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The Importance of Participatory Mapping
This reminds me of when I try to help friends who are dealing with a difficult situation. Most of what I should be doing is just asking them questions that help them reflect on their own challenge. If you're asked questions and you're an outsider, it's usually possible to turn them around into questions to be explored by the participants. And learning to do that can be perhaps quite important. So another concept you mentioned briefly is participatory mapping. Could you tell us what that is? Yes. Well, that is asking people if they can make a map on the ground. There are methods for doing this. It all started in South India. We had special colored powders called Rangoli