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UNIVERSITY OF THE CHILD · A VISION TAKING SHAPE

Learning from the living world.

Envision a landscape that invites attention: soil to tend, changing seasons to notice and living systems to understand through purposeful work.

Proposed gardens & living landscapes · In development · No facilities, degrees or bookings are being offered.

Concept illustration: Golden mountain landscape and vegetation
Concept · Imagining a living landscape for learning.
Concept illustration: Two adults walking beside a planted building
Concept · Two adults walking beside a planted building.

01 · THE POSSIBILITY

Cultivation and care

Food gardens could offer experiences of patience, care and the connection between human needs and the land.

02 · THE POSSIBILITY

Biodiversity and belonging

The proposed landscape would respond to its local ecology, creating opportunities to notice relationships between plants, animals and people.

03 · THE POSSIBILITY

A place to pause

Shade, paths and quiet places are part of the vision for a campus where reflection belongs alongside study.

AN ENVISIONED EXPERIENCE

Imagine a day here.

Imagine tending a small garden, sharing what it has taught you and considering how a similar experience might take root in a child’s environment.

FROM VISION TO REALITY

An invitation to thoughtful collaborators.

This is a long-term institutional ambition. Development depends on partnerships, resources, appropriate permissions and careful planning.

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AN INVITATION

Help shape this part of the vision.