organization:social sciences and humanities research council

Pourquoi cartographions nous l’espace ? - geomedia lab

▻http://geomedialab.org/fieldwork.html

Creative Fieldwork

The Geomedia Laboratory at Concordia University (Montreal) was established in 2011 within the Department of Geography Planning and Environment. This lab was born from the convergence of two growing domains: (1) geospatial technologies with the development of the geoweb; and (2) emerging mapping practices in domains such as literary studies, film studies, oral history, and in the humanities in general. The main goal of this lab is to further explore these emerging cartographic practices and to contribute to the development of new mapping applications. The work of the Geomedia lab is supported by Concordia University and funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), as well as by the Fonds de Recherche du Québec – Société et Culture (FRQSC).

#géographie_expérimentale

Northwest Passage and the Construction of Inuit pan-Arctic Identities
►http://www.paninuittrails.org/index.html?module=module.paninuittrails

https://dl.dropbox.com/s/azhjnntsvfkhdq8/inuit%20trail.png

The Atlas is one of the outcomes of the project “The Northwest Passage and the construction of Inuit pan-Arctic identities” (funded by SSHRC—the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council), and co-directed by Claudio Aporta (Marine Affairs Program, Dalhousie University), Michael Bravo (Geography, University of Cambridge), and Fraser Taylor (Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre, Carleton University). This project looks at Inuit occupancy of the Northwest Passage, through a study and documentation of Inuit traditional trails and place names, which have interconnected Inuit groups across the Arctic since time immemorial.

The two main research questions for this project are:

how extensive and significant is the historical Inuit presence along the Northwest Passage? and
how interconnected Inuit groups were before Europeans arrived?

#arctique #climat #inuit #cartographie #cartographie_participative