36.2100, FYI: Workshop at ISPN 2025: Systematising Participatory Toponymic Diagnostics During Street Addressing and Settlement Mapping Operations (South Africa)

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Subject: 36.2100, FYI: Workshop at ISPN 2025: Systematising Participatory Toponymic Diagnostics During Street Addressing and Settlement Mapping Operations (South Africa)

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Date: 04-Jul-2025
From: Chrismi Loth [kongresETFB at ufs.ac.za]
Subject: Workshop at ISPN 2025: Systematising Participatory Toponymic Diagnostics During Street Addressing and Settlement Mapping Operations


Presenter: Prof Frédéric Giraut (Geneva University, Switzerland),
UNESCO Chair in Inclusive Toponymy “Naming the World”
26 November
10:30-12:30
Protea Hotel, Clarens (South Africa)
Face-to-face event
R1 000 (or R1 200 for both workshops)
More information:
https://www.ufs.ac.za/conferences/conference/2025-ispn-home
Programme Outline:
The presenter will share and discuss elements of a resolution at the
UN Forum on Minorities Issues. In a nutshell, the proposal is to take
advantage of collaborative digital mapping opportunities and official
addressing operations to promote and make visible vernacular and
minority toponymic corpora, based on collaborative or even
participatory toponymic diagnoses to be included in addressing and
digital mapping protocols.
i) Visibility of ‘minority’ place names: Undeniable progress in last
decades… But there are setbacks, recessions, risks and delays.
ii) The digital turn: Opportunity for inclusive toponymy? The case of
alternative names options in OpenStreetMap and other toponymic
repositories.
iii) Main recommendation: Promoting vernacular participatory toponymic
diagnostics during street addressing and settlement mapping
operations. Supplementing official toponymic databases (nomenclature)
with vernacular and minorities databases or inventories and related
set of proposals for future or alternative naming.
iv) Discussion on inspiring initiatives in different contexts.

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics




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