Einat Manoff is an urban designer and a scholar-activist whose research focuses on participatory methods and theories, including Participatory Action Research (PAR), community-based planning and counter-mapping. Working with these inclusionary approaches, she collaborates with communities to promote local based action, intervention and research within sites of injustice. Einat is currently a Ph.D. student in the Environmental Psychology program at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She teaches Cultural Geography and Urban Affairs at the CUNY colleges. She is the 2013-2014 URBAN Research Fellow at the Public Science Project (PSP).
Maps play a principal role in the representation and comprehension of spatial knowledge. They are tools created with particular skill,…
