Turning Space into Place
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This document discusses place and space through quotes and examples. It explores how humans give meaning to space and turn it into place. It also discusses challenges for educators as children spend more time indoors on screens rather than exploring outdoor places. The document provides ideas to help students reconnect with places, such as fake planning notices, landscape representations in boxes, and soundscape recordings. Links are included for related projects on investigating places through fieldwork, performances, and history.
Turning Space into Place
- 1. “Place is security, space is freedom” Yi-Fu Tuan
- 2. turning space into place
- 3. A place comes into existence when humans give meaning to a part of the larger, undifferentiated space. (Tuan)
- 4. Challenge for educators? ming e beco gam Ch ildren video Children ed to orlds, 'no longe a ddict tasy w enjoy pla r fan ers warn ying teach outdoors ' P rin ce o pupils ne f Wales: arents b an their ed to go P outside t p la y child ren from o develo utside c h ara c te p p laying o r
- 5. Some ideas to help students to (re)connect with place
- 6. Fake planning notices… What would you miss from your local place if it was to disappear? “Our proposal is to turn The Chocolate Box into a KFC. The reason for this is because Wellington does not have a fast food takeaway and we have a lot of cafes.” If you disagree with this please tell us on our website
- 7. “We are proposing to change NatWest, Fore Street, into ‘Wellington reptile house’. The reptile house will be funded by Amphibian Inc; and NatWest plan to be moving to Swansea. Sorry for any inconvenience.”
- 8. Think inside the box…
- 9. Landscape in a box Venice by Melissa…
- 10. Landscape in a box Katie’s box.. representing Ha Long Bay, Vietnam
- 11. Katie describes her box… I have always lived in Halong Bay. Here, on our little Bar-hang we are born, we fish, we die. We spend our lives floating about in the bay, never stepping on land. Life here is peaceful, no bills, no loud streets or tires screeching. We live here. In the grasp of nature. By Katie Drohan
- 12. The “real” HaLong Bay…
- 13. What do places sound like?
- 15. Find evidence of topocide Go somewhere you like that is in danger of disappearing or changing forever. What is threatening to kill this place? Take photographic evidence and submit it to your local authorities. Topocide is the 'killing of a place' and can result in buildings, landscapes and meaningful places being lost forever. http:/www.missionexplore.net/mission/Find-evidence-of-topocide
- 17. Be on TV…Put on a performance for a CCTV controller. You could improvise a short play, show off a dance routine or hold a full blown talent show. Bring the ghost pier back to life… Spot the ghostly remains of Westward Ho!’s Pier at low tide. Bring the pier back to life in your mind and draw what you think it may have once looked like. Write a strange(r) play… Go to a charity shop and buy some random clothes that used to belong to other people. Draft and perform a short play about the strangers who used to wear the clothes. RIP… Find the oldest person buried in your local graveyard. Leave a flower on their grave.
- 18. The TV studio at the end of the world Underground, somewhere near Bristol… Fake planning notices project: http://wellingtonplans.wordpress.com/ Landscape in a box: http://www.digitalgeography.co.uk/archives/2012/02/landscape-in-a-box-vol-1/ Soundscapes in a box: http://www.digitalgeography.co.uk/archives/2012/03/soundscapes-in-a-box/ Mission Explore: http://www.digitalgeography.co.uk/archives/2012/03/soundscapes-in-a-box/ Photos: all © Noel Jenkins // www.edgecity.co.uk
Editor's Notes
- #2: Hello everyone…
- #3: Pretentiousness alert!
- #4: Substitute “ learning ” and “ human knowledge ” for place and space
- #5: A familiar cry?
- #6: 3 classroom ideas and a website to give meaning to space
- #7: Fake Planning project to get students to think about their local area. Subvertising in the local community. What would you miss most if it disappeared?
- #8: The most controversial caused several complaints.
- #9: An idea from geographer Alan Parkinson. Research a place, identify the key components and recreate inside a box
- #10: Resulted in extraordinary creativity across the ability range
- #11: Katie has never been to Vietnam
- #12: But she completed this short piece of writing about her place
- #13: that seemed to recreate the real HaLong Bay perfectly – not just the landscape but empathy with people
- #14: Working with an ICT teacher Lee Turnbull, the class used Soundation to create “ soundscapes ” for their boxes. Links to this work and fake plans on digitalgeography.co.uk
- #15: No point in doing fieldwork if you know what the outcome will be in advance. Here ’ s a Year 8 student in the boiler room of an old textile mill. This place may or may not become a museum. The buildings were “ space ” until the students visited, carried out fieldwork and imagined what sort of place should be created from the derelict buildings.
- #16: Investigating topocide is one of many “ missions ” on Mission Explore
- #17: Teachers can create mission explore groups for their class. Can join with other schools and local organizations to create mini adventures and investigations.
- #18: A flavour of Mission Explore… Great for Geography but links to Art, English, Maths, Drama, ICT
- #19: Curiosity about place is something we should never grow out of. The TV studio at the end of the world, underground somewhere near Bristol.