News and Events
- Home, School and the Spaces In Between - Child Friendly Cities Symposium: 23rd - 30th October 2008 - Wollongong, Wodonga, Melbourne.
Children need access to a variety of quality public urban and educational spaces that encourage exploration of the self and the environment. However, policies often define children's space narrowly, encourage strong adult surveillance and intervention, construct children as vulnerable, and lead to unimaginative play spaces in the urban environment and within school grounds. Rather than emphasising over-protection, this programme focuses on the positive influence of outdoor informal and formal learning on children's healthy development. It explores the impact of architecture, design and planning on children's experiential learning using approaches from ecological and environmental psychology.
- Workshop Symposium led by Professor John Whitelegg on Low Carbon Urban Transport - November 10th - 13th 2008, University of Melbourne University House.