The M.A.P. Project: Mapping, Learning, Participation (2025–2026) is a winner under the Erasmus+ programme (KA210-VET, 2025–2026). It is promoted by the Associazione Culturale Il Campo dei Giganti (lead partner) in partnership with Coopérative Petra Patrimonia Corse (France).

M.A.P. represents the evolution of the research and practices initiated with the Community Map of Campo dei Giganti and arises from the need to bridge the gap that still exists between pedagogy and cultural practitioners. It aims to strengthen the skills of cultural actors from the perspective of educational mediation of heritage, with a strong interdisciplinary approach, focusing both on the pedagogical processes activated and on the quality of artistic outputs as outcomes.

The main objectives are:

– to integrate pedagogical methodologies with cultural and ecomuseum practices, providing practitioners with tools to transform “museums outside the museum” and places of memory into spaces of participatory learning;

– to support the digital transition through action-research tools, such as community maps, capable of linking tangible and intangible heritage;

– to enhance the ecomuseum paradigm and its focus on the relationship between landscape, community, and collective memory;

– to strengthen the role of cultural practitioners as facilitators of educational and social processes, not only as collection managers or event organizers.

At the heart of the project is a digital mapping laboratory that takes Campo dei Giganti as a case study. Through blended training activities, interviews, memory collection, and digital applications, each tree in the Campo becomes a content node: coordinates, testimonies, artistic interventions, and multimedia resources. In this way, the map aims to become a pedagogical tool for communities and visitors, as well as a living archive available to cultural institutions. MAP thus takes shape as a bridge: on one side with the world of pedagogy and educational research, and on the other with cultural management and contemporary artistic production. Participatory mapping becomes an innovative learning model that not only documents heritage but turns it into a living, shared, and formative experience.