Maps that Engage and Promote Change Workshop – May 14 & 17, 2018

Learn to create maps that affect social change with design thinking principles at the Maps that Engage and Promote Change Workshop this coming week. Please register here.

On Day One: (Monday, May 14 in the Design Thinking Studio – Capen Annex)

Learn about the lineages of cartography with particular emphasis on critical cartography and counter-mapping
Iterate through various brainstorm activities for mapspiration
Practice the design thinking process with a partner
Opportunity for in-depth discussion

On Day Two: (Thursday, May 17 in the SAL – Sabin-Reed 104)

Hands-on experience with web-mapping using ArcGIS Online Getting Started in ArcGIS Online Worksheet
Create topic-specific, user-centered maps designed to inform policy or change

View Detailed Agenda

Resources

SAL’s Blended Learning Modules
Critical Cartography & Links to Examples
- “Destabilizing the Map through Critical Cartography and Resistance” – Einat Manoff
- Biomapping – Christian Nold
- Queering the Map – Lucas LaRochelle
- Bicycle Comfort Level Map – Kate Chanba
- Segregated Roads – Visualizing Palestine ; Walking the Green Line
- Native Land Map – Alison Jones
- 500 Years of Black Resistance (The Decolonial Atlas) – Jordan Engel
- US Household Carbon Footprint (The Decolonial Atlas) – UC Berkeley CoolClimate Network
- Disputed Territories (website currently unavailable; article from the Economist)
Crowdsourced Snack Map from Day One
List of Favorite Maps for Collage
- 1992 USGS DEM of the USA – Thelin and Pike
- Geologic Map of England and Wales – William Smith
- Inuit Cartography from Topografisk atlas Grønland
- London Tube Maps
- L’archipel de Palestine orientale – Julian Bousac
- They Would Not Take Me There
Spatial Thinking X Design Thinking
- Design Thinking in Geography (video)– Steve Mouldey
- Spatial Thinking & Design Thinking Similarities and Differences – Thomas Fisher
- How My Geography Major Prepared Me to be a Product Designer – Alexandra Prokhorova
Practicing Cartography:
- Five Steps to Practicing User-Centered Cartography – Kate Chanba
- En Piste: An Interview with James Niehues – Jocko Weyland & James Niehues
- From SAL’s Design Thinking template – Six radical ideas of map design:
  - “Stumbling stones” in Berlin
  - Boston Coastline: Future Past
  - SAL’s Mill River Walking Tour Story Map
Examples in Research:
- Kim, A.M. 2015. “Critical cartography 2.0: From “participatory mapping” to authored visualizations of power and people.” Landscape and Urban Planning 142: 215-225. DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2015.07.012
- Lloyd, D. & Dykes, J. 2011. “Human-Centered Approaches in Geovisualization Design: Investigating Multiple Methods Through a Long-Term Case Study.” Transactions in Visualization and Computer Graphics 17, no. 12: 2498-2507. doi: 10.1109/TVCG.2011.209
- Robinson, A. C., Chen, J., Lengerich, E. J., Meyer, H. G., & MacEachren, A. M. 2005. “Combining Usability Techniques to Design Geovisualization Tools for Epidemiology”. Cartography and Geographic Information Science 32, no. 4: 243–255. http://doi.org/10.1559/152304005775194700
- Roth, Robert E., Ross, Kevin S., MacEachren, Alan M. 2015. “User-Centered Design for Interactive Maps: A Case Study in Crime Analysis.” ISPRS Int. J. Geo-Inf. 4, no. 1: 262-301. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi4010262