Community Learning
Community learning includes a range of community place based and outreach learning opportunities, managed and delivered by local people to create scenescapes. Scenescapes are:
Community learning includes a range of community place based and outreach learning opportunities, managed and delivered by local people to create scenescapes. Scenescapes are:
... shared activities,
... shared activities,
...features that define a neighbourhood or place
...features that define a neighbourhood or place
...the presentations of locally generated aesthetics of a place.
...the presentations of locally generated aesthetics of a place.
Development of scenescapes was an aim, emanating from the UK sustainable development plan, to bring together people of different ages and backgrounds to tackle community issues and communicate ideas and achievements in citizen's environmental networks. The idea was the focus of a community eco-learning project in the 1990s entitled 'Blything and Nine Parishes' (BANP).
Development of scenescapes was an aim, emanating from the UK sustainable development plan, to bring together people of different ages and backgrounds to tackle community issues and communicate ideas and achievements in citizen's environmental networks. The idea was the focus of a community eco-learning project in the 1990s entitled 'Blything and Nine Parishes' (BANP).
BANP was part of an EC funded project called BIOPLEX based in the Suffolk village of Chediston, which in those days was a significant centre for local agricultural innovations to increase farm efficiency and minimise pollution. The project was mostly concerned with the economics of farm anaerobic digesters and the final report is now regarded as a classic milestone in this research area. However, a particular section of the EC’s protocol was to make a preliminary assessment of the future role of PC technology in the networking of innovation within and between village communities. Before that could happen there had to be a process of place-shaping in order for local people to develop a sense of identity and belonging to a scenescape.
BANP was part of an EC funded project called BIOPLEX based in the Suffolk village of Chediston, which in those days was a significant centre for local agricultural innovations to increase farm efficiency and minimise pollution. The project was mostly concerned with the economics of farm anaerobic digesters and the final report is now regarded as a classic milestone in this research area. However, a particular section of the EC’s protocol was to make a preliminary assessment of the future role of PC technology in the networking of innovation within and between village communities. Before that could happen there had to be a process of place-shaping in order for local people to develop a sense of identity and belonging to a scenescape.
The village of Chediston is situated in the ancient pre-county division of Blything Hundred. Some historians believe that it denotes 'the people of the Blyth', a tribal grouping of the Iceni, one of the first territorial gatherings of pre-Roman families that colonised the valleys of the River Blyth. This set the scene for BANP to encourage families living in Blything and adjacent parishes, to assemble a living history of the people in terms of past and present land management, the patterns of work and settlement and their hopes for the future. Above all, it was a bottom-up general model for people everywhere to attain a sense of place. It has long been available online as an education resource.
The village of Chediston is situated in the ancient pre-county division of Blything Hundred. Some historians believe that it denotes 'the people of the Blyth', a tribal grouping of the Iceni, one of the first territorial gatherings of pre-Roman families that colonised the valleys of the River Blyth. This set the scene for BANP to encourage families living in Blything and adjacent parishes, to assemble a living history of the people in terms of past and present land management, the patterns of work and settlement and their hopes for the future. Above all, it was a bottom-up general model for people everywhere to attain a sense of place. It has long been available online as an education resource.
The organisation of BANP and its ongoing outcomes can be accessed from the following links.
The organisation of BANP and its ongoing outcomes can be accessed from the following links.
This website positions BANP in the broader context of Suffolk villages as case-histories of community place shaping. It presents new notes on landscape elements, from maps, art and writings, exploring how people of all ages can shape more sustainable places together.
This website positions BANP in the broader context of Suffolk villages as case-histories of community place shaping. It presents new notes on landscape elements, from maps, art and writings, exploring how people of all ages can shape more sustainable places together.