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Tatiana Khoury

MS in Environmental Design - 2 yr Furniture and Fixture — Graduate Spatial Experience Design
Course:
GPRT-305 Information Design
Faculty:
Allison Goodman

National Park Service Map Redesign

This map redesign for the National Park Service project was in collaboration with Austin Liu and Annika Lee. Each of us had different locations with different terrains. As a team, we decided on how every single detail of the map would be designed. After we created the system and implemented it, each person created their own extension of the map. For my map I decided to focus on the native people of Lake Clark National Park in Alaska, the Dena'ina.
Learning Outcomes:
This project taught me so much about collaboration and making decisions together. It was really cool to see what every team member brought to the table and how it allowed us to work effectively. I also learned a lot about creating a system, making decisions collaboratively and being organized throughout the design process as well as with the final decisions, so that someone else can follow the same system down the line.
My National Park was huge in comparison to my team's Parks, so this played a huge factor in our system, design and scale of printout.
This is an interactive digital map that would be found in front of the parks visitor center
For my map in context, I created the whole map in the Dena'ina language. This is to respect the people and their land as we are visitors there. This also invites visitors to learn more and be educated on the Native land and people.
Once you click on a location on the map, it will pop up in Dena'ina with the option to hear the translation. I wanted people to be able to learn not only by reading but listening as well.
There is also a quote of the day feature on the interface which allows visitors to learn more about the history.
To respect those who came before, I end my presentation by saying thank you in Dena'ina