UW Cartography Lab's 12th Annual Design Challenge
Visualizing Dispossession, Envisioning Land Back
Event Details
Date
Saturday, February 28, 2026
Time
All day
Location
Cartography Lab, Science Hall
Description
The design challenge is a day-long event that invites students, faculty, and staff from around campus to collectively think and work through a mapping-related topic.
Our challenge this year is in partnership with the group of scholars who published the Indigenous Lands Dispossession In Wisconsin and Beyond Educational Modules, and they will be participating in a panel at our weekly Yi-Fu Tuan lecture the day before.
RSVP/registration required (link to come).
Our challenge this year is in partnership with the group of scholars who published the Indigenous Lands Dispossession In Wisconsin and Beyond Educational Modules, and they will be participating in a panel at our weekly Yi-Fu Tuan lecture the day before.
RSVP/registration required (link to come).
Cost
Free
Contact
Accessibility
We value inclusion and access for all participants and are pleased to provide reasonable accommodations for this event. Please call 608-262-2138 or email news@geography.wisc.edu to make a disability-related accommodation request. Requests should be made by Saturday, February 14, 2026, though reasonable effort will be made to support late accommodation requests.