Community mapping for intercultural dialogue

This paper aims to present some suggestions on how to create a cartographic representation which is able to facilitate a dialogue between people from a variety of cultural contexts. For this reason, we present a process of community mapping for an area of Sub-Saharan African territory. This process, anchored to a specific theoretical and methodological approach, was very useful in the creation of an intercultural communication between different subjects engaged in environmental conservation processes. The role of participatory mapping emerges, enabling dialogue between traditional knowledge and technical know-how.