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Mapping-based exercises invite participants to ground their ideas in specific locations, making abstract concepts more concrete and actionable. In an in-person setting—such as an open house, workshop, or pop-up—these activities typically use large-format printed maps placed on tables or walls. Participants can mark locations, place flags or stickers, draw directly on maps, and add written comments to explain their choices. This hands-on approach encourages conversation, spatial thinking, and collaborative sense-making, while allowing facilitators to observe patterns and clarify questions in real time.

These same mapping exercises can be extended into a hybrid engagement system by replicating them online using Konveio, including its ArcGIS integration. By using the same base maps digitally, participants who cannot attend in person can drop pins, draw boundaries, respond to prompts, and add comments asynchronously. This ensures continuity across engagement channels: in-person and online participants are responding to the same geography, questions, and framing. When designed intentionally, this approach expands access without diluting the exercise—physical maps build energy and connection, while digital mapping broadens reach, reduces time and place barriers, and creates a unified dataset that is easier to synthesize and connect back to decision-makingMapping-based exercises invite participants to ground their ideas in specific locations, making abstract concepts more concrete and actionable. In an in-person setting—such as an open house, workshop, or pop-up—these activities typically use large-format printed maps placed on tables or walls. Participants can mark locations, place flags or stickers, draw directly on maps, and add written comments to explain their choices. This hands-on approach encourages conversation, spatial thinking, and collaborative sense-making, while allowing facilitators to observe patterns and clarify questions in real time.

These same mapping exercises can be extended into a hybrid engagement system by replicating them online using Konveio, including its ArcGIS integration. By using the same base maps digitally, participants who cannot attend in person can drop pins, draw boundaries, respond to prompts, and add comments asynchronously. This ensures continuity across engagement channels: in-person and online participants are responding to the same geography, questions, and framing. When designed intentionally, this approach expands access without diluting the exercise—physical maps build energy and connection, while digital mapping broadens reach, reduces time and place barriers, and creates a unified dataset that is easier to synthesize and connect back to decision-makingMapping-based exercises invite participants to ground their ideas in specific locations, making abstract concepts more concrete and actionable. In an in-person setting—such as an open house, workshop, or pop-up—these activities typically use large-format printed maps placed on tables or walls. Participants can mark locations, place flags or stickers, draw directly on maps, and add written comments to explain their choices. This hands-on approach encourages conversation, spatial thinking, and collaborative sense-making, while allowing facilitators to observe patterns and clarify questions in real time.

These same mapping exercises can be extended into a hybrid engagement system by replicating them online using Konveio, including its ArcGIS integration. By using the same base maps digitally, participants who cannot attend in person can drop pins, draw boundaries, respond to prompts, and add comments asynchronously. This ensures continuity across engagement channels: in-person and online participants are responding to the same geography, questions, and framing. When designed intentionally, this approach expands access without diluting the exercise—physical maps build energy and connection, while digital mapping broadens reach, reduces time and place barriers, and creates a unified dataset that is easier to synthesize and connect back to decision-making

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