ABSTRACT
This chapter explores how geography and creativity can be combined to help build a preferred and hopeful future. It focuses especially on the way that places and environments can be a catalyst for creative thinking. The connections that we make with the world around us, coupled with the uniqueness of every human mind and life, offer farreaching possibilities for education. Helping children to develop qualities such as hope, co-operation, trust, fairness and love in relation to their surroundings is essential if they are to engage with the world around them and care about its future. There is now ample evidence that issues to do with sustainability in its widest sense will provide the metanarrative for the twenty first century. It is argued that building children’s social, emotional and intellectual capacity alongside these positive qualities can promote the capabilities they will need for sustainable living.
