Team Members

Erika Block
Chris Cummings

Overview

The Mobile Mapping Museum is a mobile exhibit about seeing, understanding and creating maps of real and imagined spaces.

The exhibit will map its own journey. In addition to fixed, onsite mapping activities and experiences, visitors will contribute to an evolving mapping and storytelling piece that connects people from different places around the world, within the physical space and in an online space.

The project will gather location information on visitors and the exhibit sites for use as source material for both the evolving exhibit and the online portion of the project.

We’ve been thinking a lot about maps and the stories they tell, not only about the places they locate, but also about the people who make them. Denis Woods writes that maps are as important for what they don’t include as for what they do include. Read More »

Based on a developmentally-specifc sequence of activity areas that address the National Geography Standards, various activities will be designed for different age groups, ranging from 3-12 year olds.

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The Locatomator system allows visitors to collectively build a database of stories, images and sounds at the museum using a special device, or at home using their own mobile device or PC. It is a digital recording system that you can use to tag your location while recording video, sound and still images.

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A dynamic web site serves as a learning and community mapping hub, with activities, reference materials and a growing database of related maps and stories.  There will be opportunities to connect with people from different locations who choose to participate in an evolving online mapping process, whether or not they’ve been able to visit the physical museum.

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In the words of the Common Ground Community Mapping Project:

“There are opportunities at every grade level to use map-making as a flexible and fun educational tool to develop a wide range of student skills. Map-making fosters holistic thinking, provides opportunities for collaborative decision-making and builds links between schools and community.

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We have identified a variety of commercial and educational institutions to partner with in order to help realize the technical and logistical challenges of this project.

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