Engaging Places has moved to the leading independent built environment organisation Open-City who have published the following statement:
Engaging Places is a national initiative to promote the value of learning about buildings and places – both old and new – by predominantly providing a ‘one-stop-shop’ web portal. Engaging Places promotes teaching and learning about the contemporary and historic built environment. Since late 2011, it has been integrated into the leading independent built environment organization Open-City, one of London’s key providers of innovative and inspiring programmes and resources using architecture as a learning tool.
Engaging Places supports and provides a portal to a rich seam of teaching resources and materials, topical features, information about places to visit, and lesson plans for teachers and education providers, as well as championing built environment education across the UK.
The Engaging Places initiative was originally based at CABE – the former Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment – in a partnership that involved English Heritage and Culture24. Following the Spending Review and the subsequent winding up of CABE in its present form, DCMS sought a new partner to take over Engaging Places.
The built environment is rich with potential for inspiring young people’s learning journeys, and Engaging Places complements and enhances Open-City’s expertise through providing curriculum-focused teaching resources to support, develop and extend built environment education.
Victoria Thornton, Director of Open City, comments “With the forthcoming publication of Henley Review final recommendations, Engaging Places has the potential to have a pivotal role in the future of built environment education in England, as well as enabling us to extend our portfolio of London-based educational programmes and resources”.
John Penrose MP, Minister for Tourism and Heritage, “I’m really pleased that Engaging Places has transferred to Open City. Our architecture - and buildings old and new - shape our everyday life, and are important parts of any cultural education. So I am very glad DCMS was able to support the transfer with some funding. The Engaging Places programme and Open City have lots of common ground and I look forward to seeing Engaging Places continuing to grow and becoming self-financing.”
Engaging Places is a national initiative to promote the value of learning about buildings and places – both old and new – by predominantly providing a ‘one-stop-shop’ web portal. Engaging Places promotes teaching and learning about the contemporary and historic built environment. Since late 2011, it has been integrated into the leading independent built environment organization Open-City, one of London’s key providers of innovative and inspiring programmes and resources using architecture as a learning tool.
30 St Mary Axe in the City of London Copyright Steve Punter, Flickr.com
Engaging Places supports and provides a portal to a rich seam of teaching resources and materials, topical features, information about places to visit, and lesson plans for teachers and education providers, as well as championing built environment education across the UK.
The Engaging Places initiative was originally based at CABE – the former Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment – in a partnership that involved English Heritage and Culture24. Following the Spending Review and the subsequent winding up of CABE in its present form, DCMS sought a new partner to take over Engaging Places.
The built environment is rich with potential for inspiring young people’s learning journeys, and Engaging Places complements and enhances Open-City’s expertise through providing curriculum-focused teaching resources to support, develop and extend built environment education.
Victoria Thornton, Director of Open City, comments “With the forthcoming publication of Henley Review final recommendations, Engaging Places has the potential to have a pivotal role in the future of built environment education in England, as well as enabling us to extend our portfolio of London-based educational programmes and resources”.
John Penrose MP, Minister for Tourism and Heritage, “I’m really pleased that Engaging Places has transferred to Open City. Our architecture - and buildings old and new - shape our everyday life, and are important parts of any cultural education. So I am very glad DCMS was able to support the transfer with some funding. The Engaging Places programme and Open City have lots of common ground and I look forward to seeing Engaging Places continuing to grow and becoming self-financing.”
