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Scottish Executive – Schools Estate Branch BUILDING EXCELLENCE

Scottish Executive – Schools Estate Branch BUILDING EXCELLENCE Royal College of Surgeons’ Hall - Edinburgh 29 March 2007. ENABLING PLACEMAKING The role of design in supporting Community Learning. John Worthington Founder DEGW Graham Willis Professor University of Sheffield

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Scottish Executive – Schools Estate Branch BUILDING EXCELLENCE

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  1. Scottish Executive – Schools Estate Branch BUILDING EXCELLENCE Royal College of Surgeons’ Hall - Edinburgh 29 March 2007 ENABLING PLACEMAKING The role of design in supporting Community Learning John Worthington Founder DEGW Graham Willis Professor University of Sheffield Professorial Fellow the University of Melbourne www.degw.com

  2. Buildings can be both a liability and an asset • Space may be: • Expensive • Poorly utilised • Costly to maintain • Slow to procure and dispose of • However, space can be: • Focus for communicating identity • Key education resource • Stimulant to individuals and the community • Valuable source of return Charles Renee Mackintosh, Scotland Street School, Glasgow

  3. Architects design spaces, people make them places Managing Continuous Change “Enjoyable Cities are the result of DESIGNING MEANINGFUL SPACE within which people are stimulated to interact to make MEMORABLE PLACES” Bristol - Glasgow - London - Madrid - Melbourne - Milan - New York - Paris - Sydney

  4. The School is a Microcosm of the City DEGW: Farnborough College, Interiors 1986

  5. Your building can support: • Efficiency • Achieving more with less • Driving down costs and using space more intensely • Effectiveness • Improving learning outcomes • Expression • Transmitting knowledge and community values Will Alsop, Fawood Children Centre, Brent London

  6. New building creates a framework to support creative teaching Hellerup School, Denmark Play Connection Non Programmed Learning Storytelling Experiment Reflect

  7. Inviting Forms Herman Hertzberger, Apollo School, Amsterdam 1980-83

  8. Building Project Process Continuous dynamic process – briefing, designing, using, learning • Merging Two Interests • Learning and Building • Introduction to: • Forms of learning • Pedagogic models • Different intelligences • STUDY TRIP: • Inspiration • Exchange experiences • Shared/common references • TOOLS: • The Sketch • “Goblen” Visualising settings • Space diagrams • Virtual models • Cardboard models Hellerup School, Denmark “Translating the learning process and pedagogic principles with building blocks is a metamorphosis for both the project and the participant”

  9. Match pedagogical aspirations to building opportunities Kazumi Kudo, High School, Fukuoka, Japan

  10. Managing paradox Accepting conflicting demands Intensification Using existing resources more effectively Upside down thinking Questioning perceived wisdom, rethinking the paradigm Three themes for thought:

  11. Success is the outcome of continuous commitment and attention DEGW: Big Arts Week: Working with Schools

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