Pamanaliksik: Pagmamapa ng mga Piling Likhang-Sining at Pamanang-Bayan, a three-day webinar series on cultural mapping, will be held from 26 to 28 October.

The online discussion aims to guide the participants in the important role of art in preserving Philippine history and traditions. It will present diverse art forms, including devotional practices of the Tagalogs, ancestral houses and heritage sites in San Juan City and historically significant sculptures and monuments in Quezon City.

It will explore how each discipline can be a source of knowledge on Filipino culture.

The webinar will be facilitated by educator Alan Abina Navida from the De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde Design Foundation Department and University of the Philippines Diliman Extension Program.

Aside from teaching, Navida will share his expertise as a resource person for public lectures on humanities and Philippine art, culture, society, history and domestic tourism.

He is a National Tour Guide and Mabuhay Host accredited by the Department of Tourism. He also curates domestic tour modules and organizes educational tours.

Navida served as Chief Docent and Museum Collections manager of the Likha-an Resource Center in Intramuros, until March 2020.

He has a Bachelor's degree in Philosophy from the Claret Formation Center College of Philosophy, and a Master's degree in Art Studies, major in Art History, from the University of the Philippines Diliman.

The event, spearheaded by the DLS-CSB Design Foundation Department of the School of Arts, Culture, and Performance, will be moderated by researcher and Design Foundation professor Iris De Ocampo. Her research interests include media and technology-based arts and the dialogues between and within contemporary art and education.

With an Arts Studies degree, she has likewise rendered her creativity as an arts festival coordinator, writer, museum intern and zine co-creator. She is currently pursuing graduate studies in Adult Education for Social Change through an Erasmus Mundus scholarship.

The joint master's degree program is coordinated by the University of Glasgow and includes mobility periods at the University of Malta in Malta and Tallinn University in Estonia.

Pamanaliksik: Pagmamapa ng mga Piling Likhang-Sining at Pamanang-Bayan is open to the public and will be conducted via Zoom from 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Interested participants may register through https://bit.ly/Pamanaliksik. For more information, visit https://www.facebook.com/benildearts.