2.2 Community Asset’s Mapping In order to “create” the collective memory has been used especially in the community of a place, the “community assets mapping” development strategy. Our aim is to learn is the starting process for the identification how to use the community assets mapping and collection of the basic elements of the in a context something different since in memory which must be elaborated and the framework of the project MEMORY, that are going to represent the pivotal tools the collective memory will be the tool for for the design and implementation of the the community development. By doing this, collective memory building methodology. we simply add a pivotal issue in the process Usually the community assets mapping of community development. WHAT IS A COMMUNITY ASSET? A community asset is anything that participate in the functioning of the life of a community. • It can be a person • It can be a physical structure or place • It can be a community service • It can be a business • You and everyone else in the community are potential community assets. Asset Mapping is a tool that relies on a core belief of asset-based community development; namely, that good things exist in communities and that those things can be highlighted and encouraged — these are assets suited to advancing those communities. Asset Mapping is a means, not an end. 29