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Engage, Enrich, Envision: Creating a Common Language for Learning Space
When working with people from different disciplines, it is perhaps obvious that everyone should be able to grasp the basic concepts and language that the others use. If they cannot, then such...
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Designing from Inside Out: Lessons from Sydney
Strong client leadership, a clear and well articulated innovative vision for education, and iconic architect Frank Gehry promises to do more than just raise the profile of the business school at...
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Briefing for Better School Design
Fifteen years ago I co-wrote a book on briefing for better design. Recently I have been writing advocacy for one government that reiterates the same concept. Library at Sheffield Hallam University, UK...
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Talking to Trainee Teachers in the Coldest City on Earth
Designing Schools for the Coldest City Earth – Part 2 I have just been talking to a group of trainee teachers in Yakutsk about the design and use of space in schools. I was invited by the Education...
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Creating Space to Re-imagine the Learning Environment
How can we better help teachers imagine the changes they need to make to improve their learning environment? Manipulating the space. What can we do here? If you believe, as I do, that effective design...
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What is a sustainable learning environment?
To understand sustainable learning environments it is important to understand how the physical environment contributes to a wider, more complex system. Indeed surely a building cannot be sustainable in...
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The Real Shift in School Design
Partial plan of Epping Views, by Gray Puksand Architects 2007. The corridors have been incorporated into the learning spaces. ©Gray Puksand The biggest, and I think the real, shift in school design is...
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Understanding Complexity in Clever Classrooms
Differences in the physical characteristics of classrooms explain 16% of the variation in learning progress over a year, says the research findings from the Holistic Evidence and Design (HEAD) project....
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How can your school do things better?
There needs to be better evidence for the decisions we make when designing and creating learning environments. Much of what is done, is based on ‘evidence’ that is often not substantiated yet presented...
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Future Learning Spaces: The shape of things to come…
The first in a series of forums by UK Learning for this year focuses on International and UK trends that are demonstrating through research and evidence-based practice the need to rethink approaches to...
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Creating the Intuitive Learning Environment
Understanding how people behave as they do is key to creating responsive environments. I was in a school the other day. It was a delight to be in. Its overall aesthetic design wasn’t anything to speak...
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Intelligent Learning Environment
Can we describe what an intelligent modern learning environment should be like? By intelligent, I mean buildings that are designed to support teaching and learning and those who use them. I think that...
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