1st Edition
Design for Education Spaces and Tools for Learning
This book charts the impact of design on education, specifically focusing on how design can shape the spaces and tools for learning.
This edited collection brings together the work of designers, architects, engineers, professionals, educators, and researchers, and presents a series of case studies and research developed from across Europe, North America, South America, Africa, Australia, and Asia. The book provides the tools to develop innovative approaches to design for education, and illustrates the conversation and action required to foster socially responsible design for education. As the contributions show, we must look at education as an input and output of a complex system, and we need to adopt an interdisciplinary multiple stakeholder approach, bringing together experts from a range of different fields and backgrounds as a cohesive strategy to improve future learning and teaching environments.
Providing guidance and a theoretical framework for designing spaces and tools for learning, this book will be a useful resource for design and architecture students, as well as practitioners, educational researchers, educational practitioners, policymakers, and behaviour and built environment researchers.
Foreword
Peter Barrett
Introduction
Ana Rute Costa and Rachel Cooper
Part I: The Design of Learning Environments | CONCEPTION
Chapter 1. Feedback on School Design to Architects: What is Currently Obtainable and How do We Improve it?
Vanessa Whittem
Chapter 2. Beyond the School Walls: Breaking Down Barriers
Teresa Heitor and Alexandra Alegre
Chapter 3. Deliberate Innovation in the Design of Learning Spaces for Future Generations
Elizabeth Masters, Benjamin Cleveland, and Clare Newton
Chapter 4. Transforming Learning Spaces for Child Development: Lessons from Studies in Primary Schools in Bangladesh
Matluba Kahn
Part II: Design and the Social Construct of Learning Environments | PERCEPTION
Chapter 5. A Participatory Approach to Design Education with Children: An Overview of Methods and Tools from Two Diverse Case Studies in Haiti and India
Sruthi Atmakur-Javdekar
Chapter 6. Six Organizational Factors that Constrain School Occupation and Affect Young People’s Learning Experiences
Ana Rute Costa
Chapter 7. A Call to Action: A Collaborative and Learning-Led Approach for the Design of Future Learning
Murray Hudson and Terry White
Chapter 8. Design for Learning: An Experiential Analysis of School Places in a Uruguayan Setting
Paula Cardellino and Scott Alterator
Part III: Participatory Design Processes: User’s Perspectives on Learning Environments | INTERACTION
Chapter 9. Design Games as a Method of Teaching and Research
Henry Sanoff
Chapter 10. Rethinking the School and the City with Children: Architectural Research Using Walkthrough
Gonçalo Canto Moniz, Carolina Coelho, Carolina Ferreira, and Vitório Leite
Chapter 11. Creating ‘Perfect’ New Learning Spaces: Collaboration to Align Design and Use
Pamela Woolner and Bodil Hovaldt Bøjer
Chapter 12. A Catalyst for Change: Developing the Relationship Between Pedagogy and Space through a Process of Collaborative Review with Teachers and Learners at Trumpington Park Primary School, Cambridge
Mel Shute, Anna Patuck and Bhavini Pandya
Part IV: User’s Experiences on Learning Environments | EXPERIENCE
Chapter 13. Mucking About: Designing Hands-on Experiences for Place-Based and Environmental Education
Serena Pollastri and Liz Edwards
Chapter 14. FUSE and Co-Designing Tools for Discovery with Primary School Children and Teachers
Leon Cruikshank, Lee Brewster, Diane Potts, Violet Owen, and Nik Marsdin
Chapter 15. The Change Laboratory as a Collaborative Approach to Designing Tools and Activity Systems for Learning
Brett Bligh
Chapter 16. The Food for Life Programme, African Scout Regional Office
Nelson Opany
Conclusion
Rachel Cooper and Ana Rute Costa
Biography
Ana Rute Costa is an architect, researcher, and educator at Lancaster School of Architecture, Lancaster University, UK.
Rachel Cooper is Distinguished Professor of Design Management and Policy at Lancaster University, UK.
