A small child holds up his handdrawn map of an Atlanta neighborhood.

Community Mapping Lab

Pictured: A CSAW Fellow with a map of Atlanta.

Project Description

Championed by CSAW Affiliate Faculty Fellow Dr. Taylor Shelton of Georgia State University, the Community Mapping Lab is inspired by Syracuse Community Geography at Syracuse University and The Community Mapping Lab at the University of Georgia. The project builds on community-engaged mapping activities at GSU from 2012-14, where CSAW Fellows in the Community Mapping Lab worked with community partners to draw from geographic theories, methods, and practices to develop cartographic products and geovisualizations to support various community-centered projects. The goal is to use mapping tools to empower community groups, whether in the form of geovisualizing data or in reframing deficit narratives into asset mapping.

Chattahoochee Brick Co.

This initiative focuses on mapping threats and contamination around the Chattahoochee Brick Company. CSAW community fellows are working with the City of Atlanta to research potential artifacts and subsurface conditions of the site.

Initiatives

A map showing the locations of 20 water monitoring locations throughout the Upper South River Watershed.

See where our CSAW Projects are located throughout Metro-Atlanta with this geovisualization—an output of the Community Mapping Lab created by award-winning cartographer and MS Fellow, Aaron Pacheco.