Future of school design?
Architects Prakash Nair and Randall Fielding focus their work on physical school design to reflect good practices in schools and have many articles about this on their site, DesignShare.com as well as on their firm’s webpage.
Randall Fielding challenges us to think outside the box in designing schools to reflect a different model for teaching (a model that is a cross between Da Vinci’s studio, Einstein’s studio, and chef Jamie Oliver’s cooking studio!) in this excellent article that was published in Edutopia.
This fascinating commentary by Fielding’s colleague, Prakash Nair, about how school design needs to look at new models of education that are more “whole person” and Eastern was interesting to me in light of some of the conversations about the personal aspects of student learning we’ve had.
I’d be interested to hear your thoughts about their ideas. More food for thought!
Carolyn
