dinsdag 21 september 2010

Everything New


Leiden, September 20th 2010

This morning, at 8.45 am, the students met at Socrates to begin a busy day. At first the teacher said what they had to do and then they were divided into four groups. From 9.30am to about 10.15am the students had a speech course in which they had to convince other students of what they were saying, using as many rhetorical tricks as possible. After a small break there was an explanation of the Karl Popper debate and at 11.00am the students had a preparation for the debating match that there will be on Wednesday. In that way they improved their eloquence, trying to speak about dificul and important arguments, like the influence in the social behavior by architectural design and the taxes that the governments should or shouldn’t impose on pollution. In the afternoon Dutch and Italian people went visiting Nieuw Energy (New Energy) and Nieuw Leiden (New Leiden), where they were able to discover some examples of social sustainable building and neighborhoods. At “New Energy” they were able to see the homeless that have a chance to work and that can provide their food. At “New Leiden” the students discovered how the designers projected the new sustainable buildings. Those are examples of the solutions to “get people connected”, so to be social sustainable. The next step was to come back school and to try to design the square near the school and to relate Socrates school with the building and the people with which they would a relationship . After the students presented their projects they was able to come back home and to organize themselves.

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