Network

The Engaging Places Network is a group of teachers and cultural and educational organisations who are working together to enhance built environment education.

Unforgettable Lessons final report: Bristol Space and Design

Be inspired by a cross-curricular project which involved students creating designs for a new development in Bristol that would meet the community's needs.

Unlocking the past through our streets and buildings: resources

How much has our local urban landscape changed? And what can we learn about the history of our neighbourhood through these changes?

Exploring beauty in practice

Read about how a teacher in Greenwich introduced her pupils to thinking about how they could make their school more beautiful.

Tales from the Palace

Inspired by stories about Kensington Palace and its inhabitants, year 5 students wrote, performed and directed short films that breathed new life into the past.

House on top of tall, narrow plinth

Unforgettable lessons: overview of final reports

Read this introduction to Unforgettable Lessons before finding out more about these exciting projects, each one exploring the ways that buildings and places can become a great teaching resource…

Unforgettable Lessons final report: White Tower impressions

Read about a stimulating design project which enabled students to create textiles that responded to conservation work at the Tower of London.

Unforgettable Lessons final report: Stories in Stone, Madeley Academy

Be inspired by a construction project which gave the students an insight into their local area and enabled them to produce creative work to share this knowledge.

Unforgettable Lessons final report: Stories in stone, Ercall Wood Technology College

This project opened the students' eyes to the history of their neighbourhood written out in the architecture of local buildings - find out more…

Unforgettable Lessons final report: SPUD youth group

Be inspired by an extended schools project which gave students the skills to redesign parts of their home cities.

Unforgettable Lessons final report: People and Places

Read about this cross-curricular project which involved pupils discovering what makes a beautiful place so they could improve the places where they lived and learnt…

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