How do you make maps? What should be mapped and why? How can communities and organizations use maps to understand and improve their neighbourhoods and inform their programming and advocacy? Panelists will discuss community-based mapping approaches and tools – and how you can put them to use.
Overview:
Nina-Marie Lister is an Associate Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at Ryerson University and Visiting Associate Professor at Harvard University Graduate School of Design. She will present on mapping projects that relate landscape, ecology and urbanism and enable communities to decide what is mapped, for whom and for what purpose.
Panel to follow:
- Fred McGarry is Director of Waterloo’s Centre for Community Mapping, a platform for collaborative innovation that provides mapping research and development services to communities. He worked with Family Services Toronto and the United Way on a community-managed map of social services with city-wide potential.
- Nasim Haque, Director of Community Health at the Wellesley Institute, will outline mapping strategies, including community and concept mapping, used in the St. James Town Initiative, the Wellesley Institute’s signature and largest community-based research and capacity building initiative – focused on the health of newcomers in St. James Town.
- Clare Giovannetti (FoodShare) and Seodhna Keown, (Toronto Public Health) will discuss a collaborative food mapping project that engaged residents in three lower-income neighbourhoods in order to assess access to healthy, affordable food and inform the work of FoodShare and the Toronto Food Strategy.
- Jennifer Chan (Constituency Assistant, Ward 20) will discuss community maps developed by Councillor Adam Vaughan and Ryerson University to help residents of Ward 20 understand and have a say in the land use, development and opportunities for change in the Ward.
Facilitated by Chris Cavanagh (Catalyst Centre), a popular educator who has worked with mapping and other tools towards the commitments of the Catalyst Centre — democratic social justice education and community development.
Curated by:
Centre for City Ecology