Mapping Digital Landscape Narratives: exploring the use of social media as a passive form of community engagement in landscape architecture - a case study of the Festival du Voyageur

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dc.contributor.authorLachiver, Blaise
dc.contributor.examiningcommitteeBird, Lawrence (Urban Design Consultant) Somers, Bob (Scatliff Miller Murray) Perron, Richard (Landscape Architecture)en_US
dc.contributor.supervisorWilson Baptist, Karen (Landscape Architecture)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2016-09-15T12:48:50Z
dc.date.available2016-09-15T12:48:50Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.degree.disciplineLandscape Architectureen_US
dc.degree.levelMaster of Landscape Architecture (M.L.Arch.)en_US
dc.description.abstractThis practicum develops the concept of Mapping Digital Landscape Narratives. It is an exploration of the use of social media as a passive form of community engagement in landscape architecture. Digital landscape narratives are stories about places that are created collectively by various agents, including people, groups, organizations and communities through the Internet and the use of social media. A case study of the Festival du Voyageur in Winnipeg, Manitoba is used to explore the potential of social media as a tool in planning and design. This practicum explores the importance of social media to participatory culture. An understanding of landscape narratives is developed, and contemporary forms of representation are explored. The document explores three forms of data including original social media data, such as photographs and videos, metadata such as hashtags and locations, and social network data, which is created when people interact on social media. Research into mapping, social network analysis and online privacy outline best practices for researchers and designers of public space. A study of the Festival du Voyageur’s programming, along with an interview with the festival’s planning staff, establishes a conventional data set that outlines the festival on a city scale, a neighborhood scale, and the scale of the festival grounds. Social media data from Facebook, Instagram and Twitter are mapped and analyzed to create a complimentary data set. Ultimately an overall complex narrative is developed describing the festival from various points of view at various locations.en_US
dc.description.noteOctober 2016en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1993/31767
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.rightsopen accessen_US
dc.subjectMappingen_US
dc.subjectLandscape narrativeen_US
dc.subjectLandscape architectureen_US
dc.subjectSocial mediaen_US
dc.subjectFestival du Voyageuren_US
dc.titleMapping Digital Landscape Narratives: exploring the use of social media as a passive form of community engagement in landscape architecture - a case study of the Festival du Voyageuren_US
dc.typemaster thesisen_US
local.subject.manitobayesen_US
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