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’.