The first thing I should do is add in something that i was so impressed by.
We had a lecture yesterday by an environmental psychologist from the University of Helsinki. She should how children use their environment and how they can be limited by it and how this effects them developmentally. It would take far too long to go into huge details but basics were lets kids play and take risks.
She also should us an IT programme which pupils log into and they give their opinions on their school enviroments. Its far more sophisticated than simply Typing what you think. It asks them to show on a plan where they feel things. Happiness, fear, uneasiness etc. The information is collected and used to influance future school designs.
She then showed a "Soft GIS" system which she is developing. This adds a layer to the normal Geographical Information Systems (GIS) which measures the environment in terms of personal experience. Which areas do people feel safe in? Which place make them nervous? It is planned to use this to influance the city planning...... Any comments?

The purpose of this week was too produce the basic concept for an exhibition to encourage pupils to connect to the built environment.
So not much then

We started today by taking the brain storming we did a few days ago and developing them.
The Exhibition should be active and experiential but what will do that?
After spilting into groups based on the senses we came up with particular ideas for exhibits/experiences.
These were wide ranging from the simple (like me) to the complex but the ideas were all truly interesting.
We are now creating prototypes, models and presentations to show others what we mean. We are hoping that this will form the basis for a future exhibition. At least part of the exhibition will be web based (and that wasn't my suggestion) and possibly based they could happen at the same time in different centres and allow international collaboration

I had better get back to work though maybe more later

Ian