BlogAnd it is not only school architects/planners getting into the ‘YouTube for school design’ game, thanks to this image/imagine video put out recently by a public middle school teacher in Oregon — and ESL Technology blogger — who wanted to help his colleagues daydream about new possibilities for learning environments.
Matt Horne used a wide range of DesignShare Award-winning project images to help fuel the eye’s wonderings. And while this is only one way to spark a new series of questions, it does show the potential. Wonderful that teachers and clients are taking it upon themselves to create such tools, too!
Imagine if 1000’s of such videos — by students, teachers, designers, and other stakeholders — begin to hit the YouTube (and beyond) universe, all geared to showing the gap between our ideals for learning and what most ’schools’ look like (even the very expensive ‘new’ ones that pledge to be 21st century campuses — oy!). What would happen? Especially if these video stories/questions can be used in concert with each other to help community members, design/planning partners, foundations, and even national governments embrace new questions to inspired designs truly centered on the future of learning.
One video and school design project that does this brilliantly on all levels? which we’ve mentioned it before, but a perfect time to re-tip the hat towards the Klipp Architecture team who designed the award-winning Denver School of Science and Technology (DSST), and this video put out by the American Architectural Foundation who sponsors the "Great Schools By Design" initiatives. See the shortened version below (but you can order/save the full video by following the link here). Oh, and as much as the architecture itself beautifully stands out, the way the kids/teachers ‘own’ the building and describe it in powerful terms is what is most impressive…and instructive to all of us:
N0te: an upcoming interview with DSST designer, Sam Miller, from Klipp Architecture will be published in the coming weeks here at DesignShare.
