Sense of Place Map

Create a picture of whatever form occurs to you that addresses the three questions:

• Where am I?
• Where have I come from?
• Where am I going?

Although text is not prohibited in a Sense of Place Map, the shift of emphasis from verbal or textual reporting to pictorial representation allows new insights to emerge or insights to come to the surface. (This is akin to the effect of freewriting.)
This map can be used at the start of a project to provide an impressionistic picture of your aspirations. Or the map can be drawn at the end of the project to place the project into a longer trajectory of your work and lives. There should be no obligation to share or display what is on your map, but the typically diverse aspirations and trajectories among maps made by a group can be thought-provoking.
This version of sense of place map evolved from a more ecological version in Thomashow (1995).

Reference

Thomashow, M. (1995) Ecological Identity: Becoming a Reflective Environmentalist. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

(see Phase J)