The Creative Pathway will demonstrate visually and thus by an association between physical pathways and learning pathways that: the pathways of life can be filled with learning. An ordinary street can become an extraordinary place for learning which demonstrates that learning is not confined to the barracks of institutions, but that it should pervade everyday life and help us move between institutions and live a life of learning.
Initiated several years ago, initially developed by the Burnie City Council and the University. Proximity of educational institutions led us to consider how we could take advantage of this unique situation. We wanted to effect a change which would identify the street as a rich educational environment, to testify to the high value we wanted the community to place on education throughout life.
We engaged an outside consultant to establish a Concept Plan and to work with the community and the stakeholders in a consultative planning process. When the proposal was finalised we could be sure we had given people the opportunity to contribute.
This learning pathway is intended to demonstrate to the community that there are real pathways which they can choose, as they move through a lifetime of learning. This project aims to make a real life pathway between several levels of education, and to connect the institutional learning with the City, the place where people live and work. So the metaphor of the pathway becomes a reality and people truly walk along this pathway of learning.
We will install bus shelters, walls, seating, meandering pathways, with resting spots. All these will be integrated into a visually pleasing single identity of a learning precinct. We will ask people to make their own pathways of learning through life. The Educational precinct will demonstrate tangibly that the institutions are linked. The community will navigate their way between the institutions, and this will be made easier, because the institutions are working together with a single vision for what they can contribute to their local community.
What we hope is that our citizens will see that there is no division between the stages of learning, as offered by the various educational institutions. Rather, learning is the focus and the differences are related to the operational models of the institutions. This should never get in the way of the individual's pathway of learning through life. May this Creative Pathway clearly demonstrate the value of lifelong learning and the ease with which the transition between the stages of learning should occur.
The Creative Pathways Steering Committee has strengthened its relationships and partners now include:
- University of Tasmania,
- TAFE,
- Burnie City Council,
- Burnie Primary School,
- Hellyer College
- One Care, Umina Park.
Projects initiated through Creative Pathways:
- University and TAFE Sculptures
- University and Hellyer College Bus Shelters designed by Hellyer College and UTAS architecture students.
- Umina Park Bench Seating
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