Education in the time of Covid-19: who gets to decide and when? A call for increased participation in the design and adaptation of education and schools

This is a guest post by Dr Tom Bellfield, a part 2 architectural assistant at SCABAL, an architecture practice specialising … More

Anyone for online hopscotch? Why school space (still) matters in the digital age.

This is a guest post by Dr Pamela Woolner, Senior Lecturer in Education at Newcastle University. Pam has been researching … More

This is a guest post by Catherine Burke, Professor Emerita of the History of Education at the University of Cambridge. … More

After several years of working with children in a busy primary school corridor, two teaching assistants trained in emotional literacy … More

Here, I offer a practical perspective on creating a therapeutic space in a school, with comments from people who have … More

It is important to be aware that open-plan formats are not that helpful for these pupils. Let’s recognise how that … More

As adults, were we to visit a therapist or counsellor, it would be hard to imagine sitting in an open-plan … More

The design of spaces in schools for therapeutic purposes is the focus of this series of posts. These are spaces … More

John Storyk is the Founding Partner and Director of Design of Walters Storyk Design Group (WSDG): an architect and acoustician … More

“School design, which is finely tuned to the full range of activities and needs of adults and children who inhabit … More

When “assessing the impact of education”, argue Edgerton, McKechnie and McEwen (2011, p.34), “researchers have tended to focus on what … More

One of the aims of this website is to open up a discussion about the ways in which school design … More

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

A short film about reading, place and memory in an East London Primary school.