Links & Resources

Here you will find links and resources pertinent to the learning spaces theme.

What if..? Re-imagining Learning Spaces. what if..?A 2006 ‘Opening Education’ report written by Dr Tim Rudd, Carolyn Gifford, Jo Morrison and Professor Keri Facer for Futurelab. It was informed by a practitioner workshop intended to create hypothetical scenarios that help us to rethink how education might be designed otherwise and suggest what this might mean in terms of design of spaces for learning and teaching.

Reshaping Our Learning Landscape: reshaping our learning landscapeA Collection of Provocation Papers. This collection of papers was pulled together by the Transforming Croydon Schools Team in 2010 to provoke more radical thinking to inform the now defunct Building Schools for the Future Programme. Papers include: Dr Tim Rudd’s ‘Modelling Transformation: Co-design as Pedagogy, Embedding Learner Voice through BSF’, as well as other thought provoking papers from Sean McDougall, Prakash Nair, jellyellie, Neil Hutchinson, Tom Weaver and Darren Atkinson.

Transforming Schools for the Future: A Collection of Provocation Papers. This collection of provocation papers offers different perspectives on how to rethink learning spaces of the future and was a partnership between Futurelab and Toshiba. The papers aim to promote discussion and debate and include papers by Dr Tim Rudd, Nick Page, Bob Harrison, Rosemary Luckin and a foreword by Lord David Puttnam

Reimagining Outdoor Learning Spaces: Primary Capital, Co-Design and Educational Transformation. This Futurelab Handbook written by Dr Tim Rudd in 2008 looks at the possibilities for rethinking the design of outdoor learning spaces in order to promote co-construction and co-design in the learning process. It has numerous links to other projects and organisations and also emphasises the potential of new technologies for enhancing outdoor spaces and learning in ways that are still far from commonplace.

Thinking Space: A Workshop Resource to Support the Visioning of Learning Spaces for the Future. This workshop resource was written by Dr Tim Rudd, Kieron Kirkland, Dr Carlo Perotta and Marisa Harlington for Futurelab as a tool for engagement and co-design to support the development of more innovative learning spaces. It includes a number of workshop activities that can be run with both learners and teachers alike. This resource was developed in partnership with CABE and Portsmouth City Council.

Livelab Academy: A Hypothetical ‘Case Study’. Developed as a Futurelab provocation paper to stimulate debate and thinking around the design of new learning spaces, Dr Tim Rudd, Nick Page and Maria Patsarika consider what a new learning space, designed as a global reference site for innovative learning and teaching based on meaningful relationships and collaborative activities with national and international organisations might be like. It emphasises meaningful, hands on, and learning by doing with a flexible and emergent set of learning activities aimed at promoting 21st century learning skills and competencies.

Reimagining the Design of Outdoor Learning and Play Spaces
Dr Tim Rudd’s presentation at BETT 2009 arguing for more transformational educational policies and initiatives to place children at the heart of the educational spaces design processes and to create more dynamic and engaging outdoor play and learning spaces that can embed children’s rights and encourage the holistic development of learners.

Space for Personalised Learning

Space for Personalised Learning was a DCSF project that sought to identify the spatial features that supported schools in their ability to deliver the new ways of learning in ‘pilot’ spaces. The project resulted in a final report offering detailed information on the design interventions that had been shown to achieve the desired change, and the processes involved.

This site compiles the output, including a final summary report, an interactive guide to the design process used by the team, facilitator guides and tools.

Personalising Learning through Spatial Redesign
Dr Tim Rudd’s presentation at BETT 2010 considering what would characterise a personalised learning landscape and how this might be translated into the design of new learning spaces and transform the practices within them.

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