In 2008 the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) set up a project to understand the relationship between the school environment and fundamental shifts in education that were rapidly establishing themselves as a priority, globally.

The aim was for the project, Space for Personalised Learning, to identify the spatial features that supported schools in their ability to deliver the new ways of learning and make widely available detailed information on the design interventions – and the ways of arriving at them – that had been shown to achieve the desired change.

Tom Weaver of Flywheel acted as the Project Lead Consultant on behalf of DEGW and Davis Langdon, guiding the project strategy and intellectual direction of the project, creating the overriding design process, and leading the consortium and pilot teams in terms of design content.

The project summary is available below. The full report can be downloaded from the main site at www.space4pl.net, which also contains the project design process, facilitator guides and case studies.