Participatory Mapping Laboratory

Context

The Participatory Mapping Laboratory is a space for working with new mapping technologies. The emphasis is on participation and collaboration between students, professors and members of Indigenous communities to develop new ways of representing Indigenous relations to ancestral territories. Finally, the Participatory Mapping Laboratory is an important spearhead for the Abitibi-Témiscamingue region in that the research and mapping projects carried out therein contribute to a better understanding and better representation of the territory's cultural and environmental assets.

Research objectives

The mapping projects developed by the Laboratory serve as tools for transmitting territorial knowledge to younger generations of Indigenous people, including toponymic knowledge, Indigenous land tenure systems, traditional travel routes, portage sites and important cultural sites. These projects also make it possible to map the overlapping or superimposition of different land regimes, both indigenous and non-indigenous.

Partners

• Members of Indigenous communities
• University researchers
• University research centres
• Graduates