Naming rights to our publicly owned places and spaces in Victoria BC
You may have heard that the Victoria City Council is considering a proposal to sell the naming rights to public facilities in the city. Dr. Reuben Rose-Redwood at the University of Victoria, Department of Geography recently wrote a letter to the editor of the Times Colonist:
Creating Common Ground: A Community and Green Mapping Workshop - March 24th - Register Now!
Saturday March 24, 2012 9:30 am to 3 pm
The Okanagan Nation and Nuu-chah-nulth Living Atlases
Join us for an introduction to
The Okanagan Nation and Nuu-chah-nulth Living Atlas
Interactive mapping tools for First Nations Communities
Celebrate SNITCEL (Tod Inlet): Place of the Blue Grouse with SeaChange
BC Parks Centennial Celebrates Tod Inlet, SNITCEL: Place of the Blue Grouse, Brentwood Bay, BC
UVic's CMI visits Hartley Bay, British Columbia
Dr. Chris Darimont has shared a few photos from events before and during the start of the environmental hearing in Bella Bella. Chris was there to support the Heitsuk Nation along with a number of our friends from the Gitga'at Nation.
Charles Burnett - Community Green Mapping Roundtable March, 2011
On 25 March 2011, Adjunct Prof Charles Burnett gave a talk at the Community Green Mapping Roundtable describing his experiences supporting students as they worked with communities in Geog 391 last summer. Below is his Prezi.
Habitat Trust interpretive walk Devonian park
Wendy Brawer and Ken Josephson joined Habitat Trust's interpretive walk at Devonian Park on Saturday, part of their Bilston~Latoria Watershed Good Neighbours Project 2011
Nick Pope, geog alumni - travels, work and life in China
Nicholas Pope did his honours paper in 2008 using community mapping to help ESL students orient themselves to Victoria and campus life.
Since graduating in 2008, he has been living, working, studying and traveling in China.
Nick is back in Victoria for a couple of months and will be tellings us about some of his experiences in China and Tibet at the Wandering Geographer's Club lunch time series.
Please join us!
Shelbourne Corridor Open House January 7, 2011
The Shelbourne Corridor Action Plan project held an open house Thursday, January 27th, 5 to 8 p.m. at St. Aidan's United Church, displaying the results of the community consultation's map vision survey facilitated by the Office of Community Based Research and UVic's proposed Community Mapping Initiative.
For more information visit the Shelbourne Corridor Action Plan page on the District of Saanich website.
GEOG 355 Coastal Communities
Here's a map view of previous projects from Cameron Owens' GEOG355 Coastal Communities class projects.
Coastal Community Green MapThis is a participatory interactive on-line map of place based stories started in conjunction with SeaChange a local NGO.
Uni 102 Community Mapping Course 2011
UVic Geography Department's Ken Josephson (Technical Services - Cartographer, Graphic Designer/Artist) & John Newcomb (recently retired Senior Lab Instructor/Course Advisor) will once again team-up to present a dynamic 2-part workshop to introduce the concept of Community Mapping to the students of UVic's Continuing Studies Uni 102, Feb 22 & 24, 2011.
Here are a few pictures of past UNI 102 projects
Welcome To Geography Fall 2010
On Thursday, October 7th, 2010, from 11 am - 1:30 pm in the SSM Courtyard, the UVic Geography Department hosted a Welcome To Geography event, providing an opportunity to meet-and-greet with the dean, faculty and students of Geography.
Activities included:
- Message-bearing tree sculpture hung with colourful autumn leaves inscribed with our collective Hopes & Wishes
- An opportunity to "Put Yourself On The Map", noting places where we were born, our home/heart connections, and the roots of our mothers and fathers
Wayfinding Compass Installation Celebration: Tue Sept 7 - 4:30 pm
Treasured Places Wayfinding Project Completion Celebration
The Wayfinding Signpost, installed temporarily on Sept 2 for the first 2 Weeks of Classes at UVic, was created by the August Uni 201 The Art of Place class, taught by Dr. Brenda Beckwith (UVic Environmental Studies) and Ken Josephson (UVic Geography)!
Uni 201 - The Art of Place: Role of Community-based Art in Academia
This Uni 201 course, The Art of Place: Role of Community-based Art in Academia, is open to Graduates of Uni 101/102, and will be taught by Dr. Brenda Beckwith (UVic Environmental Studies) and Ken Josephson (UVic Geography), on Tuesdays, August 10 - 31, 2010, from 6:30 to 9 pm, in SS&M Building, Board Room B211/215.
Geog 391 Community Mapping - Credit Course
UVic's Geography Department proudly presents their first credit course in Community Mapping - Geog 391, an intense, short summer term course, with the theme of Rural Community Health, offered May 11 - June 2, 2010.
The course will be taught by Charles Burnett, & assisted by volunteer community mappers Ken Josephson, Wendy Anthony & Theresa Fingler.
Local Binners Access Map Launched
See Victoria Times Colonist article: New Map Shows Binners The Way
Keep tuned to the CBRL website for updates ...
CBRL 2007 Binning Project
