economic analysis data to Regional Economic Development Strategy Consultant

4. Data to be available for use in GIS

5. Create strategy for sustaining the data and mapping system over time

Project Goals

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1. Strike Steering Committee

2. Launch communications

3. Collect and consolidate data

4. Engage the community

5. Complete economic analysis

6. Produce final report

7. Launch cultural mapping portal

Project Process

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Reality Check

•Skilled consultant is critical in helping refine project scope

Cultural Resource Framework

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Community Engagement -Part 1

• Creation of project brand • ‘Putting Culture on the Map’

• Building Project Website • Ongoing use to support awareness

and engagement

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Community Engagement –Part 2

• Community process• Public workshop in each community

• Workshops asked: • What assets are we missing?• What are the most important tangible

and intangible cultural assets?• What opportunities does mapping offer

to your community?

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1. Overview of creative economy

2. Analysis of creative cultural industries and occupations

Economic Analysis

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Creative Cultural Occupations (2006)

• Artisans and crafts persons make up 18.3% of all culture occupations and employee 100 residents across the Region

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1. Overview of the project, community participants and processes

2. Cultural maps 3. Data analysis4. Recommendations

• For continuing and expanding mapping

• For economic development

Final Report

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Cultural Mapping – Local or Regional?

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Look out for Flying Monkeys• Recognize challenges• Communicate objectives• Be open• Trust the process

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The Yellow Brick Road

• Your paths will all be different

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Our successes

•Standard data across the municipalities

•Policy driven approach

•Mapping informing planning and economic development

•Raising awareness of culture and its economic importance

•Changing perspective of the built environment

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Our challenges•How do we use this work as a foundation to build on and take action?

•Need for champions and partners to continue work

•Continued funding is tenuous

• Must be integrated into core business of planning and economic development

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