Date Start Course:
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Date End Course:
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Date Started:
2011
Date Completed:
2011
Year:
2011
Instructors | Schedule | Reflections | Past Projects | Links | Costa Rica
Instructors:
UVic Geography Department Instructors: Ken Josephson (Technical Services - Cartographer, Graphic Designer/Artist) & John Newcomb (recently retired Senior Lab Instructor/Course Advisor)
Schedule:
- Map your Global Connection to Place
- Sustainable Development in Costa Rica - - Case study of communities in transition (Slide Presentation - 5.5 MB pdf)
- Geomantics Computer Lab: Introduction to interactive, on-line mapping; telling place-based stories
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'?
Past UNI 102 projects
- Anna's audio map of Moss Street Village
- Slideshow of Past Project photos (may take a moment to load)
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
Here are a few images from Thursday evenings class.
(see Part 1)
Download pdf file: ENVIRONMENT & DEVELOPMENT IN COSTA RICA - Case study of communities in transition - John Newcomb
