Povoar: the digital cultural map
Autor/a
Piccolo, Elisabetta
Sarmento, Marta
Jebali, Zeineb
Fecha de publicación
2022Resumen
POVOAR is a not-for-profit association whose main goal is to explore, improve and decentralize the artistic and cultural sector in countries where the latter is underestimated, unequal and underdeveloped. POVOAR came to light with the concern of the centralized and neglective systems that rule many countries and limit the flourishing and diversification of the cultural and artistic fields. As a response to such issues, a pilot project was created based on the mapping of artistic and cultural expressions over the regions of Portugal. The country was chosen to initiate the project as it represents a good example of a culturally rich but poorly invested territory. The first steps of the project rely on an on-site campaign of data gathering of the cultural and artistic expressions of one of the poorest regions of the country: Beja. The findings of the research then become available on an online platform, through a digital map accessible to anyone. In the long-term, the association intends to expand its research to other countries by pairing projects and relating people and activities from different communities, based on their similarities, with the aim of creating a worldwide cultural network. At the core of POVOAR there is a quest for connections: human, artistic, heritage, and geographical relations drive us towards the future, and have been driving us to where we are today. The project was born from a shared interest in human encounters, a passion for tales of tradition, and a need for preserving what is getting forgotten in every community. POVOAR has the power to bring visibility and opportunities to the people of the cultural sector, raise awareness of the importance of arts and culture, encourage an alternative form of tourism - more committed and sustainable - and provide the governments with a database of diversified useful information to develop truly effective cultural policies.
Tipo de documento
Trabajo fin de máster
Versión del documento
Versión publicada
Lengua
English
Materias (CDU)
00 - Ciencia y conocimiento. Investigación. Cultura. Humanidades
316 - Sociología. Comunicación
Palabras clave
Projecte cultural
Pla de comunicació
Proyecto cultural
Plan de comunicación
Cultural project
Communication plan
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22
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