Innovative School Design

Multiplying Innovation and Success through Quality Learning Spaces

How can a deep-learning curriculum philosophy be visibly embedded in a school? Rob Carpenter explores the role of the learning environment in promoting curiosity, pedagogy and excellence.

11 Jul

Learning Spaces

Catholic Taste In Learning Space Design

“Forget a quadrangle for the school fete or assemblies” tempted St Luke’s Catholic College in New South Wales when it revealed plans for its new school at Marsden Park. Instead, their buildings were designed first and foremost for learning. Here, Greg Whitby and his team reflect on the influences and reasons behind their decisions.

3 Oct

Learning Spaces

Washrooms For All

Open plan, all-inclusive washrooms are becoming the norm in modern schools. Here, Jory Debenham reports on why they’re important for schools and what aspects are crucial for school leaders as they create more modern, student friendly spaces.

3 Oct

Learning Spaces

Engage Empower Enrich

Freemans Bay School in New Zealand is leading the way in implementing the government’s ‘innovative spaces’ learning strategy. Terry White shows us how an effective, learner led curriculum strategy can be fully supported using imaginative architecture.

3 Oct

Learning Spaces

Small and mighty: a micro-school mini-revolution

This is a story of how a little revolution emerging at the peripheries of the education debate is turning assumptions about what it takes to start a school on their head.

3 Oct

Learning Spaces

A Hub Of Creativity And Innovation

Across the education spectrum, we are engaging in broad discussions about what the future of education can and should look like. As educational planners and architects, we collaborate with schools, organizations and the community asking tough questions and collectively rethinking the future of teaching and learning. The topic of educational change - whether it be new math, teaching cursive, or how many books to keep in the library - seems to reoccur. How can we find a way forward without losing what was so valuable and successful in the past? Brad Leeper and Kerry Weig of INVISION explain.

3 Oct

Learning Spaces

The Dutch School Where Everyone Works

Workers and co-workers: the integral components of Holland’s ‘The Workplace’ (yes, some of you might still call it a school). Here, Mie Guldbaek Broens of consultants, LOOP.bz explains how they created and continue to develop their unique educational model.

3 Oct

Learning Spaces

Student Voice and Student Choice at the center of Learning

Terry White outlines the importance and success of the Association for Learning Environment’s mission to bring the voice of students into the planning and design of learning environments and talks to those who have developed, experienced and have been inspired by the programme.

1 Feb

Learning Spaces

High on ‘hygge’

When we asked Danish designer, Lene Jensby Lange which was her favourite project, she mentioned Høsterkøb Skole – probably the project that had the lowest budget. Here she tells us why.

1 Feb

Learning Spaces

The research imperative!

After a research trip that took in Stanford University, Florida’s Flagler County Public Schools decided they needed to shake up their learning environments. Joey DiPuma tells us how.

1 Feb

Learning Spaces

Disruptive Designs

Changing classrooms to learning landscapes – Rosan Bosch Studio’s work can be found the world over. What is it that makes their designs so recognisable?

1 Feb

Learning Spaces

New Year’s Resolutions

Ten things you should give up in 2018 for the sake of learning

1 Feb

Learning Spaces

A small space with big ideas

Joining two classrooms together was an interesting challenge for Cambridge based architects Chadwick Dryer Clarke as Murray Hudson found out.

1 Feb

Learning Spaces

How universities are implementing innovative learning spaces

Advances in technology have enabled students to have much greater flexibility in how, where and when they learn. When creating an environment where students can flourish both academically and personally it is important to ensure that you plan the space from their perspective.

18 Jan

Learning Spaces

Transitions: Melbourne, London, Grand Rapids

The University of Melbourne took to the road to establish what, worldwide, we’re discovering about innovative learning environments.

17 Nov

Learning Spaces

Eastern promise

Dani Martin, Chair of the Western Australia Chapter of Learning Environments Australasia tells us what she found interesting at the latest A4LE conference in Singapore.

17 Nov

Learning Spaces

Specialist Labs Come Of Age

What do you do when you want students to develop work-ready skills? Three schools, all of whom worked with FGM Architects, created vocational spaces right in the heart of their schools, involving local businesses along the way.

17 Nov

Learning Spaces

Re-Thinking The Vocational Space

Vocational education is often required to make do with more or less adapted standard classrooms or lo-tech practical workrooms. In the first of two articles on the movement to modernize and upgrade vocational education and the serviceability of its space design, Paul Hutton reports on a very challenging project in the American West.

17 Nov

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