Kamloops mapping project reveals where women find safety, danger and beauty in city

Hundreds of women in Kamloops, B.C., have helped create a map of the city that marks areas where they feel safe and unsafe, in a new participatory art project.

More than 800 women were surveyed for the EmpowerHer mapping project, created by artist-researchers Marnie Badham and Emily Dundas Oke. The map was unveiled to the public this week.

“We had lots of information but we also wanted to find a way to visualize that,” Dundas Oke said.

The project asked women to answer four main questions:

Where do you feel safe? Where is there beauty? Where do you feel unsafe? Where are