Site As A Classroom: Observation, Monitoring & Identifying Patterns

We’re warmly inviting you to join us for our Autumn series of Site as a Classroom at CIVIC SQUARE. On Tuesday afternoons we gather with friends and neighbours to rehearse and practice skills for the care and maintenance of of our homes, streets and neighbourhoods through collective stewardship of this site that will become the Neighbourhood Public Square.
In this week's session we will be practicing the art and science of observation, identifying and monitoring patterns in our neighbourhoods.
Drop by the Floating Front Room for a coffee or hot drink of your choice and join us in the polytunnel for this week's session.

We'll delve into the shared ways we can start to document and keeping records on our environment in low-tech ways as part of developing a neighbourhood science practice. We’ll also explore some ways in which these skills can be practiced in neighbourhoods.

Leaning into what we can use around us to build a picture, learn to identify patterns, understanding what those teach us and establishing ways we share out those learnings with others is a skill that will enable us to create more coherence around our changing climactic, ecological and social contexts.

Autumn Season
As we move into the Autumn months, we will be continuing to look after our plants and soil harvesting crops whilst learning and practicing how we observe, identify and monitor patterns in our neighbourhood and environments as well as document our learnings as an act of archiving, democratising the knowledge, and collaboratively making a manual/guide on those topics.
On occasion we may be joined by guest practitioners with lots of expertise and experience, and where there are no guest practitioners, you can find a space to share your own skills with friends, neighbours and learn from each other, as well as put into action some of the wisdom practitioners may have shared.

Some of the wonderful guest practitioners we have been joined by so far include

• Ernie, from Warm Earth, Winson Green, Birmingham - shared with us some composting and planting skills
  
• Dieter, from Center for Alternative Technology, Machynlleth - shared with us some planter making techniques & recipe for natural protective oils for wood
  
• Veronica, from Center for Alternative Tehcnology, Machynlleth - shared with us some planting and growing techniques and
  
• Andy, from Urban Herbs who shared a his knowlwedge of polytunnels and how to group herbs together for optimum growing conditions.

• You are seeking spaces where you can connect with your neighbours, learn new things and apply them practically in your community.
  
• You are open, curious to find your spark some free time during the day
  
• You are passionatley interested in the next phases of Neighbourhood Public Square and can see yourself being a part it in the near future or the longer term.

• Please remember that we are hosting from a site with very limited infrastructure.
• No open toe footwear can be permitted on site.
• Although we are working towards this, we can't currently promise access to the use of toilets and so we currently keep sessions flexible for drop in and short in time length.
• No children under the age of 8 are permitted to be on the site during these sessions.
• Under 16s should be accompanied by a parent or guardian
• Stay hydrated when in the polytunnel, bring a water bottle if you have one, or request some drinking water from the Floating Front Room.
  

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