Cultural Mapping

Cultural Mapping

Cultural Mapping is about helping children explore the traditions, stories, and creative expressions that shape their community. By noticing and sharing local art, music, food, festivals, and historic places, children learn to see how culture connects people and gives meaning to where we live.

This process teaches valuable skills: how to appreciate diversity, recognise shared heritage, and celebrate the ways different voices contribute to community life. It encourages curiosity, respect, and pride in both personal and collective identities.

To support this, we’ve created a set of teaching packs. Each pack provides structured activities, resources, and discussion prompts that you can use in the classroom or outdoors. Whether mapping cultural landmarks, documenting community traditions, or creating their own cultural symbols, these packs are designed to make cultural learning engaging, accessible, and memorable.

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Teaching Packs

Teaching packs coming soon, please check back.

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Public Map Platform is being led by Cambridge, Cardiff and Wrexham Universities and is part of the Future Observatory - the Design Museum’s national research programme for the green transition. The project is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. This website does not use cookies and does not collect personally identifying information.