Tag: Mapping

  • 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 Smart Cultural Mapping Project.  Abstract 80 years ago, Smokey the Bear was mostly talking about…

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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,” by Nancy Duxbury (Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal) and W.F. Garrett-Petts (Thompson Rivers…

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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 digital and spatial humanities. The focus is on “alternative, often analogue, mapping techniques – walking,…

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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 System Research Competition hosted by Thompson Rivers University. Their project, The Toxic Drug Poisoning Crisis in…

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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 and Engagement in Kamloops, BC, with Implications for Smaller Communities Generally.”  Three members of our…

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  • Livingmaps Network   Conference 2025

    Livingmaps Network Conference 2025

    Our thanks to LivingMaps and Heather Miles for an update on the “More-than-Human” mapping conference and the “Walking and Memory Mapping” workshop with Canadian artist Marlene Creates. Both events are scheduled for late April. Heather provides us with the following…

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  • Project EDI takes on the Hawaii International Conference on Education!

    Project EDI takes on the Hawaii International Conference on Education!

    Jayse Heer-Matonovich, along with her faculty mentor Dr. Will Garrett-Petts and community partner Principal Jonathan Brady, had the amazing opportunity to present Project EDI, which focuses on equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) within secondary schools, at the Hawaii International Conference…

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  • Update on the TRU Micro-Credential Development | Drug Aware BC. Com

    Update on the TRU Micro-Credential Development | Drug Aware BC. Com

    The Impact of the Drug Overdose Crisis on Those Working in the Trades Video/Audio Recordings Maps collected and analyzed Themes identified 2 interviews completed 1 Naloxone Workshop (in progress, first iteration completed) Additional interviews are in preparation: We are lining…

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  • Living Maps: 2024 Seminar Series Countermapping the Future

    Living Maps: 2024 Seminar Series Countermapping the Future

    We are excited to have Dallas Hunt restart our Seminar Series this Tuesday 24th September 6pm UK online with The Space NDN’S Counter Map: Mapping Indigenous Futurisms.

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