Making a reality of your vision for learning
Working with Students
My experience facilitates the following services:
- Research of client’s development needs.
- Strategic and outline learning brief for schools and academy programmes.
- Education change and transition strategies into new learning spaces.
- Integrated interior design for learning environments.
- Design of interior and external spaces to meet contemporary learning needs.
- Development of teaching and learning tools.
- Delivery of e-learning development and adoption plans.
- Staff and students change management programmes.
- Working in partnerships with staff, students and the learning community to promote change.
- Learning led design for architects, design professionals and contractors.
- Post occupancy review and evaluation of learning facilities.
- Interior design and equipment provision for schools and academies.
- Design and specification of generic and specialist learning zones.
- Evidence based and action research to inform school design.
- Refurbishment and remodeling of buildings for educational use.
- Overseas and international working.
Original design layout of the Humanities learning zone with studio and connected break out areas at Plymouth School of Creative Arts. Working with staff to re-design and equip this zone to create a more defined and wider range of learning spaces within this area.
Range of Spaces Required to support learning approach.
- Quiet study areas
- Small meeting, coaching rooms, staff support spaces.
- Break out areas with learning resources adjacent to more formal learning and teaching area
- Soft seating, casual tables café style areas
- Half learning space size areas, furniture configurations and technology to enable collaboration, teacher directed, visual and noise challenges.
- Learning Spaces – closed and semi-open
- Studio spaces – specialist spaces
- Connected spaces
- Formal and Informal learning areas
- Resource areas for student access.
Remodelling and prototyping a learning space for 90 students
