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Month: June 2015

Image of Rightmove's advert for its new School Checker

Are you in the right home, near the right school? Are you sure?

A video popped up on Facebook: Almost 2 years into a PhD studying a school and I’m less and less … More

governmentality, housing market, School, Thomas Lemke

Interview with Suzi Hall, urban ethnographer and architect

Suzanne (Suzi) Hall is an ethnographer at the LSE, London, where she explores people’s lives in urban spaces. Prior to … More

London, school architecture, spaces and politics, the built environment, urban ethnography

Interview with Judith Baines

Judith Baines was born in 1933 and is a former primary school teacher and Deputy Head.  She pioneered progressive teaching … More

Interview with Ruth Benn and Rebecca Skelton, teachers at Sparrow Farm Infants & Nursery school, Feltham.

Ruth Benn and Rebecca Skelton teach at Sparrow Farm Infants & Nursery school in Feltham, close to Heathrow Airport. Rebecca … More

adobe huts, architecture, book corners, classroom design, education, Feltham, primary school design, Sparrow Farm Infants and Nursery School, teacher training

Making Spaces, Forgetting Politics

Walls* are breaks (Vesely, 2013). They break into established categories of meaning and space and make new ones. They do … More

classifying by space, classrooms, learning spaces, school space, spaces and politics

Why are there so many interviews on the A&E site?

For a while, I’ve been posting interviews here without writing anything about why these interviews are such an integral part … More

architecture, education, interview, school design

Interview with Georgie Hughes, Reading Recovery Teacher Leader, Tower Hamlets

Georgina (Georgie) Hughes is the Reading Recovery teacher leader for the London Borough of Tower Hamlets and also trains teachers … More

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“Zigzag, white, no life”: a Martian’s View of Architecture

Our interactions with Google search results appear to contribute to the fetishization of Architecture as big white ribbed structures. This post explores why.

architecture, architecture and people, asocial architecture, wacky architecture

School Spaces and…

  • Architects' Perspectives (21)
  • Architecture & Language (7)
  • Architecture and acoustic design (5)
  • Architecture's Self-Image (6)
  • Architecture: Politics, Social (28)
  • Building Schools (38)
  • Cambridge Seminars 2018 (2)
  • Conferences & Publications (3)
  • Design Practice (15)
  • Educational Theory (12)
  • Futures of Education (14)
  • Guest Posts (5)
  • Historical Perspectives (7)
  • Imagined Spaces (10)
  • In the time of Covid-19 (4)
  • Inclusion & Access (6)
  • Miscellaneous (15)
  • Mythologies of Education (1)
  • Online spaces for learning (1)
  • Participatory Design with Children (3)
  • Post-Occupancy Evaluation (5)
  • School Librarians' Perspectives (1)
  • Schools & Economics (7)
  • Spaces for Learning (38)
  • Students' Perspectives (22)
  • Teachers' Perspectives (14)
  • Therapeutic spaces in schools (6)
  • Urban Planning (1)

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