Outdoor Learning Conference 2025

Wayfinding means knowing where we are, where we want to go, and identifying the best route to get there. The workshop presenters will share their experiences delivering land-based programming on an urban campus to show how wayfinding has helped students develop their sense of place and belonging in the city. This mapping workshop offers an alternative way of understanding our relationship to place and provides a means of restorying urban and other places as Indigenous land. Participants will be invited to see the land through an Indigenous lens and learn about inherently place-based Indigenous knowledge systems. Participants will map place with their bodies, explore Indigenous and decolonial approaches to mapping, and learn to notice and relate to often overlooked natural and built landforms and landmarks. This 75-minute mapping activity and interactive discussion will involve critical reflections about place, wayfinding, and Indigenous kinscapes – the constellations of relationships between people, land, and place."