UNI 102 - Community Mapping - Pt 2 (2012)

Date Start Course: 

Thursday, March 22, 2012

Date End Course: 

Thursday, March 22, 2012

Date Started: 

2012

Date Completed: 

2012

Year: 

2012

Community Mapping session 2
seeing our neighbourhood geography
back to session 1

Environmental Studies | session 1 | session 2


Instructors:

Instructors: Ken Josephson (Community Mapping Initiative; Geography - Cartographer, Graphic Designer/Artist) & Dr. Brenda Beckwith (Environmental Studies Senior Lab Instructor)

Schedule:

  • Community Mapping: local to global
  • Break
  • Art as a voice for research, learning and teaching


Reflection Questions:

  1. What do you personally think are signs of healthy sustainable communities or neighbourhoods?
  2. What does 'sense of place' mean to you?
  3. What characteristics, features or attributes contribute to a strong sense of, or attachment to, a 'place'?


Examples of local community maps:


Here are a few images from Session 1

This is a 'word cloud' of our community planning game:

Links, references and videos:

LifeCycles project society - food, health, urban sustainability; fruit tree project; sharing backyards

The wish tree: fall 2011

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