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ICA Competition
| The Barbara Petchenik Award was created by the International
Cartographic Association (ICA) in 1993 as a memorial for Barbara Petchenik,
a past Vice President of the ICA and cartographer who had a lifelong interest
in maps for children. The aim of the award is to promote children's
creative representation of the world. The awards are given every
two years during an ICA Conference or an ICA General Assembly. As
of 2003, there have been five competitions: 1993, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2001 and 2003. The next competition will be held in 2005 in A Coruņa, Spain. For more information link to the Competition page.
Twenty of the maps displayed in 1993 at the Koln Conference were included on a CD-ROM called "My City" produced for the United Nations and exhibited at the World Summit on Social Development, Copenhagen, March 1995 and at the Women's Summit, Beijing, September 1995. Upon the initiative of UNICEF and the ICA, 18 maps from the 1993 and 1995 contests have been used in an Education for Development resource poster, "Children Draw the World." The Organizing Committee for the 2003 Conference in Durban produced a desk calendar displaying 12 maps from the 2001 competition. Competition entries are archived at the Maps, Data and Government Information
Centre, Carleton University Library, Ottawa, Canada.
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