ABOUT DMP

The ‘Digital Media Project: Youth Making Place’ (DMP) is a research and teaching project developed in collaboration with local community organizations, operating out of the Sustainability Education Research Institute. The DMP encourages youth to explore place and sustainability issues through learning and practicing digital media skills.

 

The research examines:

  • Youth identities across Aboriginal, transnational, settler populations in the context of relationships with local and global places
  • The relationship between youth identifications with various local and global places and their perspectives of sustainability and/or unsustainability
  • The uses of digital media (map-making, photography, and videography) as research, education, and dissemination methods in building and mobilizing knowledge on the relationships among youth identity, place, and sustainability
  • The implications for education policy and practice in education, particularly in light of UNESCO global policy mandates and provincial Ministry of Education policy and curricula

The Digital Media Project: Youth Making Place is funded by a SSHRC Standard Grant (2011-2015).