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Briefing for Education Benefit:An International Perspective
Scotland’s School Estate ConferenceVictoria Quay, Edinburgh; 25 November 2013
Alastair Blythwww.alastairblyth.com
Briefing process for Education Benefit:The needs of learners, how are they changing and why?
The activities of learning and where it happens
How can the built environment support it?
À l’École, Villemard, 1910, Bibliotèque Nationale de France
A 1910 prediction of a class in the year 2000
A class in the year 2005
… now Technology enables…
Student with wax tablet 500 BC
Student with electronic tablet 2010 AD
… learning anywhere at anytime
© Fiona Young
“I have access to all the knowledge in the world. I want help learning how to use it!”
A Recipe for Success: Transforming Learning Environments through Dynamic Local Partnerships. CELE conference, Turku, Finland. Feb 2012
15 year old Student to a conference of educators
… and, in the words of one student…
To meet the demands of 21st Century skillsEducation is being driven by the need to develop students’ ability to be more:
– Adaptable– Creative and innovative– Collaborative– Responsive– Self-directed
Source: OECD Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (2011) “The Nature of Learning: Using Research to Inspire Practice
… an Effective Learning Environment should be:
Source: OECD Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (2011) “The Nature of Learning: Using Research to Inspire Practice
… so how do we create physical settings to support:
– Collaboration– Individual work– Responsive to
different needs– Formal and
informal
?
Explore: “What is involved in the activities of ‘Learning’?”
Perhaps take away the building to understand its role
© David Ascoli
Uniformity and conformity
Individualised, collaborative
There is a shift from:to
Delivery Driven Learning led
“A building that allows students to want to learn rather than just containing the learning process.”
Student from High Tech High, San Diego 30 Sept 2008
A student voice…
“Create somewhere relaxing and bright, so you can open the windows and see out; you know, somewhere you actually want to be for 7 hours a day!”
Student from High Tech High, San Diego 30 Sept 2008
A student voice…
Some Examples:
Outstanding Example: Designing for Education: Exemplary Educational Facilities 2011, OECD
Fuji Kindergarten, Tachikawa City, TokyoArchitects: Takaharu Tezuka and Yui Tezuka
© Katsuhisa Kida/ FOTOTECA
“Good design starts with people!”
© Katsuhisa Kida/ FOTOTECA© Takaharu Tezuka
© Takaharu Tezuka © Takaharu Tezuka
INSIDEOUTSIDE&
Dandenong High School, Victoria, Australia
• Regeneration• Committed leadership• Collaboration – design / users
© Peter Clarke
Architect: Hayball
Photos: © Peter Clarke
© Hayball
Albany Senior High School, Auckland, New ZealandArchitect: Jasmax Ltd
Designing for Education: Compendium of Exemplary Educational Facilities 2011, OECD
Prototype school
Albany Senior High School, Auckland, New Zealand
Learning and Innovation Network, Mexico DF, MexicoArchitect: Ludens
Designing for Education: Compendium of Exemplary Educational Facilities 2011, OECD
© Fundación Proacceso ECO A.C.
New use for old buildingsServing low income communities
© Fundación Proacceso ECO A.C.
© Fundación Proacceso ECO A.C.
Science Centre, Lund University15 000 primary / secondary school children visit every year
Planetarium, Puebla22,000 primary/secondary students visited in 2012
Learning outside the school boundary
