Where We Learn
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eng
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Book
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272 pages
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9789492311580
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Reill1agining Educational Spaces
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Abstract
Education is the future or said differently, there is no future without learning. But as we don't know the future, education must adapt to every moment of contemporary life, respond and propose something new: a vision of the future. Hence in the proposition for education, two opposites meet. While the exact outcome of the future is uncertain, our vision and understanding of the present are brought to the fore within ideological and architectural structures that propose certainty. Adapting how we learn is the only way to learn something genuinely new.
In 2022, we know that our current situation is not promising. As a population, we face unprecedented planetary, political and social challenges that require immediate action. To harvest our time's technological and creative potential, we need to leave the straight-jacketed and strict paradigms once associated with a fruitful education behind and allow space for experimentation, inclusivity and expression. Expressing the hunger of multiple generations to change the world for the better, the spaces in which we learn are rapidly adapting to become radic yet fluid containers for the production and the sharing of knowledge, exactly how and where it is needed the most.
This book explores 43 projects at the forefront of this movement, picking up the four fundamental notions we have identified to drive the new spaces in which we learn. Accordingly, the book is organised into four chapters - Designing with Agility, lnnovtion, Community and Nature. Naturally, many of these projects respond to more than one driver. Reading the key takeaways of each chapter clarifies why that is a success and how they can be integrated when approaching a project with an education scope. The most important feature of the projects presented here is their diversity, arguing powerfully that there is no single way but a cacophony of possibilities and needs that include learning for multiple ages; learning in urban and rural settings; learning in solitude and community and learning in ways and spaces that have not been seen before.
What effect will these spaces have on our future and that of generations to come? We don't know with certainty, but we know that a different future is possible.We know that change can be learned. We hope that readers will be inspired by the courage of the architects included in this volume and find practical references to take and expand upon in their own spaces and communities.
Table of contents
4 INTRODUCTION -- 6 DESIGN WITH AGILITY -- 8 TEO Center for Culture, Art and Content A. Lerman Architects -- 16 Straf! KABO Beringen a2o architecten and AAC Architecture -- 24 ARTAVE/CCM Music School Aurora Arquitectos -- 28 Jinlong School Crossboundaries -- 32 Town House, Kingston University London Grafton Architects -- 36 The Check Point Building for the Faculty of Computer Sciences at Tel Aviv University Kimmel Eshkolot Architects -- 42 Bobergsskolan Max Arkitekter and Caroline Olsson Arkitektur -- 48 Xaverius College Kindergarten Borgerhout META architectuurbureau -- 54 Integrated Secondary School Mahlsdorf NKBAK -- 60 iADC Design Museum Rocco Design Architects Associates -- 66 X Museum Beijing TEMP -- 70 KEY TAKEAWAYS -- 72 DESIGN FOR INNOVATION -- 74 Avenues Shenzhen Early Learning Center Aybars Asci (Efficiency Lab for Architecture) -- 82 Aesthetic Lab CloudForm Laboratory -- 86 Baoshan WTE Exhibition Center Kokaistudios -- 90 Afterschool Learning Hubs 1 & 2 ksestudio -- 98 The Youth Activity Center Moguang Studio and REDe Architects -- 102 G's Academy Fukuoka Nomoto Sekkei -- 110 The University of Performing Arts Ernst Busch O&O Baukunst -- 118 Langenfeldgasse Primary and Vocational School PPAG architects -- 126 Idea Exchange Old Post Office RDHA -- 130 Kornets Hus Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter -- 134 Basisschool Veerkracht Studio Ard Hoksbergen and Studioninedots -- 140 Deakin Law School Building Woods Bagot -- 144 KEY TAKEAWAYS -- 146 DESIGN FOR COMMUNITY -- 148 Peach Hut Atelier XI -- 154 ARTCOR Calujac Architecture -- 158 Erdu Primary School GF Architecture and Paul Mok -- 162 Groenendaal College and Park Classrooms HUB -- 168 House of Knowledge Liljewall and MAF Arkitektkontor -- 176 Cayton Children's Museum OFFICEUNTITLED -- 182 Ydalir School and Kindergarten Ola Roald Arkitektur -- 188 Ket & Co B612associates and OSK-AR architecten -- 192 Mountain House in Mist Shulin Architecture Design -- 198 School by a School De Zwarte Hand and Studio Nauta -- 204 KEY TAKEAWAYS -- 206 DESIGN WITH NATURE -- 208 Biblioteca Padre Charbonneau Andrade Morettin Arquitetos -- 212 Rice Field Book store of Tanjiawan Agricultural Site Park Beeeed Atelier -- 216 Bennington College Commons Renovation Christoff : Finio Architecture -- 224 Park Pavilion, The Hoge Veluwe National Park De Zwarte Hond and Monadnock -- 230 Primary School and Kindergarten in Haslach Drei Architekten -- 236 David Brownlow Theatre Jonathan Tuckey Design -- 242 Media Library Epernon MU architecture -- 246 Cottonwood Canyon Experience Center Signal Architecture + Research -- 250 Glass House Laboratory STAY Architects -- 254 H-Farm Campus Zanon Architetti Associati -- 262 KEY TAKEAWAYS -- 264 DESIGNER INDEX -- 272 CREDITS
Description
Where We Learn investigates how learning spaces are evolving to be made more engaging, flexible and all-around better suited to today's challenges and opportunities.
When educational spaces are designed not only to suit, but to harness the power of new learning models, they have a catalytic potential to improve the way knowledge is shared and retained. At one time static, spaces where learning takes place have expanded far beyond the walls of the classroom to spill into more flexible and interactive settings.
Where We Learn offers some of the most novel insights into the design and performance of new environments that are better adapted to contemporary pedagogical practices. This book sheds light on over 40 projects worldwide, ranging from kindergarten, schools and universities to libraries, study cafes and museums. Geared towards readers interested in understanding the broader impact of design on the human experience, Where We Learn hihglights imaginative projects while remaining grounded in practical contexts and real-world settings.