2nd - 5th September 2009
Eden Project, Cornwall

Who's involved

Organisations and individuals confirmed for the events include:

Sensory Trust promotes inclusive environmental design and builds richer connections between people and place.

Eden Project is a living demonstration of regeneration that connects people with their environments locally and globally.
www.edenproject.com

Carnegie Trust UK promotes ways in which rural communities across the UK and Ireland can be empowered to influence change.
Carnegie Trust UK web site

Shan Ashton, Bangor University, Wales, works with communities wanting to change by facilitating conversations in the work-place/pub/street corner - 'an emergent process but built out of the place and its vibrancy!'

Jen Bartlett has spent the last 10 years working for Brisbane City Council - the largest local government in the southern hemisphere. Jen has been influential in developing innovative community engagement and ownership of the long term vision for the city.

Kate Braithwaite is the Director of the Carnegie Rural Community Development Programme, leading on Commission and the Rural Action Research Programme. Kate was previously Chief Executive of Voluntary Action Cumbria and was responsible for the delivery of innovative rural development programmes including Rural Women’s Network, Enterprising Communities (social enterprise support), hosting a LEADER+ programme and work with hill farming communities. She has also been awarded a MBE in Millennium Honours for services to rural communities.

Will Coleman uses place-based learning to deliver the curriculum with ‘diversity and distinctiveness’ here in Kernow; he has stories with significant resonance for other parts of the UK
www.willcoleman.co.uk

John Fox and Sue Gill founded Welfare State International and now run Dead Good Guides, picking up where WSI left off. John and Sue have a wealth of inspirational examples of gathering, installation and narrative that connect people, landscape and cultural heritage.
www.deadgoodguides.com
www.welfare-state.org

Sveva Gallmann set up the Four Generations Project in Kenya, an inspirational programme that strengthens relationships between young and old and uses narrative to help people understand and respond to change over time. This powerful intergenerational initiative is now reaching across the world. Sveva also convenes an international arts and environment festival that attracts leading cultural groups from across the world.
www.gallmannkenya.org/fourgenerations.html

Sam Harrison, Open Ground, based in Argyll, Scotland, delivers projects which bring out the interdependence of culture and nature in specific places. www.openground.eu

Angie Hart is the Academic Director of the award winning Community University Partnership Programme at the University of Brighton. As part of that role, she is the Brighton lead for the HEFCE-funded South East Coastal Communities Programme. Professor Hart has published widely on health and social care services to disadvantaged children, their families and their supporters, especially in relation to the concept of resilience. Her current work includes developing a series of communities of practice in collaboration with a local charity. This project involves working with groups of parents and practitioners to implement and develop Resilient Therapy.
www.cupp.org.uk

Susan Humphries is the founding head teacher of Coombes School, the most inspirational example of environmental education in the UK.

David Kamp, Dirtworks PC, USA, is a landscape architect and has researched ergonomics, medical ethics and the effectiveness of nature and gardens to influence health care environments in order to develop a series of gardens that successfully serve people with disabilities.
www.dirtworks.us

Tony Kendle, Foundation Director, Eden Project. As Foundation Director his responsibilities include strategic development of the meaning of the project, overseeing the education programme (schools and public), science outreach and horticulture.
www.edenproject.com

Dwynwen Lloyd Evans, Theatr Felin-fach, Wales; Gofod ar gyfer creu cyffro ac uchelgais, gofod lle mae pobl yn gallu croesi ffiniau iaith a chefndir diwylliannol, gofod sy’n dathlu diwylliant ac iaith Ceredigion. A space for creating excitement and ambition, a space where people can cross boundaries of language and cultural background, a space which celebrates the culture and language of Ceredigion” www.theatrfelinfach.com

Jack Shelton, PACERS, Alabama, USA, provides young people with ways to study, celebrate and serve their communities through place-based education
www.pacersinc.org

Saffron Woodcraft, Young Foundation, manages Neighbourhood Futures, a new programme of work with local authorities to explore the impacts of the economic downturn on neighbourhood working and community empowerment, and is leading a project exploring solutions to entrenched deprivation in very small estates.
www.youngfoundation.org

John Zeisel, Hearthstone, USA. Through pioneering design of healthcare facilities his work illustrates how places can be designed with meaning at the heart.
www.thehearth.org/ziesel.html

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