The Ethnography Lab is sponsoring an ethnographic workshop on the so-called “Freedom Convoy” to reflect on our experiences of Ottawa last January and the changes that have persisted ever since.
When the “Freedom Convoy” occupied Ottawa for three weeks in the winter of 2022, it had radical impacts on how Carleton students were able to move through the city to their workplaces, homes, and social spaces. On January 27, 2023 from 3-5pm, the Carleton Ethnography Lab will be hosting a facilitated ethnographic mapping session that asks: how did students adapt their movements and place-making strategies in response to the convoy’s transformation of space? What new meanings were created as a result? Students will be invited to draw their routes and identify newly found safe places and noteworthy locations on a physical map of Ottawa provided by the Ethnography Lab. By the end of the session, the participants will have created an archival map–to be displayed digitally on the Ethnography Lab website–of how Carleton students created new meaning in city spaces forever altered by the convoy.
The workshop will be held January 27th, from 3 to 5pm, in room 3228 Richcraft Hall. Drop-ins welcome.
