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Insights into Community Participation through Participatory Mapping

This research delves into how and why people engage in different forms of participation across their lives, focusing on individual experiences and exploring connections between various participatory activities in England. Participatory mapping, utilizing local knowledge, empowers diverse involvement and fosters empowerment by identifying spaces for participation and understanding the local context. Through interactive workshops and map creation, insights on physical and social geography, site accessibility, threats, and multi-purpose locations are revealed. This method offers valuable reflections and aids in relationship building.

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Insights into Community Participation through Participatory Mapping

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  1. Landscapes of participation: Findings & lessons from community mapping Eddie Cowling and Ellie Brodie NCVO/VSSN Researching the Voluntary Sector Conference

  2. Overview • The Pathways through Participation project • What is participatory mapping? • Mapping in the Pathways project • Findings • Reflections on the method

  3. Howandwhydo people get involvedand stay involved in different forms of participation over the course of their lives?

  4. The Pathways project... • Focused primarily on the individual experience • What connections and links exist between different forms of participation? • Broad range of public, social and individual participatory activities • Exploring individual’s stories in three contrasting communities in England Middle Years Later Years Formative Years

  5. What is participatory mapping? • Draws on valuable local knowledge • Recognises local people are capable research collaborators • Encourages diverse involvement • Fosters empowerment

  6. Mapping in context A few examples... • Community mapping • Mapping as a social research tool • PGIS • Multimedia mapping • Planning for Real

  7. Participatory mapping in three case study communities: The aims • Identify places & spaces for participation • Understand the local context • Explore perceptions and understandings • Appealing introduction to the project • Relationship building

  8. Participatory mapping in three case study communities The process - 2 x mapping workshops in each case study area - 8-12 participants in each - Groups asked to draw a map of the local area, and to populate it with the sites and places where participation occurs - Reflection period following the map creation process

  9. So what did we find?

  10. The maps as representations of physical and social geography

  11. Accessibility and inclusion of sites of participation

  12. Multi-purpose and single use sites

  13. Threats to participatory sites

  14. Reflections on the method... • Visual method • Interactivity and collaborative working • Recording and analysis • Part of the wider research process www.pathwaysthroughparticipation.org.uk

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