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PUTTING CULTURE ON THE MAP
Wednesday, February 26, 2025
9:30 AM to 1:30 PM
Room 2P04. Faculty of Economics, University of Valencia. Campus dels Tarongers
Free registration required
Culture does not happen in a vacuum. Every artistic expression, every heritage manifestation, and every cultural experience are deeply rooted in a territory. "Place" is not just a physical space but a key factor that shapes and conditions cultural processes, giving them identity and meaning. In this sense, culture is always linked to a map, to a geographical context that influences its development and perception. Understanding this relationship is essential for effective cultural planning. Where are cultural resources located? What gaps and opportunities exist in each territory? How do cultural dynamics affect districts, cities, rural areas, or regions? Answering these questions requires tools to analyze the distribution, impacts, and transformations that culture generates in space. Cultural maps thus emerge as fundamental instruments for evaluation and strategic decision-making in cultural matters.
Fortunately, in recent years, advances in geolocation technologies, the availability of open data, and new territorial visualization platforms have revolutionized our ability to analyze and represent culture in the territory. Today, we have tools that were unthinkable a decade ago, opening new possibilities for evidence-based cultural planning and management.
This seminar invites participants to explore how spatial analysis of culture can enrich our planning strategies and what opportunities emerging technologies offer to map the cultural ecosystem with greater precision and depth. Combining these elements, we propose a session to review the state of the art on this topic and showcase some initiatives being developed at the University of Valencia.
PROGRAM
09:30 – Opening
Ángel Soler, Vice-Dean of Entrepreneurship and Institutional Relations at the Faculty of Economics UV
Marcia Jadue Boeri, Cultural Observatory UV
09:40 - 10:00 – Virtuópolis: A proposal to map the senses, emotions, and meanings of cities
Pau Rausell, Director of Econcult
10:00 - 10:30 – Data, maps, and journalistic information: Topics, resources, and results
Raúl Sánchez, Journalist at elDiario.es
10:30 - 11:00 – OECD local-level cultural data collection framework (Remote presentation in English)
Ekaterina Travkina, Coordinator for Culture, Creative Industries, and Global Events at OECD
11:00 - 11:30 – Mapping and visualizing heritage: Silknow, SeMap, and ClioViz projects
Laya Targa, Researcher at the Robotics Institute (IRTIC), UV
11:30 - 12:00 – A global geography of culture and creativity
Rafael Boix (Econcult), Professor at the Department of Economic Structure UV
12:00 - 12:30 – SICCRED: The impact of culture on well-being seen through maps
Jordi Sanjuan Belda (Econcult), Researcher and Professor at the Department of Applied Economics UV
12:30 - 13:00 – PITEC Project: Mapping cultural infrastructures in Spain
Virgilio Pérez Giménez (Econcult), Vice-Dean of Academic Planning at the Faculty of Economics UV
13:00 - 13:30 – IPAP-DANA [Public Initiative for Helping the Recovery of Valencian Cultural and Archaeological Heritage after DANA]
Agustín Diez Castillo, Director of the Department of Prehistory, Archaeology, and Ancient History UV
13:30 – Wine & Networking
ORGANIZED BY:
Econcult – Research Unit on Cultural Economics & Tourism at the University of Valencia (Department of Applied Economics)
COLLABORATORS:
Faculty of Economics UV
Cultural Observatory at the University of Valencia
Cultura als Campus
