Tag: Mapping
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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, Thompson Rivers University (TRU) is inviting residents of Kamloops to participate in creating personal maps…
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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 the FireSmart™ program, now open at the Kamloops Museum and Archives until Saturday, August 30,…
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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 Cultural Policy, 31 (4): 482-96. This recently published article draws upon aspects of our research…
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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. Our newly hired student research assistants, Lauren Schneider and Suzette Netto, were introduced to university…
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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 can help us store, annotate, and reference articles, websites, etc. This makes citations and the…
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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
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
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
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…