For the 2009/10 academic year there are 12 partnerships in the Engaging Places network, developing best practice examples of using buildings and places to teach a range of curriculum subjects. And there’s a common theme running through many of the projects – understanding your local area, how it has developed, how the people have shaped their place and how the place has shaped them.
Network groups working together © A&M Photography Ltd
Look out for project updates over the next six months from the start of 2010, as the projects progress.
Buildings and patterns
Camden Borough Council and the British Museum are working with Jack Taylor School, a special educational needs primary school - read about their project.
People and places: the changing faces of the Old Royal Naval College
The Greenwich Foundation is working with Wingfield Primary School - read about their project.
Erith marshes
Bexley Borough Council and Urban Words are working with Trinity School, a secondary comprehensive - read about their project.
Mapping your Greenwich
The Maritime Greenwich World Heritage Site is working with Kidbrooke High School, a specialist arts college - read about their project.
White Tower impressions: design for conservation
Historic Royal Palaces is working with Graveney School, a specialist ICT college in Tooting - read about their project
Gravesend Riviera
South East Planning Aid is working with Riverview Junior School and Thamesview Vocational Centre - read about their project.
SPUD youth group
Solent Centre for Architecture and Design is working with an Eastleigh consortium of schools bringing together their construction and built environment diploma students.
Bristol: space and design
The Architecture Centre, Bristol is working with Oak Hill, a pupil referral unit - read about their project.
Divine inspiration
The Diocese of Coventry is working with St Bartholomew’s Church of England Primary School - read about their project.
Stories in stone
Wolverhampton Art Gallery is working separately with Ercall Wood Technology College and Madeley Academy - find out more about their project.
Look up, look back, look forwards
Shropshire Archives is working with Wrekin View Primary School - read about their project.
Background to the Engaging Places network
The Engaging Places programme is run by CABE (Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment) and English Heritage. It supports teaching and learning through buildings and places.
Engaging Places realises that young people identify deeply with where they go to school and live but they are not always able to adequately communicate their sense of place to others. The physical face of many neighbourhoods is changing fast and schools are being transformed at an incredible pace, despite the recession. These dramatic changes will either involve or exclude a whole generation of young people.
This is why we have developed the Engaging Places network. The network is made up of schools and learning providers across England working together on projects which seek to equip students with the tools to articulate and critically analyse the places where they live and learn.
Want to know more?
Read about the first 2009/10 Engaging Places network workshop.
Read about the 2008/09 Engaging Places network process.
Watch the Engaging Places network videos.
