A PATTERN OF PLACES 2009/10
During 2009/10 Urban Vision North Staffordshire worked with Haywood Engineering College, Longton High School, Blurton High School, Clough Hall Technology college and Biddulph High School on the ‘A Pattern of Places’ project.
Students and staff were involved in the exploration of the built environment in North Staffordshire at both the macro scale of town planning and the micro scale of detail, decoration and materials.
The emphasis was on young people experiencing for themselves ‘the sense of place’ that comes from people engaging with their built environment over time. How such ‘environmental character’ is a response to the urban spaces that evolve or are designed to define patterns of use and the buildings that are constructed, altered and extended to meet the needs of urban living.
Through such experiences the young people became involved creatively in ‘the story’ of the places they explored because they entered them in their imagination in a similar way to that in which we all identify with the narrative of a book or the words and images of a play or film.
This approach is based on educational research that indicates how all aspects of such understanding and knowing come together when the process of learning is contextualised and the outcome is a creative response.
All the projects were collaborative and cross curricular and the learning outcomes take the form of words, images and structures of varying scale and complexity.
Each A Pattern of Places project concludes with an exhibition of the creative work produced.
The exhibition of students work from Biddulph High School, Blurton High School, and Clough Hall Technology College will take place in The Front Room Gallery here at Urban Vision from June 4th until July 2nd 2010. Please telephone to check opening times as these will vary on a weekly basis.
Please contact Fiona Waddle on 01782 575321 to find out how your school could take part in 'A Pattern of Places'
