Project Based Learning and Artefact Space
We are playing with an interesting idea on a secondary school project we are involved with. The project involves creating a year 7/8 project based learning zone for 50% of the year 7/8 curriculum time out of some existing space. Projects will be interdisciplinary, involving staff from multiple departments and teaching assistants coming together to [...]
The Impact of Dining Space on Healthy Eating
It is rare to find a direct cause and effect between space and behaviour within schools: often the issues are simply to complex to be distilled down to a single variable. Not so with dining space. Researcher Laura Smith from the Cornell Food and Brand Lab presented the findings of the study “Convenience Drives Choice [...]
University Living Space: more than residence
A few years ago, something quietly happened that had a fundamental impact on the nature of higher education real estate: the average price of a laptop dipped below that of a desktop, for the first time. Mobility was finally here, and affordable for the masses. Not too long after, things became very cheap, with the [...]
Personal Space
This article was originally developed for Transforming Croydon School’s set of provocation papers, Reshaping Our Learning Landscape. Choice, Control, Democracy and Freedom in Schools “For a man’s house is his castle,” explained Sir Edward Coke in his book on common law, The Institutes of the Laws of England, in 1628. At the time, this expression [...]
Space to Powernap
There has been substantial research about the powernap over the last few years. We know the optimum time to sleep for in order to recharge the brain whilst still being able to be alert afterwards: roughly 20 minutes. We know it is better mid afternoon than an extra 20 minutes in the morning. We know [...]
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