Play & recreation
Where youth spend leisure time, what draws them out, and what prevents participation.
YOUTH INSIGHT • SPATIAL STORYTELLING • ACTIONABLE DATA
We transform stories of everyday life into Actionable Insight.
The Action Mapping Project works with youth to transform lived experience into actionable spatial insight. We help schools, parks, cities, transit agencies, and regional partners understand the everyday lives of youth. And we work closely with those partners to integrate AMP Insight into their existing placemaking and decision-making systems.
15,000+Youth voices in AMP's recent regional work
100,000 + Spatial storiesDrawn by youth to reveal local experience
Longitudinal indicatorsTurning lived experience into measurable context
Actionable InsightMaps, reports, systems, and planning tools
WHAT CONVENTIONAL DATA MISSES
Most community data tells you what exists. AMP helps you to understand everyday life.
Conventional GIS data are useful for mapping the locations of parks, trails, bus stops, schools, or neighborhood boundaries. It usually cannot show where youth feel at ease, where movement becomes difficult, where play is happening, or where a place exists on paper but fails in everyday life.
HOW AMP WORKS
Listen. Map. Measure. Act.
AMP begins with lived experience and ends with decisions partners can use. Click through the process to see how a story becomes spatial insight.
LISTEN
Youth share stories of everyday life.
AMP curriculum invites young people to reflect on the places they use, avoid, love, struggle with, and want to change.
CURRENT PROCESS
Youth don’t just answer questions. They map experience.
Using StoryTeller Spatial Intelligence, participants can draw routes, places, boundaries, and areas directly onto a map while explaining what happened there.
Those mapped stories become AMP indicators, reports, and decision-ready insight.
SEE THE TRANSFORMATION
Drag from raw story to actionable insight.
This is the AMP idea in one interaction: lived experience on one side, interpreted spatial insight on the other.
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YOUTH STORY
AMP INSIGHT
WHAT PARTNERS LEARN
Core dimensions of youth experience.
Mobility & access
Routes used, routes avoided, barriers to movement, and opportunities to improve access.
Belonging & safety
Where youth feel at ease, where they feel unsafe, and how place conditions shape comfort and connection.
Actionable planning
How insight can support programming, park investment, mobility planning, placemaking, and evaluation.
SEE WHAT AMP PRODUCES
Reports, maps, field notes, and systems.
FIELD NOTES
Neighborhood insight in a compact format
Maps, quotes, qualitative themes, word clouds, and place-specific opportunities.
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BEAVERTON
Play → Belonging
4,471 youth and nearly 50,000 stories translated into a map book, field guide, indicators, and strategies.
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MOBILITY
Where movement becomes difficult
Friction indicators identify the geography of barriers to walking, biking, scootering, and rolling.
TRANSIT
Route-level insight
AMP insight can be delivered alongside rider, GIS, and secondary data inside partner technology systems.
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REGIONAL
Shared regional context
Neighborhood and domain analytics help public-serving agencies identify resource gaps and compare areas.
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CURRICULUM
The work begins with youth
AMP curriculum creates a structured way for youth to reflect, map, discuss, and explain their everyday experience.
APPLICATIONS OF AMP INSIGHT
One method. Different decision environments.
AMP insight can be applied wherever organizations need a more human understanding of place.
Parks Insight
Play, belonging, programming, access, and park-specific opportunities.
Mobility Insight
Movement, friction, active transportation, access, corridors, routes, and stops.
Youth Insight
Persistent youth experience embedded in school, neighborhood, and public-planning conversations.
Regional Insight
Community experience layered into regional planning, services, resources, and neighborhood analytics.
TECHNOLOGY PARTNER
AMP uses StoryTeller Spatial Intelligence, provided by TRāL.
StoryTeller is not an AMP product. It is the spatial intelligence platform provided by our technology partner, TRāL. AMP uses StoryTeller when projects benefit from interactive mapping, persistent spatial data, longitudinal indicators, dashboards, or live Insight Systems.
AMP brings
Community relationships, curriculum, youth engagement, research design, indicator development, analysis, interpretation, and recommendations.
TRāL provides
StoryTeller survey technology, spatial data infrastructure, interactive hubs, persistent analytics, and system delivery.
OUR ETHIC
People are not data points.
Community members are experts in their own lives. AMP creates ways for those experiences to remain visible after a workshop, survey, planning process, or public meeting ends.
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LET'S BUILD SOMETHING USEFUL
What do you need to understand about your community?
Tell us the decision you are trying to make. We will help identify what lived experience could make visible.