In our efforts to determine safe and unsafe areas of Soweto Kayole – as perceived by the residents, we first developed a base map of the area. Around twen...
How are spaces in informal settlements traversed differently according to gender? Which paths are the most travelled in a community, when and why? Does gender i...
How do people navigate the places in which they live? Does gender influence mobility and in what way? How do men and women access opportunities within and outsi...
Spatial Collective was hired in the spring of 2016 to develop a Geographic Information Systems-based participatory mapping approach to support Kenya Informal Se...
In June 2016, ten youth from Mathare digitized more than a thousand structures in Kayole Soweto, creating a building footprint of the area. At the same time, tw...
The final step in community land mapping in Tana River County was to design the maps of the two targeted communities. Previous steps are described here, here an...
This is a follow up on the previous post. We began our field work on mapping community land by holding a large forum with the representatives of Chana and Handa...
We are currently in Tana River supporting the work of Kenya Land Alliance (KLA) and their partners Namati and Oxfam in using mapping and Geographic Information ...
In late January, I was invited by Leetha Filderman of PopTech and Cheryl Heller of the School of Visual Arts, MFA Design for Social Innovation (DSI) program, to...
I was recently honored by being selected as a 2015 PopTech Social-Innovation Fellow. I had the pleasure to participate in a week long training program with eigh...