Join UBC Library and SFU Library on November 21 from 11am-12pm for a Virtual Talk on Mapping with Communities: Participatory Approaches to Research and Knowledge-Making. This event is part of GIS Day 2025, an annual worldwide celebration of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology and community. 

Community-based research, defined as research conducted with and for communities rather than on them, has drawn increasing attention from researchers in recent years. Participatory mapping approaches are valuable to this type of research by enabling communities to engage in mapping, share knowledge, generate data, and affirm community-based knowledge as a legitimate form of data. Such approaches also challenge the view of map-making as a domain reserved for experts, instead seeking to include and empower marginalized populations in mapping practices. 

In this virtual talk, we invite Meridith Sones, Researcher in the CHATR Lab,  SFU and Manager of Knowledge Mobilization for INTERACT  and Theo Lim, Associate Professor, School of Community and Regional Planning, UBC, to share their experiences with participatory mapping in their work centered around action research. 

For more information and to register visit this link: https://www.lib.sfu.ca/find/other-materials/data-gis/gis/39421