by Peter Lippman | Dec 21, 2016 | 21st century learning, evidence based design, learning environment design, learning spaces, teaching
My journey for understanding the transactional relationship between the learner and the learning environment began when I walked into a first and second grade public school as a teacher’s assistant in East Harlem, New York City. This classroom was different from...
by Peter Lippman | Dec 21, 2016 | 21st century learning, learning environment design, learning spaces, teaching
No matter where I travel, the people I come in contact with are always talking about pedagogy, educational policy, and the design of learning environments. These discussions veer to looking at the inside out rather that from the outside in. These views also recognise...
by Peter Lippman | Dec 20, 2016 | 21st century learning, evidence based design, learning environment design, learning spaces, teaching
A few years ago, on my first visit to Australia, I attended a conference on the spatial design of learning environments. During one of the presentations on new generation learning spaces, a teacher asked the presenter who had just shown their case study on a classroom...
by Peter Lippman | Nov 30, 2016 | 21st century learning, evidence based design, learning environment design, learning spaces, teaching
In 2003, I interviewed Herman Hertzberger, an architect from the Netherlands, for an article I was writing. I was very much interested in his perspective on school design; for he understood that classrooms should offer a variety of activity settings to support the...
Recent Comments