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Below are an initial selection of some articles/ resources we have produced. We hope to add to these as we expand our website.

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
For full contents of this issue of Forum, and subscription details click here

Our initial research report on Creative Space is available to download