The ONP team were really grateful to Dr Aoife Bennett who gave up hours of her time to come and share her expertise in mapping with groups of people, without going direct to computer. Her work in Peru has involved mapping with indigenous communities and she has developed a method of creating base maps digitally, printing them on robust plastic, and overlaying transparent plastic sheets on them that people can then draw on to add their knowledge and their ideas. These transparencies will then be digitised back in Oxford.

It was fascinating seeing and handling the marked up transparent sheets that people so far away had created. We were really inspired and are adding it to the mix of options for working with local people in Oxford.