It never ceases to amaze me the delight young people can have when shown an insight into nature. I work in the design dept of a city center college and the students are doing a project relating to cultural identity. We are focusing on what it is to be Scottish, through looking at traditional crafts and how artists and designers use them in the 21st C.
A couple of the students were looking at basketry and temporary structures, so at lunch time I went out along the Clyde and collected a bunch of willow, knife out in City center I wonder whit the polis wid say.
I took the willow, with catkins, into class in the afternoon and to see some of their wee faces light up was a delight. Questions of what is it? Answer, its where wee rabbits get their tails, where does it come from? Answer, a special place not far from here...
It reminded me that even the alcopop swiging, playstation playing, text sending generation can appreciate their natural environment if only we find ways of introducing it.
A couple of the students were looking at basketry and temporary structures, so at lunch time I went out along the Clyde and collected a bunch of willow, knife out in City center I wonder whit the polis wid say.
I took the willow, with catkins, into class in the afternoon and to see some of their wee faces light up was a delight. Questions of what is it? Answer, its where wee rabbits get their tails, where does it come from? Answer, a special place not far from here...
It reminded me that even the alcopop swiging, playstation playing, text sending generation can appreciate their natural environment if only we find ways of introducing it.
