Design Process: linking services, organisations and space
In a recent post, The Client is Always Right, highlighting the importance of a well run engagement process with clients, we asked: How do you innovate around the physical environment, making it better for customers or learners, when space and the way we use it is so culturally ingrained in an organisation’s behaviour? How do [...]
5 property centred organisations that need to change in a virtual society
In an increasingly virtual society, a number of organisations or organisational types with large property portfolios or physical presences on our high streets and in our malls are struggling to adapt to the new order. With the news that Blockbuster is preparing for a “pre-planned” bankruptcy in September, Fastcompany have posed the question: How should [...]
How schools are moving beyond the table and the chair
KI recently commissioned Flywheel to write a series of three articles on school furniture, aimed directly at senior leaders within schools. This article is part two of three. Part 1, on how you can use furniture to enhance the learning and teaching experience, is available here, and part 3, on creating a furniture strategy, is [...]
How you can use furniture to enhance the learning and teaching experience
KI recently commissioned Flywheel to write a series of three articles on school furniture, aimed directly at senior leaders within schools. This article is part one of three. Part 2, on moving beyond the table and chair, is available here, and part 3, on creating a furniture strategy, is available here. No new building in [...]
Building Schools for the Future: 5 Lessons for Future Researchers
Please note this article represents only the thoughts and views of Flywheel Ltd, and not its partners or clients. For those international readers, the new UK government has announced the end of the major school buildings project, Building Schools for the Future (BSF), already being referred to as “Labour’s building schools programme”. We always knew [...]
5 Innovations in School Design
It is often claimed it is difficult to be innovative with school design, since traditions and culture are so powerful within schools that change is difficult. This is not necessarily true, and over the last 100 years a significant amount of change has occurred and been embedded within the school building Not all of this [...]
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