Voice Map Trekking

• Main Author: Klassen, Michael John
• Other Authors: Eaton, Marcella (Landscape Architecture) Wilson Baptist, Karen (Landscape Architecture)
• Format: Others
• Language: en_US
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: oral histories; site analysis; landscape experiences; voices; interactive mappings; Canadian Prairies
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1993/3010

The site analysis and mapping methods in the design and planning professions follow a standardized quantitative and qualitative analyis of place that favors a design process which can limit creativity and render it difficult to do anything with the normative. This work is an exploration of the development of a design approach and method that uses voice mapping as a basis for design. The voice maps contain oral histories and personal accounts of landscape experiences. Voice mapping is employed not only as a method or for site analysis but also as a generator or ideas. Voice Map Trekking is explored through a trek in the Canadian Arctic and across the Canadian Prairies. Two specific landscapes were chosen as bases for testing concepts - one near St. Gertrude SK and the other near Morinville AB. === February 2008