Purpose: Culture is increasingly recognized as a key component of local development, but this attention is largely focused on large cities. This paper aims to focus on the ways in which the innovative, participatory action-research (PAR) methods of IdeaLabs and community intervention workshops are used by two projects with solidarity economy enterprise (SEE) participants to activate place-based cultural resourc...
Submitted version of the article "Culture-tourism Entanglements: Moving from Grassroots Practices to Regenerative Cultural Policies in Smaller Communities" accepted for publication in International Journal of Cultural Policy.; Inspired by a rapidly emerging shift towards ‘regenerative tourism’ that privileges local improvement and well-being, this article considers the close connections between cultural initiat...
The H2020 project URBiNAT has adopted cultural mapping in its approach to co-create healthy corridors in the public space, based on the co-creation of nature-based solutions with citizens. This paper reports on work-in-progress in the integration and use of cultural mapping within this project. In Part I, the authors demonstrate how culture and cultural mapping can be interrelated with activities and thinking a...
Participatory cultural mapping is rooted in practices of community engagement and collaboration, working to make visible and co-produce knowledge that is of value for community identity formation, reflection, decision-making and development. Meaningful collaboration requires fierce listening, sharing control and sensitive attention to processes and perspectives. In contemporary academe, aspirations to ‘co-creat...
This article was originally published in the International Journal of Cultural Policy in December 2020. https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2020.1837788; An earlier version of this article was a keynote presentation at the Nordic Conference on Cultural Policy Research, held at Bifröst University, Iceland, in 2019.; This article reports on the themes and trajectories of a multidisciplinary and international literat...
Contributing to limited knowledge of creative tourism product development and operationalization processes in small cities and rural areas, ePortfolios were used as an online fieldnote depository for photographs and texts, which were entered by geographically dispersed researchers within the CREATOUR research-and-application project. The ePortfolios, as a type of research diary, record and examine the ways in w...