Earlier this year, I began developing the Pedestrian Space ‘Sustainable Urbanism & Planetary Health’ curriculum. At the heart of the curriculum are five thematic modules that shape the place-based, creative, and educational approach of the program.
Later this year, we will be piloting one activity module in the curriculum as well!
The pilot will be focused on the intersection of two of the five curriculum module themes: Mobility and Community. The pilot is also focused on the topic of Urban Heat, via the intersecting lens of the themes of Public Space, Built Environment, and Nature.
I’m the founder of the NGO Pedestrian Space and an urban researcher. Having worked in diverse educational settings, as well as with students of all ages and diverse ‘special needs’, I bring a passion for engaging youth and connecting that engagement to my passion for issues of sustainable urbanism. I will be piloting in Szczecin, Poland.
The ‘Sustainable Urbanism & Planetary Health’ curriculum aims to support active and place-based learning about sustainability in urban life and development at a local level and the connections to planetary health at the global level. The curriculum is intended to ‘come alive according to local context’, via place-based education approaches that are geographically and culturally appropriate. The pilots will offer us an opportunity to test out the curriculum as well as produc collaborative research on place-based education in a sustainable urbanism curriculum for primary school students.
Learn more here at the following link, and if you are interested in collaborating, please feel free to DM me or email info@pedestrianspace.org.
-Annika