SenseOfPlaceMap

=Sense of Place Map=

Create a picture of whatever form that occurs to you -- text is allowed -- that addresses the three questions: > Where am I? > Where have I come from? > Where am I going?

By shifting from verbal or textual reports to a pictorial representation new insights emerge (or insights to come to the surface). (This is akin to the effect of guided freewriting.) This map can be used at the start of a project to provide an impressionistic picture of your aspirations. Or at the end of the project to place the project into a longer trajectory of your work and lives. There should be no obligation to share or display what is on your map, but the typically diverse aspirations and trajectories among maps made by a group can be thought-provoking.

References: This version of sense of place map evolved from a more ecological version in Thomashow, Mitchell. 1995. Ecological Identity: Becoming a Reflective Environmentalist. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.