In his ethnography Wisdom Sits in Places, the anthropologist Keith Basso reveals the Western Apaches’ poetic sense of place. Landscape symbolizes a community’s history and is intrinsically linked with the memory of ancestors and ...READ»
Kids are terrible at concentrating, until you put a video game in front of them, and suddenly, they’re doctors performing brain surgery. (Or so conventional wisdom goes.) Dutch architects i29 put that theory to work on the furniture ...READ»
"Education is the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume responsibility for it… And education, too, is where we decide whether we love our children enough not to expel them from our world… nor to ...READ»
This week, Linda Tischler has revealed the ins and outs of Stanford's new d.school building. We asked the students to provide some insight on their new digs as well.READ»
School hallways are just as important as classrooms when it comes to learning. So why are they built like factories? Part one in Trung Le's series about designing smarter schools.READ»
Today, World Architecture News unveiled the finalists for it's Educational Building of the Year, and it's an impressive lot, designed to solve real problems. Here's a round-up of the six competitors:
The Australian Technical ...READ»
A grade school in Sweden had a problem: Their "playground" was really nothing more than a vast flat slab of asphalt--better suited to prison inmates pumping iron than kids lollygagging and playing tag. They wanted a ...READ»
