Mapping Accessible Futures Symposium

About the Event

The Mapping Accessible Futures Symposium brings together leading thinkers on accessible mapping from a wide range of different disciplinary perspectives. The Symposium seeks to bridge interdisciplinary conversations and collaborations towards sustainable, responsive, adaptive, and intersectional accessible mapping solutions.

August 13, 2026 - 10am to 1pm

Join us online!

​10am to 1pm Public presentations and round table:
The public presentations and roundtable sessions will be open to the public. all  non-presenters (those not given a formal invite) will be asked to attend online.

All welcome!

Join Zoom Meeting
https://ualberta-ca.zoom.us/j/97956901843?pwd=Qbv2R4W9CwxxDq1myLEg3nip0hoCTV.1

Schedule

​Public Sessions

• 10:00 Welcome, Access & Orientations
• ​1010-11:40 Lab introductions 5-10 minutes each (If you have slides, share through zoom)
  • Name(s)
  • High level intro to how each lab/project works on accessibility/equity and mapping 
  • What aspects of the accessibility mapping challenbge is your lab most passionate about or best poised to lead work around?
  • (If helpful, show us an example of your work? or example of things you have developed that can support everyone else’s work)
• 11: 40 Break & informal discussion & Q & A
• 12:00 - 1:00: Collaborative Roundtable around key questions
  • ​What are some of your hopes for what access mapping could be or do within 5 years if we had the right team/funding/time?
  • What do you see as some of the big questions or challenges on the road to achieving this?
  • (How) do the diverse disciplines help us meet some of those challenges?

Materials and Links

• Transcripts and live notes available through Zoom in the meeting.
• Danielle Peers presentation on disability justice & institutional approaches

Participating Labs/Units

• Just Movements CreateSpace (disability justice; Kinesiology, Sport, and Recreation- UofA)
• Disability Cultures and Access in the Office of the Vice Provost (Access, Community + Belonging, UofA)
• ​Thrivin' Lab: Transportation Health and Resilience In Vulnerable and Interdependent Networks (Transport Engineering, UofA)
•  Accessible Mapping Research Lab (Geography, UofC)​
• Aidan Lab (Autism, Neurodiversity, & Academic Achievement) Education, UofA)
• Justice in Environments of Leisure Lab (Kinesiology, Sport, and Recreation - UofA)
• Rehabilitation Robotics Laboratory & Click n’ Push Accessibility  (Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine, UofA)
• The Steadward Centre, and the Canadian Disability Participation Project 2.0 (Play group)