The Initiative

Map My Heritage has been set up to establish a digital repository of our cultural resources especially unprotected ones, documenting heritage assets, traditional knowledge & skills with people's participation in the changing context. Aim is to take discussion on preservation & development across to a larger audience providing an opportunity for all to contribute, explore & co-create. 

This platform is part of Indian Heritage Hub an initiative of Centre for Advancement of Traditional Building Technology and Skills (CATTS) encouraging people to develop awareness & understanding of their cultural context creating a community interested in heritage. 

The initiative stresses upon accessibility & sharing of information and aspires to:

o          Document for posterity cultural heritage related information through a multidisciplinary approach

o          Provide recognition to local cultural heritage, highlighting creativity at the grassroots

o          Provide an opportunity to people to highlight issues and potentials with regards cultural heritage

o          Promote a community based participatory approach to building a repository

o          Sharing of information amongst people with easy accessibility to cultural  heritage related information in the public domain

We are seeking participation from people to collectively build this database. This is a mammoth task indeed! However we believe that through collective effort we can create a corpus of information on cultural heritage that can be shared easily for the enrichment of all. We are looking forward to active involvement of all who share our vision.