Thanks Olga.
Interestingly, we mostly unlearn and rethink. Our students often have a first degree in architecture and are well versed in considering style, aesthetics, function and increasingly also culture & climate. But when it comes to human experience, social relations and use, there's a gap

We also heard the latest thinking on new developments in workplace design and place making - are offices now obsolete? How to make hybrid work? Why are some settings never used? How do third spaces interact with the city? How to spread research knowledge in practice?

#ArchitecturalResearch

In our session today, we discussed office buildings together with my long-term collaborator, friend and ex-colleague Rosie Haslem
Another brilliant and engaging session on architectural research in practice, differences between academic and practice-led research as well as various research tools

Spatial layouts provide material conditions for all of those needs and constraints and shape not only pedagogy and how students learn but also how communities form, who meets who, how power asserts itself through surveillance and how people feel about their schooling

We learnt that school buildings differ not only by climate (warm countries have more exterior spaces) but also by culture (gender separation in Saudi Arabia), size (from 100s to 1000s of students), schedules (all day needs canteens) and by pedagogy (high discipline context in Kazakhstan for example)

Last week, we discussed school buildings. Students made a sketch (from memory) of the secondary school they attended.
So many great examples from all over the world - from a small school in Chile boasting a slide from classrooms to playground all the way to a large Silicon Valley campus

Totally sympathise - I know that feeling
Just saying that I love the painting as it is 💛

This is so cool! 💃🏻🪩

#FotoVorschlag 'Texturen'

Beautiful photo! 💙
I've seen a kingfisher in North London on the New River canal last year - it was truly magical. Sadly I've only got a mobile phone shot

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Thank you 😊

Toll, freu mich!
In Utrecht bin ich auch schon Fahrrad gefahren (während eines Konferenzbesuchs). Ebenso in Beijing (für Teil zwei des Films außerhalb von Europa? 😉)

Inkheart by Cornelia Funke is gorgeous and has three further books in the series (that do get a bit darker one by one). We've read all four with an 11yo