Navigating this site - a short tour guide
The design and layout of this website can seem, on first encounter, frankly baffling.
It's certainly not a very conventional site.
With a single framework (HERE) for such a huge range of diverse services and approaches, there is just so much ground to cover in the PIEs concept itself- let alone the illustrations and actual practice examples.
For those new to the whole idea, and to the site, you will hopefully have begun at START HERE : HERE
Then you might either want to go straight to the Big Picture of PIEs 2.0, with 'PIEs - the basics' : HERE and follow any lead from there.
Or, for a broader introduction to the spirit of the PIE approach, you might browse the 'Some general advice pages' : (HERE)
For those with specific interests and concerns - which is most people - using the main tabs you can often go straight to the area or subject that drew you here in the first place, or something close enough, to make your way in (see: PIEs in practice : HERE ).
Or you might go to the Case studies and practice examples, to see if we have a selection there on the issues you want to explore: HERE
But there are far too many possible angles , weaving and inter-weaving, to make one straight channel for every possible viewer. To have many more would simply overload the view finder.
Instead, you may find yourself winding and wending your way around like a tourist in the mediaeval old town district of some modern bustling metropolis. Yes, there are the main roads, and the big plazas. But do feel free to browse, to branch off at any point and follow any thread on any issue.
Just to whet your appetite for some of the range we have here, have a look down the fairly eclectic selection in the side panel here.
PIEs case studies – a selection of new and used material by topic
NB: this collection of pages, and selection of examples, is always incomplete. We are constantly gathering and arranging new material; and these links and this material will be built up in stages. But the themes we currently propose to use are:
- Introducing the PIE approach : HERE
- The built environment and adaptations : HERE
- Using the whole environment: HERE
- Outreach, pathways, and environments without buildings : HERE
- PIEs, communities and a sense of belonging : HERE
- Clubhouses, cores, and campus models : HERE
- PIEs in therapy settings : HERE
- 'Psychologically informed business environments' : HERE
- Whole system PIEs : HERE
- PIEs and ‘exclusion-informed research’ HERE
You will very likely find it as or more useful to scan the site by theme, with its specific sub-sections, in which this same selection is re-shuffled and each individual example appears - with sometimes more additional examples - under one or (often several) more useful headings.
For a similar approach (and inevitably some overlapping material) from an earlier sample, see also: Recently added, in the Library : HERE