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19 · Treasure · community knowledge

A map with the right to be closed

Participatory cultural map of Bwindi and Mgahinga

Thirty-two participants identified places, species and memories; the community decides what information can be made public.

Museum documentation · free public access, no account required.

EDITORIAL VISUALISATION DECLARED · AI-GENERATED IMAGE · TRACEKEEPERS

Editorial visualisation · Contextual correspondence

Declared editorial visualisation, based on the cartography and sources of the fact sheet; it is not an exact historical frontier.

Conceptual interface with public, community and closed layers, without showing real coordinates
EDITORIAL VISUALISATION DECLARED · AI-GENERATED IMAGE · TRACEKEEPERS

Editorial visualisation · Contextual correspondence

Declared editorial visualisation, based on the cartography and sources of the fact sheet; it is not an exact historical frontier.

History and context

Thirty-two participants from five settlements carried out walks, interviews and three-dimensional mapping of places, species, practices and memories.

The public version should only explain the method. Routes, sanctuaries and medicinal knowledge belong to community layers or closed ones.

Evidence and interpretation

Participatory cultural evaluation conducted in 2012 and published in 2013.

Catalogue facts

Narrative date
2012–2013
Location
Rushaga, Kitahurira, Sanuriro, Rukeri and Musasa; Uganda
Material
3D map, tours, interviews and knowledge
Context
Shared authority among participants, communities and UOBDU.
Curatorial reading
The documented fact and its interpretation appear separately in the evidence block.
Dossier axis
treasures
Research record
BATWA · treasure-participatory-cultural-map
Documentary coverage
1 museum source, heritage, primary corpus or research for this stop.

A SHARED TOPIC, DIFFERENT MOMENTS

Objects connected through time

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Maps4 dated objects

4 / 4In the centre: A map with the right to be closed

A closer look

About 1 min to read · 1 section. Further reading and sources · free access. Editorial review recorded: .

The map was repaired too

The project's annual report for 2013–2014 documents a subsequent intervention on the model: senior Batwa renewed place-name labels in the forest and a wooden and glass protective cover was built to facilitate consultation. The model remained linked to UOBDU in Kisoro; moreover, reproductions on panels were prepared for partner institutions. These operations show that a participatory map has maintenance, custodians and successive publics. Changing a label or deciding where to display it belongs to its history as much as the initial moment of modelling the relief.

Sources and references

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