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Illustration in a playful cartoon style showing six children’s faces around a bright green map. The map includes doodle icons of a tree, bicycle, house, heart, water drop, and medical cross, representing community and wellbeing. In the background is a black silhouette of the UK Parliament with Big Ben. A hand holds a small green plant on the right, symbolising growth and natural health.

Public Map Platform contributes evidence to UK Parliament

The Public Map Platform’s work has been recognised in evidence submitted to the UK Parliament. By contributing to the Education Select Committee’s inquiry, PMP demonstrates how locally rooted mapping and the voices of young people can influence national policy.

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Prof. Flora Samuel
26/08/2025
Tools for Transition: Design Museum London Exhibition Celebrating the Public Map Platform

Tools for Transition: Design Museum London Exhibition Celebrating the Public Map Platform

Public Map Platform (PMP) is on show. The Design Museum's exhibition will present how the project is being used across Ynys Môn—pairing Welsh bardic tradition with contemporary environmental action. Through work made with local children and young people during the 2024 Lle Llais events, visitors can explore cultural mapping created on PMP and see how community values are recorded spatially to inform planning, influence decisions, and support Wales’ Well-being of Future Generations Act.

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Prof. Alec Shepley
22/08/2025
PMP on Show at Pontio: Bardic Traditions, Young Voices, and Cultural Mapping

PMP on Show at Pontio: Bardic Traditions, Young Voices, and Cultural Mapping

Public Map Platform is on display at Pontio, Bangor this autumn, charting the project’s collaboration between Welsh bards and local children and young people on Ynys Môn during the 2024 Lle Llais events. Immersive exhibits reveal how cultural mapping on PMP is shaping place-based stories, belonging, and community well-being.

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Prof. Alec Shepley
22/08/2025
A welsh lanscape

Sharing our inclusive and trauma-informed approach

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Dr. Rachel Gwenllian Hughes
27/01/2025
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Job Alert - Seeking Community Mappers for 2025

The community mappers will work in schools, leisure centres and events across the area helping children and young people create data for our community made maps.

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Aeronwy Williams
07/12/2024
Professor Flora Samuel stands at a lectern in front of an audience with a slide showing maps projected on a screen behind her.

Public Map Platform at GeoCom 2024

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Dr. Rachel Gwenllian Hughes
02/12/2024
Two young women are being filmed discussing the wellbeing economy

Public Map Platform informs discussion around Wales’ readiness for a transition to a wellbeing economy

Public Map Platform has collaborated with Wellbeing Economy Cymru as part of their research to understand people’s views about Wales’ readiness for a transition to a wellbeing economy.

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Dr. Rachel Gwenllian Hughes
19/11/2024
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Lle Llais arrives at Ynys Môn!

Lle Llais – a journey through the stunning landscapes of Ynys Môn is currently underway! Tristian Evans writes on the background and purpose of these multisensory events for children and young people, as part of the Public Map Platform’s engagement activities.

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Dr. Tristian Evans
28/08/2024
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Job Alert - We're Seeking Community Mappers

The community mappers will work in schools, leisure centres and events across the area helping children and young people create data for our community made maps.

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Aeronwy Williams
17/04/2024
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Community Mapping Project Assistant Roles - Future Leaders Programme 2024

5 great paid opportunities for young people to contribute over the summer.

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Aeronwy Williams
21/02/2024
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Help us design the Rural Roaming Room!

Design and prototype with us at Ucheldre Arts Centre, Holyhead this February

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Dr. Tristian Evans
31/01/2024

Press & Mentions

The Public Map Platform has been featured at La Biennale di Venezia 2025
Wrexham University’s Pathways to Impact blog features Public Map’s work turning research into action on wellbeing and climate resilience.
Tristian Evans discussed music relating to places on Anglesey on Rhys Mwyn’s programme on Radio Cymru. Examples from Tristian’s musical map were played, which is being developed as a passion project for the Public Map Platform.
"As the looms travelled around the island, they grew a skin of stories, found objects and drawings of favourite places."
Public Map featured on Dros Frecwast on BBC Radio Cymru on the 30th September - listen from 25:06. [available until 28th October]
We're thrilled to share that BBC Cymru Fyw has published a lovely piece on Public Map and Lle Llais.
Public Map Platform features in the Autumn edition of Cynllunio, the Journal of RTPI Cymru. In it, Professor Scott Orford provides an overview of the project and how it will help planners and planning decisions.
We’re thrilled to that Public Map Platform is showcased in the first issue of Future Observatory – the Design Museum’s new online journal on new thinking around design research, ecology, and a future.
Project bard Gillian Brownson has written a piece about the dark-skied inspiration Ynys Môn provides for her forthcoming engagement work with children on the island.
"The data gathered as part of this project will be useful to local authorities beyond Anglesey, and will inform their decision making as they pursue their own green transitions."
"It’s important that we find ways to record children and young people’s views on climate change. They are the future generation who will be affected by the decisions of policymakers and planners. Despite this, their views are often overlooked and so the aim of this project is to give them a voice."
"The map layers will constantly grow with information and sophistication, reconfigured according to local policy and boundaries."
"...by working closely with communities, the projects will also make sure that local views and experiences are front and centre in our transition to a cleaner, more secure energy system."
"This will enable local authorities to capture the social, environmental and cultural value in a way that feeds into their systems and processes when monitoring the green transition."
Working towards a future that prioritises the wellbeing of people and planet.
Public Map Platform is being led by Cambridge, Cardiff and Wrexham Universities and is part of the Future Observatory - the Design Museum’s national research programme for the green transition. The project is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. This website does not use cookies and does not collect personally identifying information.