By Kate Nash ’23 In resurrecting the Tofurkey map for another year, I wanted to try out new techniques to make the map exciting, engaging, and user-friendly. StoryMaps provides an easy to build website creation platform, but for…
Fall into a Tofurkey
Kindly partake in this year’s Tofurkey Map, and see how the Smith community is dishing out thanks! You can share your dish by submitting a point through the survey, as demonstrated below:
COVID-19 and the Pioneer Valley Mutual Aid Map

As the pandemic began its sweep through the United States we have seen incredible mutual aid responses pop up all over the world, and in our local communities. And what better way to visualize those efforts than a map! The…
Community Mapping with Project SPARC

Project SPARC (Springfield Participatory Action Research Crew) and the Jandon Center invited the SAL to participate in their community event at Chestnut School in Springfield. We came to the event with two maps of Springfield that highlight various resources throughout…
Rewriting Our Campus Through Mapping

Excited voices bubbled in the basement of Forbes Library during a Monday afternoon teen after-school program: “Let’s build the bridge there!” “Oh! What if we planted some reeds and near the water?” “Okay, the blue dashed line is where the…
Finding Holiday Cheer

Share your holiday adventures and live vicariously through the rest of the Smith community! Click on the image below or here to participate. A glimpse of Holiday Locations from last year A map from Holidays past (the 2015-2016 Snowflake Map…
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…
Where is Your Holiday Cheer?

Share your holiday adventures and live vicariously through the rest of the Smith community! Click on the image below to participate. This Winter Break Travel Map is a new rendition of the Snowflake Map of the past, as seen below.
Gobble Gobble (Where Have the Tofurkeys Gone?)

Welcome back from Thanksgiving! We wrapped up our Tofurkey Map with 115 views – including one fan from Ireland. There were 41 contributions to this crowd-sourced break destination map. Here are the superlatives: Fanciest dish: wild rice, apple, and sausage…
Fourth Annual Tofurkey Map

Are you flying across the world for Thanksgiving break? Or maybe you’re not planning to leave your dorm for five days? In either case, we hope that you’ll contribute to this year’s Tofurkey 2017 Map, a tradition started by former Post-Bac Fellow…