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Concrete, skills and concepts
Room N405
Workshop 6
Angus Willson
Places People Want
Robert Thompson cartoon removed for copyright reasons
Man faced with community jigsaw of thousands of pieces:
“Uggh, without a big picture to follow it’s impossible”
Living Geography: places people want
Concrete, skills and concepts
Eight components of sustainable communitiesa) points of viewb) evidence and meaning from photographs
Hand-out of ‘References and links’
Two publications:Making Places: creating sustainable
communities ASC about… place making
Screen grab removed for copyright reasons.
Five seconds into the Sony Bravia advert shows the tower block and row of town houses prior to explosions of brightly-coloured paint.
Further details and download from www.bravia-advert.com
What? Where? What next?
Alternative futures
If one of the main purposes of education is to prepare young people for the future then where in education are they given the opportunity to explore that future?
Preferable
CurrentTrends
Probable
‘Living Geography’ captures geography which is:
• Current and future oriented• Local but set in wider (global) contexts• Investigates change processes • Evaluates change
Where will I live? – exploring the key concept of place
The bigger concepts
www.geography.org.uk/projects/bsc
Eight components of sustainable communities
Skills
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Living Geography: places people want
Concrete, skills and concepts
www.geography.org.uk/projects/bsc
Angus Willson
