Engage and expand, be active
Goal: to activate and engage the stakeholders, to communicate with the (wider) community.
How do we activate the stakeholders? How do we attract attention and communicate/share the vision of the community? How do we make it exciting & inspiring?
Related Competence
- To help develop common place/asset-based narratives
- To make it active & creative with: Open Days, events, a real bar & café, art projects, garden, World Café, picturing / imaging, storytelling, story trail method, hero stories, place telling, heritage walks …
- To (inter)connect, inspire, commit, activate, and empower people.
- To facilitate participatory governance and share responsibilities
- To deal with issues, conflicts of interest, differences of opinion, values, or convictions in an inclusive way
- To moderate brainstorming, decision making, co-operating processes in the community
- To create ideas and opportunities, to manage resources, to make things happen (intrapreneurship)
- To establish (digital/on-line and real life) communication, meeting and cooperation structures and processes
Activities
- apply storytelling techniques to invite people to tell about their relationship with local heritage.
- collect stories that are relevant for the community and the heritage.
- offer the community a variety of appropriate media for conveying/presenting a place-based story.
- apply storytelling techniques to help articulate/reveal common meanings and connections with the place/heritage.
- advocate for communities concerning the values they have for a heritage to a diverse range of audiences.
- help develop a well-structured narrative based on story material offered by people.
- choose and apply various ways of inspiring, committing, activating, and empowering people in various settings and contexts.
- assist communities in uncovering heritage in their own places.
- identify aspects of a heritage asset that may be considered as promising.
- make an inventory or network analysis of all relevant stakeholders.
- identify the potential benefits, incentives, challenges a heritage asset may offer to the network.
- develop a plan for reaching people, raise an interest, involve, and empower them in heritage community building.
- develop a viable plan for the development and exploitation.
- evaluate progress
- challenge stakeholders to develop ideas, organise design thinking meetings.
- develop scenario’s including budget plans. Discuss viability and risks.
- provide examples of multiple views of heritage in the work with communities.
- assist heritage communities in discussing multiple views of the past
- involve a diverse range of communities in co-creating interpretation of heritage.
- assist communities in critically assessing the credibility of sources and in discerning evidence-based facts from presumptions and fiction.
Examples
Visit Bccari
Visit Bccari is a tourism project…..(Short Project description text)
it is an example for place telling because….(how the project is relevant to a competence)
More examples
Additional examples:
Project A (Competence 2): LINK
Project B (Competence 3): LINK
KSA competence framework
To help develop common place/asset-based narratives
Field competence 7: To help develop common place/asset-based narratives
EQF | Cognitive/knowledge | Activity/skills | Affective/attitude |
4 | Knowing standard interview techniques Knowing that different target groups should be addressed differently Knowing about story structure Knowing different media to convey narratives. | Ask people to tell about their relationship with local heritage. Collect stories that are relevant for the community and the heritage. Offer the community a variety of appropriate media for telling a story. | To be interested in storytelling. To be willing to use storytelling. To be interested in promoting and communicating the local heritage To like narratives to be well structured. |
5 | Basic knowledge of narratology. Knowing storytelling techniques to help build a community identity and place awareness Knowing storytelling techniques to help the community create attractive narratives about their | Choose and use the appropriate media to help convey a place-based story. Apply storytelling techniques to help articulate/reveal common meanings and connections with the place/heritage. Help develop a simple structured narrative based on story material offered by the people | To be interested in conveying intercultural and self-transcending values using storytelling. To like the use of a correct language in narratives. To like well-structured stories. |
6 | Extended knowledge of storytelling techniques to help build a community identity and place awareness Thorough knowledge of the socio-linguistic aspects of your language (how to use it in different contexts). Extended knowledge of practical theory regarding place-telling® | Offer a variety of narrative structures to people Create a story following general narrative principles. Apply storytelling techniques to help articulate/reveal common meanings and connections with the place/heritage in a multicultural context. Help develop a well-structured narrative based on story material offered by people with diverse backgrounds. | To be eager to create stories that highlight intercultural and self-transcending values To value quality in language use. |