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Time: 15:45 - 16:45
Date: 23 June 2022
Creating Sustainable Learning Communities: Supporting Active Travel Choices Speaker: Dr Dafydd Trystan, Chair, Active Travel Board Wales The presentation will outline the overall Welsh Government strategy for supporting Active Travel to Schools and other Education Settings, and draw on best practice examples of successful new build projects that have incorporated active travel as key features… Read more »
Education Buildings WalesCreating Sustainable Learning Communities: Supporting Active Travel Choices
Speaker: Dr Dafydd Trystan, Chair, Active Travel Board Wales
The presentation will outline the overall Welsh Government strategy for supporting Active Travel to Schools and other Education Settings, and draw on best practice examples of successful new build projects that have incorporated active travel as key features from the outset. It will set out a number of key elements of success to building zero carbon sustainable communities for learning including the transport infrastructure.
Black Mountains College
Black Mountains College is a new further and higher education college founded as a direct response to the ecological and climate crisis. Led by activist and writer Ben Rawlence, the school’s unique programme will connect the environment, society and the individual, to produce rounded, resilient leaders with a wide set of capabilities which can address a growing skills gap in Wales and the UK.
Featherstone Young are the architects designing the new campus in the Brecon Beacons National Park, crafting it from an existing farmstead, through both reuse of existing buildings and carefully sited new buildings. Adopting the most effective sustainable principles it will promote active travel with cycling and walking as the primary mode of transport to and from the campus.
Speakers:
Sarah Featherstone, Director, Featherstone Young
Ben Rawlence, Black Mountains College
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