Design for Education Spaces and Tools for Learning Design for Social Responsibility Series

This book charts the impact of design on education, specifically focussing on how design can shape the spaces and tools for learning.

This edited collection brings together the work of designers, architects, engineers, professionals, educators, and researchers, and presents a series of case studies and research developed from across Europe, North America, South America, Africa, Australia, and Asia. The book will provide professional designers and researchers with the tools to develop innovative approaches to design for education, and it illustrates the conversation and action required to foster socially responsible design. As the contributions show, we must look at education as an input and output of a complex system, and we need to adopt an interdisciplinary multiple stakeholder approach, bringing together experts from a range of different fields and backgrounds as a cohesive strategy to improve future learning and teaching environments.

Providing guidance and a theoretical framework for designing spaces and tools for learning, this book will be a useful resource for design and architecture students, as well as practitioners, educational researchers, educational practitioners, policymakers, and behaviour and built environment researchers.

Foreword | Emeritus Professor Peter Barratt Part I | Introduction, Professor Rachel Cooper, Dr Ana Rute Costa Part II | Design of Spaces for Learning Chapter 1 | A Learning Environment Design Framework for Primary Schools: A Typology of Learning Spaces, Dr Matluba Kahn Chapter 2 | Architectural Research with Children: Rethinking the School and the City, Dr Gonçalo Canto Moniz, Dr Carolina Coelho, Dr Carolina Ferreira, Dr Vitório Leite Chapter 3 | Six Organizational Factors that Constrain School Occupation and Affect Young People’s Learning Experiences, Dr Ana Rute Costa Chapter 4 | Beyond the School Walls: Breaking Down Barriers, Professor Teresa Heitor, Assistant Professor Alexandra Alegre Chapter 5 | Feedback on School Design to Architects – What is Currently Obtainable and How do We Improve it? Vanessa Whittem Part III | Design of Tools for Learning Chapter 6 | The Change Laboratory as a Collaborative Approach to Designing Tools and Activity Systems for Learning, Dr Brett Bligh Chapter 7 | Freeaction Co‐Designing Tools for Discovery with Primary School Children and Teachers, Professor Leon Cruikshank, Dr Diane Potts, Nik Marsden, Lee Brewster, Violet Owen Chapter 8 | Mucking About: Designing Hands‐on Experiences in a Pedagogy of Environmental Care, Dr Serena Pollastri, Dr Liz Edwards Chapter 9 | A Catalyst for Change: Developing the Relationship Between Pedagogy and Space through a Process of Collaborative Review with Teachers and Learners at Trumpington Park Primary School, Cambridge, Mel Shute, Anna Patuck and Bhavini Pandya Chapter 10 | Inclusive online and digital learning tools (To be completed) Part IV | Reimagining Spaces and Tools for Learning Chapter 11 | Young People’s Perspectives on Future Learning Spaces, Dr Ana Rute Costa Chapter 12 | Creating ‘Perfect’ New Learning Spaces: Collaboration to Align Design and Use, Dr Pamela Woolner Chapter 13 | Design for Education as Policy Instrument (To be completed) Chapter 14 | Deliberate Innovation in the Design of Learning Spaces for Future Generations, Elizabeth Masters, Dr Benjamin Cleveland, Dr Claire Newton Chapter 15 | An Agenda for Learning‐led Design: A collaborative Approach to Future Educational Design. A Call to Action for the Vision and Design of Future Learning, Murray Hudson and Terry White
Conclusion and Final Remarks, Professor Rachel Cooper, Dr Ana Rute Costa

Ana Rute Costa is an architect, researcher and educator at the Lancaster School of Architecture, Lancaster University, United Kingdom

Rachel Cooper is Distinguished Professor of Design Management and Policy at Lancaster University, United Kingdom.