Sustainable Designs for Living and Learning: Embedding Multilingualism into Learning for Sustainability (SDLL) project is an exciting new three-year research initiative funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AH/Z507404/1). This project brings together a diverse network of partners and explores how languages education, the arts and sustainability can work together to support creative, ethical and regenerative learning for the future in our schools. Led collaboratively by the University of Glasgow, the University of Strathclyde and SCILT, Scotland’s National Centre for Languages, partners include Permaculture Association, Scotdec, and Creative Glasgow, in addition to three primary schools: West Primary (Paisley), Cradlehall Primary (Inverness), and Thornwood Primary (Glasgow). At the heart of the project lie the principles and ethics of permaculture and these are helping guide work as the project team co-create with the partners ‘multilingual living spaces’ in the three schools.
Grounded in the project’s core values and principles, the SDLL team will collaborate closely with all partners to co-create a learning framework that knits together Learning for Sustainability, multilingualism and creative practices, shaping school spaces that reflect balance, creativity, and care in action. By weaving together these strands, the SDLL project aims to reimagine what it means to live and learn sustainably — cultivating classrooms and communities where languages, creativity and care for the planet thrive side by side.
Project website: Multilingual Seedlings – Sustainable Designs for Living and Learning (SDLL): Embedding Multilingualism into Learning for Sustainability
