Shogren Consulting | Heritage, Museum & Cultural Planning

Motive Space Symposium

We are providing a variety of support services to the Symposium including support and development of the Symposium’s WordPress based website, creation of a Google Checkout system for event registration, conference planning advice, and consultation on Nonprofit start-ups. Shogren Consulting’s support of the Symposium represents the first of our new initiatives build sustainable communities and to implement the principals of LEAD International.

The September dialogue will provide a forum for industry related professionals and citizens to gather + contribute toward a community model of Cooperative Development. For the purposes of the dialogue, the proposed definition of cooperative development is the initiation of multi-family infill projects through the collaborative efforts of citizens and designers. It proposes a renegotiated partnership between enterprising architects and design-savvy citizens, in order to simultaneously diminish the risk of new construction in a shaky market economy, and maximize the creative excitement of design as a tool for personal, civic, and social empowerment.

The Phillip Foster Farm and Jacknife-Zion-Horseheaven Historical Society of Eagle Creek, Oregon

We are beginning work with the Historical Society in August to help them develop a Long-Range Preservation Plan for their collections and buildings. We will also be offering workshops for staff and volunteers on collections care, housekeeping and implementing an environmental monitoring program for the buildings to develop baseline data for future projects.

Keepers of Heceta Head Light Station

In working this new start-up heritage organization were are providing advice, consultation and support on the the development of their IRS Form 1023 submission to the Internal Revenue Service seeking their 501c3 tax-exemption from Federal income tax. We are also working with the Board in the development of various grants strategies to seek support from local, regional and national foundations as they work to preserve and restore the last remaining lighthouse keepers cottage on the Oregon Coast and eventual the preservation of the lighthouse itself.

Tigard Historical Association

Working with the Board and volunteers to train them in the care and processing of the Association’s heritage collections. Project activities include the development of policies and forms for the receiving, accessioning and cataloging of collections, the development of a collections manual, the development and approval of a Collections Policy that will govern, in the future, how the organization cares for collections and what it chooses to accept. Additional activities include working with them to implement PastPerfect for the management of collections, and a reconstruction of previous collections activities to generate a series of Donor Files and Accession Files for both gift and collections management.

Last night I was doing research on the UNESCO web site when I came across some terrific resources on doing Cultural Mapping and its impact on both Interpretive Planning and Community Planning that will help communities and institutions re-envision their own efforts. As these resources are buried within UNESCO at the UNESCO Bangkok website I am providing links to some of the resources below so that they have a wider distribution and greater impact on the cultural and preservation planning communities–particularly those undertaking county wide or region wide preservation planning efforts.

All works are the copyrights of their authors and UNESCO and provided here for educational use. Please check it out some of this very cool material below!

Sam Shogren

Cultural mapping has been recognized by UNESCO as a crucial tool and technique in preserving the world’s intangible and tangible cultural assets. It encompasses a wide range of techniques and activities from community-based participatory data collection and management to sophisticated mapping using GIS (Geographic Information Systems).

Cultural mapping involves a community identifying and
documenting local cultural resources. Through this
research cultural elements are recorded – the tangibles
like galleries, craft industries, distinctive landmarks,
local events and industries, as well as the intangibles
like memories, personal histories, attitudes and values.
After researching the elements that make a community
unique, cultural mapping involves initiating a range of
community activities or projects, to record, conserve
and use these elements. …the most fundamental goal
of cultural mapping is to help communities recognize,
celebrate, and support cultural diversity for economic,
social and regional development

(Keynote speech, Clark, Sutherland & Young 1995.
Cultural Mapping Symposium and Workshop, Australia).

All of the links below will open a pdf file in a new browser window. If you need to download a copy of Adobe’s pdf Reader follow this link.

• The Role of Culture Mapping in Heritage Resource Conservation Management
• What? Who? Why? and How?….
• GIS Based Culture Mapping: Resource Management Applications
• GIS and Cultural Resource Management: A Manual for Heritage Managers
• Mapping and Cultural Heritage Impact Assessment
• License to Map: Managing A Tenure Map in Three Stages - Official Map - No Name Map - Ye’Kuana-Samema Map
• Village India: Identification and Enhancement of Cultural Heritage
• Case Study: The Reindeer Herders in the Area of Lake Khovsgol Khovsgol, Mongolia

Can the arts and culture play a central role in revitalizing American cities? Over the past decade, a number of cities have answered this question affirmatively. For the most part, they have turned to big-ticket downtown cultural districts as the strategy to expand their “creative economy.” At the same time, skeptics like Joel Kotkin have ridiculed this approach as the creation of “the ephemeral city” that ignores thefundamentals of good city-building for the illusion of urban vitality.

Cultivating Natural Cultural Districts