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17 November 2011 | John Mitchell

Below 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
Beyond the sum of its parts: organic growth and classroom design in a special school environment is a ‘learning history’ (see here for more about learning histories) reflecting on the learning from the process and outcomes of the development of the remodelled hall and media learning environment at the Yeoman Park Special School

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

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