School of Education

LSRI: Learning-through-touring

Location
Exchange Building, Jubliee Campus
Date(s)
Tuesday 8th December 2009 (16:00-17:00)
Contact

Eleanor Palfreman@nottingham.ac.uk or tel: 0115 8467930 to express your interest in attending.
www.lsri.nottingham.ac.uk/

 

Description

Juliet Sprake
Goldsmiths College, University of London

How can touring urban buildings and their environs reinvigorate learning activities? Exploring this question is the focus for this seminar. Concepts and processes for learning through touring are presented in two forms:

1. As analytic investigations from different disciplines such as architecture, art, education, geography and urbanism in which notions of site-specificity and subjectivity are argued to be relevant in rethinking the relationship between learning and touring

2. As a series of site-specific design projects in which these ideas are explored in practice - Mudlarking in Deptford, Transitional Spaces at the V&A and Cracking Maps at the British Library

Discussion around a new design methodology – learning-through-touring – concludes the seminar. This methodology has relevance for those concerned with developing participatory practice in urban design and architecture, with education centres committed to delivering learning activities in and about the built environment, with educators who develop creative ways of engaging with the topography of the urban landscape, and with those researching mobile learning.

This event will be live streamed via http://www.lsri.nottingham.ac.uk/live/

This seminar will take place in Room 35a, Flexible Learning Room, LSRI, The Exchange, Jubilee Campus 

School of Education

University of Nottingham
Jubilee Campus
Wollaton Road
Nottingham, NG8 1BB

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