At Pedestrian Space, we are designing a city-immersed and community-engaged ‘Sustainable Urbanism and Planetary Health’ curriculum with a transdisciplinary, engaged, and active approach that focuses on issues of urbanism, sustainability, and planetary health.
The curriculum is intended to supplement school learning with community partnerships and engagement, via diverse lenses of learning and actions for sustainable urbanism.
“We believe a truly holistic and multigenerational approach to shaping awareness about sustainable urbanism and planetary health also centers on engaging youth in diverse and dynamic ways.“
The curriculum ‘comes alive’ according to local contexts and unique community – student -educator partnerships.
The curriculum is developed with the international mindset and curiosity that is at the heart of Pedestrian Space, yet with a focus on the power of the local for meaningful action, engagement, and learning.
•Active
•Community-engaged
•Project-based
•Transdisciplinary
The Sustainable Urbanism and Planetary Health curriculum is intended to be activated via community partnerships and engagement, via diverse modular lenses for sustainable urbanism. The thematic modules are developed in age-appropriate contexts and will also consider the engagement of children for whom ‘traditional’ school environments are very difficult to adjust to. Inclusive education entails being thoughtful about how children who are not well accommodated in ‘mainstream’ environments can be better included to not only ‘survive’ in educational settings but to thrive.
“The curriculum comes alive according to the local context & community partnerships.”
The curriculum is intended to ‘come alive according to local context’, via place-based education approaches that are geographically and culturally appropriate. Arts and media will be a vital part of the curriculum as well, as Pedestrian Space promotes and supports the discourse and awareness-shaping on diverse issues of urbanism through various artistic means.
Many practitioners and researchers across disciplines have long recognized urban environments as key sites for studying, experimenting, and learning. We believe a truly holistic and multigenerational approach to shaping awareness about sustainable urbanism and planetary health also centers on engaging youth in diverse and dynamic ways.
I’m excited to be bringing something that has been a dream and plan of mine for a while now to life. As an urban and resilience researcher, my goal is to shape a community-engaged curriculum that can inspire and engage youth and educators to learn about and participate in these topics in their local context.
“Inclusive education entails being thoughtful about how children who are not well accommodated in ‘mainstream’ environments can be better included to not only ‘survive’ in educational settings but to thrive.“
Arts and media will be a vital part of the curriculum as well, as Pedestrian Space promotes and supports the discourse and awareness-shaping on diverse issues of urbanism through various artistic means.
We are also looking forward to the development and support of a global network of individuals and groups interested in integrating the curriculum into their programs.
I am actively seeking partnerships to bring the curriculum alive in the coming years. If you are an educator, school or community program leader or facilitator, or a municipal official interested in collaborating, please contact info@pedestrianspace.org
~Annika, Founder at Pedestrian Space
