1st Edition
Design for Education Spaces and Tools for Learning
Introduction
Ana Rute Costa and Rachel Cooper
PART I The Design of Learning Environments | CONCEPTION
1 Feedback on School Design to Architects: What Is Currently Obtainable and How Do We Improve It?
Vanessa Whittem
2 Beyond the School Walls: Breaking Down Barriers
Teresa Heitor and Alexandra Alegre
3 Deliberate Innovation in the Design of Learning Spaces for Future Generations
Elizabeth Masters, Benjamin Cleveland, and Clare Newton
4 Transforming Learning Spaces for Child Development: Lessons from Studies in Primary Schools in Bangladesh
Matluba Khan
PART II Design and the Social Construct of Learning Environments | PERCEPTION
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
6 Six Organizational Factors that Constrain the School Occupation and Affect Young People’s Learning Experiences
Ana Rute Costa
7 A Call to Action: A Collaborative and Learning‑Led Approach for the Design of Future Learning
Terry White and Murray Hudson
8 Design for Learning: An Experiential Analysis of School Places in a Uruguayan Setting
Paula Cardellino and Scott Alterator
PART III Participatory Design Processes: Users’ Perspectives on Learning Environments | INTERACTION
9 Design Games as a Method of Teaching and Research
Henry Sanoff
10 Rethinking the School and the City with Children: Architectural Research Using Walkthrough
Gonçalo Canto Moniz, Carolina Coelho, Carolina Ferreira, and Vitório Leite
11 Creating ‘Perfect’ New Learning Spaces: Collaboration to Align Design and Use
Bodil Hovaldt Bøjer and Pamela Woolner
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
Bhavini Pandya, Mel Shute, and Anna Patuck
PART IV Users’ Experiences of Learning Environments | EXPERIENCE
13 Mucking About: Designing Hands‑on Experiences for Place‑Based and Environmental Education
Serena Pollastri and Liz Edwards
14 FUSE and Co‑Designing Tools for Discovery with Primary School Children and Teachers
Leon Cruickshank, Lee Brewster, Diane Potts, Violet Owen, and Nik Marsdin
15 The Change Laboratory as a Collaborative Approach to Designing Tools and Activity Systems for Learning
Brett Bligh
16 Food for Life: Scouts Leading Grassroots Intervention on Food Security and Nutrition in Sub‑Saharan Africa
Nelson Opany
17 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.
