Flip Charts And Foldout Tables For Evidence Based Community Action

From young children to cabinet ministers, West End Winnipeg residents lend their artistic talents to map the resources and needs of their neighbourhood. The community feast and asset mapping event were organized with the South Valour Residents Association as part of a critical participatory action research project that puts anti-oppressive approaches to community safety into action. Here in an old community centre a collection of markers, sticky notes, flip chart paper, and painters’ tape were key ingredients to figure out the neighbourhood’s next steps and strengthen the foundation of community learning and practice. The research project is a vehicle for community capacity building and neighbourhood action as well as for co-generating knowledge about safety.