Written by Based in São Paulo, Brazil, the Social Service of Commerce (SESC) is an organization aiming to improve professionals’ and their families' quality of life and well-being through sociocultural education initiatives. A recent initiative, titled 'Education for Sustainability', deployed Mango’s advanced mapping and data capabilities to create an interactive education tool for communities to learn about socio-environmental issues in their local area.
The Education for Sustainability Project
The Education for Sustainability project includes initiatives and programs that take place at the SESC Guarulhos site. Guarulhos is the second-most populous city in the state of São Paulo and the thirteenth in Brazil, with a population of 1,392,121.
Photo: Lúcio Érico – Mapped Projection
The SESC Guarulhos site has a variety of activities for visitors, including debates, courses, workshops and guided tours that focus on the socio-environmental issues specific to Guarulhos. The SESC Guarulhos site also prioritizes knowledge sharing of findings and experimentations related to matters of urban occupation, preservation of water resources, agroecology, waste reduction, reuse and recycling, composting, thermal islands and climate change.
The Problem Mango Solved
The SESC Guarulhos site includes a CEA technology project designed to encourage participant autonomy, creating a space for visitors to foster their own insights into the Guarulhos area with a "view to contributing …. on the need for change and [the] forms of individual and collective action to achieve it". To help generate these insights, the site features workshop areas with interactive features that allow visitors to observe urban occupation, water networks, fauna and flora on a vast scale.
Photo: Alexandre Leopoldino – Mapped Projection
Results
Mango provided an easy, fast way for SESC to create an interactive map using georeferenced data on the Guarulhos area to allow visitors to zoom in and explore specific areas, locations, rivers, streets and neighbourhoods of interest. As a result, visitors are able to conduct individual investigations on the socio-environmental issues prevalent in Guarulhos by quickly accessing each area's information.
“The [MangoMap] platform met all project needs as it enables input data to be very easily viewed and understood by visitors.”
—Denise Minichelli Marçon, Education Management for Sustainability and Citizenship, SESC
