Community mapping and citizen social science

The third and final event in a series of collaborations on shape shifiting urban spaces between LIVINGMAPS and UCL Urban Laboratory.

The advent of open source mapping technologies has in principle created the conditions for the emergence of a popular do-it-yourself cartography articulating the concerns, political and personal, of all citizens. In this seminar we have brought together some leading practitioners who have pioneered  the contribution of map making to the development of citizen social science, developed participatory methods of community mapping, and explored the limits and conditions of democratising the production of knowledge in and against the urban planning process.

This seminar will bring together a panel of experts to discuss participatory mapping and citizen social science. The panel includes Muki Haklay (UCL), Giota Alevizou (The Open University), Nicolas Foncy (Architect), Barbara Brayshay (Independent researcher), and John Wallett (LIVINGMAPS).

Muki is founder and director of Mapping for Change and a pioneer of citizen science. Giota has just completed an ESRC-funded project on community asset mapping. Nicolas is an architect, currently working on projects with Just Space and LIVINGMAPS. John is the design director of LIVINGMAPS and was involved in the production of A Young Persons maps and Guide to the Olympic Park.

Book tickets

• Entry: £10.00
• Concessions: £7.00