Survey of 6000+ plots in Viwandani (Photo Blog)
In the past six weeks, Spatial Collective's team visited approximately 6000 plots in Viwandani Area in Nairobi and completed thousands of interviews touching on…
Creating landlord and plot profiles of Viwandani Area
Spatial Collective is currently conducting a door-to-door survey for the purpose of collecting data on sanitation facilities and creating landlord and plot profiles in…
Mapping Safe and Unsafe Areas in Informal Settlements
In our efforts to determine safe and unsafe areas of Soweto Kayole - as perceived by the residents, we first developed a base map…
Men’s and Women’s Perceptions of Safety Related to Mobility in Informal Settlement
How are spaces in informal settlements traversed differently according to gender? Which paths are the most travelled in a community, when and why? Does…
The Power of Community Mapping and Community Data
In June 2016, ten youth from Mathare digitized more than a thousand structures in Kayole Soweto, creating a building footprint of the area. At…
#HarlemFirst Community Mapping Workshop
In late January, I was invited by Leetha Filderman of PopTech and Cheryl Heller of the School of Visual Arts, MFA Design for Social…
PopTech Talk
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…