Date Start Course:
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Date End Course:
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Date Started:
2011
Date Completed:
2011
Year:
2011
Instructors | Schedule | Reflection Questions | Slide Show | Links
Instructors:
UVic Geography Department Instructors: Ken Josephson (Technical Services - Cartographer, Graphic Designer/Artist) & John Newcomb (recently retired Senior Lab Instructor/Course Advisor)
Schedule:
- Community Planning Exercise: Our Dream Communities (See Slideshow below)
- Break
- Community Mapping Presentation
Reflection Questions:
- What do you think are indicators of a healthy sustainable community?
- What does 'sense of place' mean to you?
- What characteristics, features or attributes contribute to a strong sense of, or attachment to, a 'place'?
Slideshow: Our Dream Communities
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(Photos by Wendy Anthony)
Examples of local community maps:
- Coastal Community Green Map Project Visit the 'geobrowser' and explore some of the on-line place based stories
- ES 481 - Spring Project - 2009
- Open Green Map is GreenMap.org's participatory, interactive on-line map system
- Oak Bay Community Greenmap Puzzle - for a bit of fun, Ken discovered a way to create an interactive, on-line jig-saw puzzle from the most recently published, local greenmap
- Youth Portal of Greater Victoria
- Uni 201 - Community Based Art Project 2010
- UVic Community Green Map
- VICRA - Vancouver Island Community Research Alliance
(see Part 2)
