On Sunday 13 November 2022, we held an interactive map-making session at The MAC Birmingham. Over 60 people attended, including families, younger and older people. They contributed their ideas, imagery, photos, drawings, and recordings to a giant community wellbeing map (over 10m long!), to identify and place ideas, objects, transactions and activities which together reflect community wellbeing.
We asked, what does community wellbeing look like in the place where you live? What are those social activities, economic resources, cultural events, spaces or places that reflect a sense of 'community wellbeing' and belonging in a local area? How do they take shape in practise with the community? Some of the images produced during the session are below. We will use the themes from the map to inform future Centre priorities and activities, building on discussions during our away day in 2021 to incorporate community perspectives more directly.
This event was part of, and funded by, the ESRC Festival of Social Science.
For more information contact Rebecca Johnson, r.johnson.7@bham.ac.uk.
