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Local universities will conduct an online seminar on the importance of cultural mapping in the Philippines.
By Manila Magazine

Online Seminar Tackles Importance Of Cultural Mapping

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The online discussion aims to guide the participants on the important role of art to preserve Philippine history and tradition. It will present diverse art forms, including devotional practices of the Tagalogs, ancestral houses and heritage sites in San Juan City and historically significant sculptures and monuments in Quezon City. It will explore how each discipline can be a source of knowledge on Filipino culture.

The webinar will be facilitated by educator Alan Abina Navida from the De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde (DLS-CSB) Design Foundation Department and University of the Philippines Diliman Extension Program.

Aside from teaching, Navida shares his expertise as a resource person for public lectures on Humanities and Philippine Art, Culture, Society, History and Domestic Tourism. He is a National Tour Guide and Mabuhay Host accredited by the Department of Tourism (DOT). He also curates domestic tour modules and organizes educational tours.

Navida served as the Chief Docent and Museum Collections Manager of the Likha-an Museum in Intramuros, Manila until March 2020.

He is equipped with a Bachelor’s Degree in Philosophy from the Claret Formation Center College of Philosophy and a Master’s Degree in Art Studies Major in Art History from the University of the Philippines Diliman.

Spearheaded by the DLS-CSB Design Foundation Department of the School of Arts, Culture, and Performance (SACP), the event will be moderated by researcher and Design Foundation professor Iris De Ocampo. Her research interests include media and technology-based arts and the dialogues between and within contemporary art and education.

With an Arts Studies degree, she has likewise rendered her creativity as an arts festival coordinator, writer, museum intern and zine co-creator. She is currently pursuing graduate studies in Adult Education for Social Change through an Erasmus Mundus scholarship. The joint master’s degree program is coordinated by the University of Glasgow (UK) and includes mobility periods in the University of Malta in Malta and Tallinn University in Estonia.

PAMANALIKSIK: Pagmamapa ng mga Piling Likhang-Sining at Pamanang-Bayan is free and open to the public and will be conducted via Zoom from Wednesday, October 26, 2022 to Friday, October 28, 2022 from 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.

Interested participants may register through https://bit.ly/Pamanaliksik.

For more information, visit https://www.facebook.com/benildearts.