Classroom Architecture

I was chatting to Donna at the end of the session yesterday about the nature of Architecutre & Space in the Classroom, how this might affect the learner… I found this link & thought it might be of some use – though deals more with ‘practical’ layouts of classrooms, rather than grappling with larger issues of power & the order of spaces & how this affects human development & behaviour, heres the link http://classroom.4teachers.org/

Another site is: http://openarchitecturenetwork.org/competitions/challenge/2009 Which has some really interesting videos on YouTube documenting the Open Architecture Challenge for 2009, take a look:

Teton Valley Community School

Someone to look at Donna would be Michel Foucault (if you fancy a bit of mind wrenching) – he’s written about Prison architecture, or the architecture of confinement, and is interested in the power relations involved in Architecture & the structuring of ‘space’.

Follow up to the Theory/Practice divide…

Hi again all,

Please comment about your initial ideas regarding your education project, with either your elected tutor (I know I have those in the lemon group), or any of us, through this post.

Remember the education project has a few components…

1. to be educational…some aspect of learning occurring for those viewing/interacting with your work
2. to be based around the theme of “still life with”, as loosely or contemporarily based as you wish…but be sure to conceptualise why it is still life with???!??!?!?                      and
3. to be interactive… the viewer being a participant viewer to some degree… this is the fun/most challenging part from my perspective.

Enjoy! Have fun with the thinking/sketching/planning/creating…

I will be catching up with you all in the coming weeks, and I am intrigued as to which way you are interpreting the brief; remember the brief can be as personal and interpreted as you wish!!!

EM