L.A. River School - Student Maps
Carla from the L.A. Leadership Academy holds up her personal map
In the process of discovering their neighborhoods, students are asked to draw a map of the places that are meaningful to them. This subjective experience results in a personal map that reflects students' experience and memory of their communities. These maps are not supposed to be geographically accurate, but more represent the students' mental landscape of where they live.
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Mapping Through a Personal Lens
Departures - Youth Voices

Mapping Through a Personal Lens

June 10, 2013 7:52 AM
by Rubi Fregoso
Northeast Los Angeles Riverfront:
The places, people, and objects of interest marked on their maps, collectively begin to form the student's narrative of their community.
Student Producers Collaborate on Mapping Northeast L.A.
Departures - Youth Voices

Student Producers Collaborate on Mapping Northeast L.A.

March 15, 2013 8:00 AM
by Rubi Fregoso
Northeast Los Angeles Riverfront:
As the student producers move from the personal to the collaborative phase of Youth Voices, new sets of complex relationships and stories begin to emerge.
Los Angeles River School Students Map Elysian Valley
Departures - Youth Voices

Los Angeles River School Students Map Elysian Valley

February 1, 2013 9:00 AM
by Alvaro Parra
Northeast Los Angeles Riverfront:
Students from the Los Angeles River School explore Elysian Valley with a cartographers lens.
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