Geography 192: Team Semirara 2026 co-creates P3DM with community residents of Barangay Semirara, Caluya, Antique

Last July 9, July 10 and July 13, the Team Semirara of the Geography 192 field classes for midyear 2026 held its culminating activity: the Participatory 3D Mapping or P3DM that aims to engage the community to create their own tangible, representative and functional 3D map.

The three-day activity held at the Pension House, Barangay Semirara, Caluya, Province of Antique, was participated by around 70 individuals including barangay councilors, sitio and purok leaders, barangay health workers (BHWs), Disaster Operations Center (DOC) representatives, and volunteers from various sectors of the community.

From tracing, to cutting, to painting and designing, the UPD Geography team created, collaborated and co-produced knowledge with the community to create and mount a 3-dimensional map while actively discussing and learning the geographic features and backgrounds of the barangay from the participants, and explaining how the map can better serve the community, not just in mapping spaces of vulnerabilities but also as to how to add new information to the 'living map' that was produced.

The P3DM activity produced a 5ft x 6ft topographic map with information on infrastructures, land use, capacities, road networks, and several hazard areas including flood, storm surge and rain-induced landslide.

Inset maps were also produced to zoom in on densely populated areas of the barangay for household mapping with information on building material and vulnerabilities by assigning household and building ID numbers that are linked to a database.

Video edited by Jade Ocab

Videography by Jade Ocab & Kyla Bacolod

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