Navigating the Garden: Researching Wayfinding and Mapping in Botanic Gardens
Clancy Wilmott, Professor
Geography
Closed. This professor is continuing with Fall 2024 apprentices on this project; no new apprentices needed for Spring 2025.
This project is in collaboration with the UC Berkeley Botanic Gardens. It focuses on the use of signage and interpretive materials within the Crops of the World garden (and the gardens more broadly), with specific focus on geographical, cartographical and decolonial frameworks. It would suit an undergraduate student with interests in the environmental humanities, cartography and graphic design, or environmental science.
Role: ~Duties include:~
+ Developing a systematic list of current literature on signage in
botanical gardens, galleries, libraries and museums
+ Undertaking research on visual and interactive communication + media
with local, state and national botanic gardens
+ Soliciting and arranging research interviews with local and
international botanists, conservationists, educators and communicators
+ Producing a visual database of botanic garden signage from gardens
across the world
+ Liaising with stakeholders at the UC Berkeley Botanic Gardens
+ Identifying grants for future research + collaboration opportunities
~ Learning outcomes ~
+ Develop a literacy in critical cartography, botanical science and
mapping
+ Develop professional qualitative research skills
+ Research management including project databases, folders
+ Stakeholder management and communication for community engaged research
+ Literature identification and review
Qualifications: ~ Key skills and qualifications:~
+ Demonstrated interest in environmental humanities, cartography or
environmental science
+ Demonstrated ability to learn quickly and independently
+ Demonstrated professionalism, self-motivation and conscientiousness
Hours: to be negotiated
Related website: https://studiogeo.berkeley.edu/
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