Mapping Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion

Our Projects

Our projects seek impactful social change in multiple fields

Project EDI


Project EDI involves students, validates their experiences and insights, moves beyond mere EDI compliance, and, when done well, helps build an inclusive community. Capturing the local EDI landscape visually, in writing, and in conversation with students, their teachers and administrators, cultural mapping presents an innovative and even necessary complement to existing EDI approaches. The mapping makes individual experiences visible and public, keeping them local and inclusive.

The Pride Project


The Research Group’s association with the Pride Project began with an invitation. The Director and Curator of the Salmon Arm Arts Council and Gallery wanted to extend the community’s Pride Week celebrations and exhibition by adding a research component. They wanted to know how cultural mapping might help provide evidence for progressive policy change—to create safer cultural spaces for the City’s LGBTQ2S+ Community.

EmpowerHER Project


Artist-researchers Marnie Badham and Emily Dundas Oke invite the local women of Kamloops/ T’Kemlups to share their perceptions and attachments to place through this cultural mapping and participatory art project. Supported by United Way Thompson Nicola Cariboo and Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, March 2018.

EmpowerHER Project