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.
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
This is a primary and secondary (K-12) curriculum, designed in age-appropriate modules. Additionally, the curriculum will have an aspect of engagement that is specifically for engaging 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.
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.
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.
The curriculum comes alive according to the local context & community partnerships.
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.
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
