Week 5: Speaker Series #2

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Buckholt-Payne, Anya. “The Speaker Series: Our City Tomorrow.” Creating Places for People, Wellington City Council, 28 Mar. 2019, City Gallery Wellington. Speaker Series.

I went to a talk by the Wellington City Council: The Speaker Series: Our City Tomorrow, Creating places for people. From this I got some enlightening insights from Anya Buckholt-Payne, where she talked about making a better city for youth. She talked about the lack of engagement within school cultures, and how students weren't being inspired- and therefore weren't getting involved- in their education. They weren't investing in themselves because the majority of her peer group didn't feel represented within the world, which is reflecting in class/ learning engagement. She talked about student voice, and feeling "powerless and isolated". She stated that the conventional education environment needs to be challenged. Her observations cross over a lot into my project, and I've gotten in contact with Anya in the hopes of establishing deeper conversations.

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