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Current ThinkingresourcesBelow are a selection of some articles/ resources we have produced or contributed to. We will add to these as we expand our website. Workspace and Culture Change is a short think piece about how we can use exploration and redesign of workspace to support organisational culture change. ‘Everyone should read this report’ – Paul Collard, Chief Executive of Creativity, Culture and Education. The Bloom Room is a report of a fantastic project with children excluded from mainstream schools. The project was led by artist, musician and poet Dave Stickman Higgins, with creative therapist Berni McBreen and educationalist Sarah Bartholomew. We helped to set up the project and worked with the practitioners on researching and writing the learning history around which the report is based. The project and publication were supported and funded by Nottinghamshire County Council, Arts Council England, Arts Partnership Nottinghamshire and Opun. Learning History: Yeoman Park Special School, November 2011 Nottingham City BSF: Bigwood School. Click here for our interactive presentation to the CABE BSF Workshops in January 2009. It shows the process for the Bigwood School and Enterprise College in Nottingham, from early visioning and whole school engagement, through the bid process, the appointment of the LEP, Inspired Spaces, and their architects, Capita Architecture, to the final design and works on site. Click here for our interactive presentation to the CSBN Creating Excellent Primary Schools conference at the RIBA in November 2009. It shows the process for the Southwark Primary School in Nottingham, from early visioning and whole school engagement through to the design brief, to working with the LEP (Inspired Spaces) and their architects (Capita Architecture) to design and build the project. A recent article for Forum magazine, ‘Setting the Hares Running’, reflects on our experiences of the Building Schools for the Future programme as a learning and change process (rather than simply a building programme), using the conceptual framework of ‘living systems’. It explores the implications of this, both for the shape of the BSF process, and for the design of schools with the potential to transform learning click here to download Our initial research report on Creative Space is available to download Reflections on Spatial Agency: Other Ways of Doing ArchitectureA response to and reflection on the book Spatial Agency: Other Ways of Doing Architecture in the context of our work and practice in... Keep Reading... Rethinking workspaceIn the current difficult and uncertain climate, all public sector, third sector and voluntary organisations are facing major challenges: organisationally, as they try to make sense and orientate... Keep Reading... Holding the Space for Learning in Difficult TimesThe recent snowy weather in the UK has stopped many of us in our tracks – doing simple things like getting out of the street to go to the shops or take the children to school suddenly became... Keep Reading... Presencing and Theory UI have recently been part of a ‘global classroom’ of 200 people from around the world who came together weekly on-line over a month to study with Otto Scharmer of Rethinking learning-spaceWe are in the process of thinking and reflecting on our work and what we can offer, in response to the rapidly changing environment with the Con-Dem coalition government and the recent... Keep Reading... Local Authority property and emergent platformsReading Steven Johnson’s fascinating book Where Good Ideas Come From, and a conversation over lunch with a manager from a community trust organisation have really got me... Keep Reading... Conferences and EventsThe innovative approach that we and the Nottingham BSF team have been taking to engaging school communities through the BSF process is... Keep Reading... Article on our 'radical visioning' process in the Independent newspaperOn the 29th January, an article in the Independent newspaper featured our work with Nottingham City Council BSF team on the visioning process ( |
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