Goals:

- To reflect upon places that are especially important to you and the impact they have had on your life
- To consider how your past experiences in places shape you in the here-and-now
- To add an additional dimension to your space-making explorations based on an enhanced understanding of your own experiences, preferences and meanings

Assignment:

This project offers you an opportunity for self-reflection and introspection. It is a way to connect your own life experiences in places with your creative process and the way in which you approach your chosen profession. This assignment is designed to provide you with a way to articulate your experiences of place.

An environmental autobiography is much like a standard autobiography with one important difference: The focus is on places and how they have shaped who you are and how you view the world. Do not focus exclusively on other people and events, but include a discussion of the places themselves (what about the place made it meaningful?)

Begin with your childhood, perhaps with your earliest or fondest memories of a place and describe the most influential of them. Then, move through to the present, considering how more current places have influenced you.

You do not need to include every single place where you have ever lived or spent time. Just focus on those places that are particularly significant to you and explain why they are significant:

- What is it about those places, and the experiences you have had in them, that make them so important?

- What places would you want someone to know about if they were to truly understand who you are?