The Changing Vocabulary of Education and its Spaces

A post exploring changes in the words used to talk about education e.g. the shift from “classroom” to “learning space”.

Interview with Irene Lindsay

Irene Lindsay is the Assistant Head of a 2-form entry primary school in Raynes Park, London, which was refurbished by … More

Shane Cryer manages the education sector in the UK and Ireland for Swedish acoustic experts, Ecophon. After a career in … More

Hedwig Heinsman is an architect who grew up in the Dutch Flevopolder and now lives and works in Amsterdam. … More

Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley, former British secretary of state for Education and Skills (2001-2) taught PE and Humanities … More

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

In which Marie, a 12-year-old student, explains how large, open-plan spaces feel claustrophobic.

Gert Biesta on school architecture and democracy, and learnification – a reductive reappraisal of education as learning.