February 2009

Engaging Places goes live

Engaging Places, the most comprehensive guide ever created for teaching about buildings and places, is now live. “It captures everything I think, write, teach and dream about” said one professor of architecture.

Launch competition winners

The winners of our special EP launch competition have been announced. They’ll receive a membership to English Heritage, the Geographical Association, a class visit to Hampton Court Palace or tickets to a Le Corbusier exhibition. Have you won?

Broadening horizons

Engaging Places helps students and teachers to see things differently. Encouraging young people to look at their local streets and town with fresh eyes brings real benefits.

Englishman’s home is his Castleford

Sixteen-year-old Stuart Surr has been involved in Channel 4’s Big Town Plan regeneration project in Castleford for six years and counting. It’s been life changing.

Involving young people in playground design

Children are often passive users in the development of public spaces. With the right support and opportunities, they can help to create inspirational and thriving spaces.

Learning journey: Appledore Community Primary School

Year 6 students took pride and confidence in their Devon school grounds project - planning, designing and building a new geodesic dome.

New on Engaging Places

Teaching & Learning

• Conservation at the Tower of London
• Learning journey: Joseph Rowntree School, York
• Connecting Stonehenge with the Newark Earthworks
• Using the built environment to achieve Every Child Matters outcomes
• Construction and the built environment diploma

Visits

• Learning opportunities at your local architecture centre
• Teacher Q&A: Bill Dewberry, Chingford Foundation School

Resources

• Learning Space by Urban Design London
• Looking at Norwich buildings by Dragon Hall
• Sculpture Garden education pack by Burghley House, Stamford