Playgrounds and Treescapes


 We went to Seymour Park on Monday. We walked from Brooks, me, Abi and Jennifer. 

We wanted tree wisdom but instead we found our favourite trees. My favourite was Manchester Plane.

When we got to the school Caitlin and Khawla were there. This is their version of your Adventure Playground, the community garden. It looks over the patch of land that will become the first treescape planted by the project. Caitlin and Khawla's kids told me what they wanted to see there.

Dave came and talked about community art. He is running workshops in year 3. It feels both very familiar and different at the same time, I am not sure why. 

Perhaps play is also important also the sites and spaces generating the thinking but climate change gives it a different feel. COP26 is going to be a disaster and we need to keep working on this project. Perhaps weshould just call it playing.

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  1. spodsheffSeptember 24, 2021 at 7:02 AM

    I don't know really I feel a bit at sea with everything as if I don't really know what to think. My gut tells me that every society religion and group in history has an end of the world myth and it is somehow linked to our own mortality - we can't as humans actually stand the idea that the world will go on for millions of years after we have gone. If I say tis it sounds a bit like i am in slight self denial about global warming, I am not yet I cannot help but think that we as humans have a different view of what a resilient planet may look like in 10 000 years we may not be able to see it through anything we could call human eyes yet I am confident it will be spectacular.

    The point then of what is essentially a pedagogic project is to generate a place to think and learn about the importance of our stay in the world in the context of a bigger picture drawing on all the resources that are to hand. I think this is the point and the practice of most of our projects so this will just fall in line eventually.

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