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  • International Journal of Cultural Policy

    International Journal of Cultural Policy

    Lettau, M. (2025). Participatory methodological approaches for regenerative cultural policy. The case study of cultural mapping in the public library of Ravensburg. International Journal of…

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  • A Cultural Mapping of the FireSmart Program

    A Cultural Mapping of the FireSmart Program

    In preparation for the upcoming Community Exhibition & Research Lab at the Kamloops Museum and Archives, the Research Group gathered for a cultural mapping workshop.…

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  • Onboarding Activities for Student Researchers

    Onboarding Activities for Student Researchers

    Cultural Mapping of the FireSmart Program (May-June, 2025) Ethics To do Tools—finding them, using them  Referencing  Zotero is a handy, open-source (free) referencing tool that…

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  • The Future of Fighting and Preventing Forest Fires

    The Future of Fighting and Preventing Forest Fires

    From NPR’s public affairs program 1A, here’s a podcast on Wildfire, Mitigation Strategies, and Cultural Burning—provided here as background to our work on the Fire…

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  • Re-situating participatory cultural mapping as community-centred work

    Re-situating participatory cultural mapping as community-centred work

    The Research Group is pleased to make available a typescript of a recent book chapter on cultural mapping: “Re-situating participatory cultural mapping as community-centered work,”…

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  • Livingmaps Review Issue 17

    Livingmaps Review Issue 17

    The latest issue of Livingmaps Review is now available online! It takes a look at “deep mapping ” practices that have become popular in the…

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  • Map the System Research Competition: Undergraduate TRU Students Mapping Kamloops’ Toxic Drug Poisoning Crisis 

    Map the System Research Competition: Undergraduate TRU Students Mapping Kamloops’ Toxic Drug Poisoning Crisis 

    Jayse Heer-Matonovich, Bensly Pierre, and Loghan Eskritt were among the top three finalists and recipients of the People’s Choice Award at the 2025 Map the…

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  • Kamloops Museum and Archives, Site of the FireSmart Cultural Mapping Lab and Exhibition, July-August, 2025 

    Kamloops Museum and Archives, Site of the FireSmart Cultural Mapping Lab and Exhibition, July-August, 2025 

    Community Partnership Development Meeting Notes, May 2, 2025  “A Cultural Mapping of the FireSmart Program: Community and Social Drivers Affecting Both Neighborhood and Personal Awareness…

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