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Sustainable Designs for Living and Learning (SDLL) is an interdisciplinary research project led by the University of Glasgow and SCILT at the University of Strathclyde. The project promotes creative and multilingual approaches to Learning for Sustainability, underpinned by ethics of Permaculture: Earth Care, People Care and Fair Share. We are now moving into Year 2…
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The SDLL project aims to turn big dreams into reality: we work with school communities and their gardens and redesign these as generative spaces where languages, the arts and principles of permaculture can thrive. While we find our pathways and develop our slow and nature-attuned solutions, people may wonder how do we plan to bring…
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Jane Catlin, Teaching Fellow at Strathclyde’s Institute of Education at the University of Strathclyde, Dr Lavinia Hirsu, Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics at the University of Glasgow and the SDLL project leader, and Karen Faulds, Professional Development Officer at SCILT, Scotland’s National Centre for Languages, speak to Molly, Communications Intern at SCILT, about the SDLL…
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Scotland’s National Centre for Languages (SCILT) invites you to join us for the official launch of the Sustainable Designs for Living and Learning Logo Exhibition! Come along and celebrate the creativity, imagination, and sustainable thinking of pupils from Scottish-based primary schools. This exhibition showcases logos created by young learners as part of SDLL, an innovative…
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An opportunity for you to dive deeper into permaculture through a Permaculture Design Course in Glasgow starting in March. This is the same course which our core team did last year, which set the foundations for the SDLL project. The first Saturday will be at the inspirational Concrete Garden, and the subsequent five Saturdays will…
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This term has been a busy one now that the SDLL project is in full swing. The research team and artists have been working closely with our partner schools to explore the first principle of permaculture: Observation. This foundational principle encourages us to slow down, pay attention, and develop a deeper understanding of the natural…
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Now more than ever, projects such as SCILT’s Sustainable Designs for Living and Learning are vital. At a time when schools and multilingual children face political attacks and damaging narratives about “smashing culture,” this work powerfully reaffirms that languages do not erase culture – they enrich it. Our classrooms are home to multilingual seedlings: children…
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How do languages and sensations interact? This was the provocation of the conference Multisensuality and Language, an online event that took place on November 14-15, 2025. Our team represented by Florence Logan (performance-maker) and Lavinia Hirsu (researcher) shared our emerging work in a presentation entitled: “Dancing with Nature: exploring multilingualism and sustainability through hyperlocality” on…
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As part of Sustainable Designs for Living and Learning, we are inviting primary and early years teachers and education staff to take part in a survey. The survey aims to gather information on how multilingualism and Learning for Sustainability (LfS) are currently supported in Scottish primary schools and early years settings. This information will help…
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To prepare for our involvement in the Sustainable Designs for Living and Learning project, members of the research team, Dr Lavinia Hirsu and Dr Dobrochna Futro (University of Glasgow), Karen Faulds (SCILT) and Jane Catlin (University of Strathclyde), began our permaculture journey in April, undertaking a Permaculture Design course (PDC) with the Permaculture Association. This…