Name
Mapping Cultural Assets as Community Engagement
Date & Time
Tuesday, March 17, 2026, 9:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Location Name
Wrigley
Session Type
Promising Practice
Description

This session will discuss an innovative technique for campus-community engagement: cultural asset mapping. Cultural asset mapping is a process where communities identify and document the cultural resources, strengths, and activities they already have. Session leaders will guide participants through understanding the goals, outcomes, and community-centered approaches of cultural asset mapping through hands-on, interactive mapping exercises. Participants will leave with an understanding of cultural asset mapping as well as ideas for how to implement this method with their own communities. We will also discuss practical lessons learned from the ongoing Engaged City initiative, a project based at Washington University in St. Louis that is designing publicly accessible and co-created cultural asset maps of St. Louis.