Course: Building Belonging in a Globalised and Mobile World

The Interfaith Childhoods project, led by Professor Anna Hickey-Moody, investigated the ways people felt they belonged to certain cities in Australia and the UK. Specifically, the research explored the perceptions …

Semiotics is useful for explaining how spaces and images communicate messages without using words. Reading images for themes of belonging is a way of conducting a semiotic analysis. Roland Barthes …

The NEB initiative calls on people to imagine and build together a sustainable and inclusive future that is beautiful for our eyes, minds, and souls. What is the NEB? The …

Just as the creation of natural shared spaces, as we saw in the previous step with Ulia Garden, can combine to support sustainability and belonging, so too can the refurbishment …

Caring for the environment is a key aspect of building belonging. Ulia Garden was an awarded project of the NEB Prizes 2021 in the category ‘Reinvented places to meet and …

Semiotics is the investigation of how meaning is created and communicated. Its origins lie in the study of how visual and linguistic signs and symbols create meaning and how they …

In the previous steps we explored different ways individuals identify with social groups, collectives and places as sites of belonging, and the benefits of belonging to our individual and collective …

Places are more than just locations on a map. It is human attachment and stories linked to places that make them unique. A sense of place is a unique collection …