AUDITING PLACEDNESS: SAMPLE COI DOCUMENTATION

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Further to the above the Community of Ownership & Interest (COI) membership will be exhaustive and individually nuanced relative to each group/class of members. There is no imperative to constrict or constrain COI membership given that the more expansive it may be the greater the the advantages there may be for various planning & marketing processes. In the case of museums an art galleries the following will almost certainly be included:

students, teachers & lecturers;
researchers, scholars & writers;
collectors of all kinds;
history & heritage groups;
field naturalists & environmentalists;
academics & cultural tourists;
plus a myriad of others with nuanced relationships specific to a particular institution and/or museums and art galleries in general and their specific raison d’êtres.

The audit process as much as being about other things ‘the process’ is in most part about acknowledging and building upon the institution’s ‘sense of community’. Once established this it is ever likely that the institution’s ‘COI Register’ will inevitably be one of the institution’s most valuable assets and that which is most likely to secures its future from various perspectives.

INTRODUCTION

‘Place Audits’ for geographic locations, community events, architectural spaces and places like cultural institutions are useful in identifying the dimension and diversity of the Communities of Ownership & Interest (COI) associated with, and attached to, ‘places’. Moreover, the various ways they are, and can be, understood and valued changes once they are described.

Equally, such audits are an effective strategy in discovering and articulating the layerings of interests, the cultural meanings and the various significances attached to these places, organisation and institutions.

However, it needs to be understood that such audits are by necessity subjective, ideally multidimensional and typically determined within various and variable cultural contexts and best described from within the COI itself.

THE PLACESCAPING

In essence a ‘place audit’ is about discovering and enunciating ‘the site’s’ placedness. Places are defined by the human interactions that goes on within them and that in turn shapes them, gives them significance, bestows the site/place/event with a ’form’ that is determined by the cultural realties brought to by its COI.

A ‘place audit’ is as much about – arguably more about – the articulation of the human relationships, and the attendant cultural realities, that give a place its form, functionality and utility.

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SAMPLE COI DOCUMENTATION

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