HOW-TO: Create Your Own Critical Campus Tour
This how-to guide has been created as part of our experience and process of developing the McGill Critical Campus tour for the More than Words project retreat. While creating the tour, we continuously reflected and refined our content, language and routing to ensure that the tour was presented in a truthful but sensitive and nontriggering fashion. We hope this guide will help other institutions and universities investigate and be aware of the space they occupy.
Where are you? Where are you from? Whose land are you on? How do we benefit from what's offered here?
Who are you making this for? (Indigenous Peoples, Settlers, etc.) Who do you want to highlight and why?
What's being highlighted Notable spaces Locations Events People Artifacts
Historical information about the area. You can often refer to a Nation's website for resources. Who's talking about these spaces in the area? why are these specific spaces being talked about?
Pick your stops Map your route Consider physical accessibility Create a guide to help highlight key points that you want to say on your tour
Questions to ask participants, that will prompt them to think critically through the tour Additional resources for participants to do their own research
Do a trial run of your tour and then make necessary adjustments. Consider how you will ensure the content is critical while being mindful not to use potentially triggering language or share harmful information with the participants. Following this guide, you can also make your own virtual and interactive tour using thinglink! https://www.thinglink.com/
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