Are you a Smithie? Where in the world are you now? Well, that’s what the Smithies Around the World Map attempted to find out. In preparation for Reunion this past Spring, the SAL gathered data from the Office of Development…
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…
Summer at the SAL by Hannah Davis
It’s almost the middle of summer and things are heating up at the Smith Spatial Analysis Lab. This summer has seen the continuation of many exciting projects, and the start of a number more. As the Spatial Analysis Lab intern,…
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…
Inclusion in Action Conference Participatory Mapping Workshop
Who are you within the Smith landscape? The Spatial Analysis Lab is engaging the Smith Community in a participatory mapping workshop during the Inclusion in Action conference to encourage critical thinking about the campus and envision a more equitable landscape.…
New Spatial Analysis Fellow!
Hello! My name is Emma Harnisch, the new Spatial Analysis Post-Bacc Fellow. I graduated from Smith just last May and still call the Pioneer Valley home, for at least a bit longer. I studied geosciences while I was a student…
Upcoming Fall 2018 Workshops
Web Tools for Creating Fantasy Maps October 23, 2018 (Tuesday) 4:00–5:00 Explore tools to make maps of imaginary landscapes in preparation for Halloween. Web-mapping with ArcGIS Online November 6 (Tuesday) 4:00–5:00 Learn how to make interactive maps with ArcGIS Online.…
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…
February 2018 Mystery Map Solution
March right in to find out what the February Mystery Map was about! While the map received more than 300 views, we had modest submissions (must be fight-or-flight response to Google Forms.) Scott Gilman, our previous post-bac fellow, promptly solved…
Mystery Map 2018 Kickoff
The state of affairs for a new year can be uncertain, but your unequivocal love for map mysteries is huge! You can launch the full version here. Hint: Not sports-related despite the title, but a clue is embedded in the…