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  • Mapping local knowledge: TRU students guide fire awareness exhibition

    Mapping local knowledge: TRU students guide fire awareness exhibition

    Communities across B.C. are increasingly confronted with the challenges from wildfires, highlighting the pressing need for proactive engagement and education. In response to this need,…

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  • The Kamloops Museum and Archives and Thompson Rivers University Present HOT TOPIC

    The Kamloops Museum and Archives and Thompson Rivers University Present HOT TOPIC

    28 July 2025 The Kamloops Museum and Archives and Thompson Rivers University are excited to present HOT TOPIC, a new exhibition and cultural mapping of…

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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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