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
Instructions
- Where
- transitionmakers.nl/tool/socio-spatial-mapping — Transition Makers Toolbox, open
- Availability
- Open online — published at the link, free to read
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0 per the Transition Makers footer; its badge links CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 — variant unresolved, see source record
Source link checked 29 Aug 2026 — unchanged since we recorded it on 28 Aug 2026
This directory describes and points home; the instructions stay with the people who made them.
Origin
Katusha Sol via Transition Makers Toolbox (IIS UvA) — Participatory mapping / urban field pedagogy
In this directory via Transition Makers Toolbox
status: checked · added 2026-08-25