GrassrootsMapping
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A collection of readings on kids, playful exploration, and grassroots mapping
Jeff:
New information technologies in the old political economy : an exploration of community-based GIS for improving basic services for the poor in New Delhi, India - 2005 MIT DUSP dissertation by Claudia Canepa
PARTICIPATORY SPATIAL INFORMATION MANAGEMENT AND COMMUNICATION IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES - Giacomo Rambaldi, Peter A Kwaku Kyem, Mike McCall, Daniel Weiner, EJISDC, 2006
The child’s creation of a pictorial world, Claire Golomb
Curriculum on “Children as Community Researchers” - UNICEF, authored by Children’s Environment Research Group
Participatory GIS - A Paradigm Shift in Development? - Jen Osha and Daniel Weiner, 2006
Mapping for Change - 2005 International Conference on Participatory Spatial Information Management and Communication
Weiner, D. and T. Harris, 2003. ”Community-Integrated GIS for Land Reform in South Africa.” URISA Journal. 15(2): 61-73.
Bilingualism and identity: Spanish at the crossroads with other languages - Geographic dispute in Canta Gallo, in Lima, Chapter 7
Intervention: Mapping is critical! - This intervention targets the much heralded demise of the map in geography and the recently proposed “rethinking” of maps. It comprises contributions from two political geographers, a military geographer, a political scientist, and two activist cartographers and argues that there is not so much a need to “rethink” maps, but to “re-engage” with the material practices of mapping, and above all to “re-make” maps.
Mapping in a Shoebox - A Grassroots Approach for Developing the Geospatial Literacy of Elementary Children - 24th International Cartographic Conference - Jaqueline M. Anderson, Sally Hermansen, Lorraine Innes, 2009
Lots of work by Proboscis: Social Tapestries/Urban Tapestries, 2002-7 - Urban Tapestries investigated how, by combining mobile and internet technologies with geographic information systems, people could ‘author’ the environment around them; a kind of Mass Observation for the 21st Century. Like the founders of Mass Observation in the 1930s, we were interested creating opportunities for an “anthropology of ourselves” – adopting and adapting new and emerging technologies for creating and sharing everyday knowledge and experience; building up organic, collective memories that trace and embellish different kinds of relationships across places, time and communities.
BEST PRACTICES FOR SHARING SENSITIVE ENVIRONMENTAL GEOSPATIAL DATA - for Geo Connections? by AMEC Earth & Environmental, 2010
Kate:
BBC article - train station hires a Director of Fun!
Place-Logging - MIT thesis
Tube iphone app - augmented reality