Image: Street map drawn onto skin, Hand Drawn Histories, Artist Waldock, J. 2016
As part of the Stay Home Stories research project, we are asking children to map and record their experiences of home during COVID-19.
Stay Home Stories aims to understand how ideas and experiences of home have changed because of the coronavirus pandemic. The Society is particularly involved with the mapping home strand of the project which encourages pupils in Key Stages 2 to 4 to take part in a nationwide mapping exercise, creating maps which explore how they understand home following lockdown.
The maps will help the project team gain a better understanding of how children and young people’s experiences of the home space may have changed during the COVID-19 restrictions, while at the same time helping to develop mapping skills and encouraging engagement with a sense of place.
In the coming months, the Stay Home Stories partners, Queen Mary University of London, University of Liverpool and National Museums Liverpool, will select maps for an online gallery of submissions.
A set of educational resources, produced by Dr Paula Owens, to accompany the mapping home strand of the project can be used by teachers to explore how their students might perceive and map their homes, their lived experiences within them, and in their local area.
Find out more about how to take part and submit your maps. We are really looking forward to seeing what you produce.
Stay Home Stories is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council as part of the UKRI rapid response to COVID-19. The project is led by Professor Alison Blunt, Queen Mary University of London, in partnership with the University of Liverpool, Birkbeck University of London, the Museum of the Home and National Museums Liverpool. This project and the associated educational resources produced are part of the Society’s support for the teaching and learning of #Geographyathome.
Find out more about Stay Home Stories and follow the project on Twitter @stayhomestories.