exercise · all tools
Socio-Spatial Mapping
Depth · what it can open●○○○1 — informational
Holding · facilitation2 — facilitator
Trust · group readiness★any
Disclosure · what is sharednone
On location, groups map a place's functional, natural, and social qualities — layering direct observation with local knowledge gathered on site — and integrate what the maps disagree about. Perspective skills practiced with boots on the ground.
Practical
- Time
- 90-120 min
- Group
- 4–24 · small-group
- Settings
- outdoors
- Materials
- Printed maps, clipboards, transparent sheets, notebooks
- Mechanisms
- systems-sensing, perspective-taking, open-awareness
- Change scope
- state → skill · repeatable
Origin & where it lives
Katusha Sol via Transition Makers Toolbox (IIS UvA) — Participatory mapping / urban field pedagogy
Instructions: open online
In this directory via Transition Makers Toolbox
status: checked · added 2026-08-25