School Work: Innovative Designs for Education

BORTOLOTTO Vitrium, University of Toronto, 2007.
CS&P Architects, Community Hebrew Academy of Toronto. Photo: Tom Arban.
CS&P Architects, Sheridan College Learning Commons. Photo: Tom Arban.
 Workshop Architecture Inc. Princess Elizabeth Public School kindergarten addition, 2012. Brantford, Ontario. Photo: Scott Norsworthy.
Organization: 
Harbourfront Centre
Exhibition Dates: 
Sep. 21, 2013 to Dec. 29, 2013

 

Shouldn’t the time we spend in the classroom be the most engaging and productive we experience?
As we renovate, add to and build new schools, how can we make spaces that assist in developing creative and healthy individuals for future success?
How can architecture support innovations and changes in teaching and learning methods for the next 50 years?

The standard classroom—with students sitting at a desk, facing a teacher, in a nondescript rectangular room, in a nondescript rectangular building—is a model that emerged from the industrial era. For some of us, it hasn’t been the best environment for learning, with a lot of time spent looking out of the window waiting for the bell to ring. As most of our country’s school buildings are 50 years old, they reflect an era that needed to produce workers who would listen and conform.

This exhibition will seek creative design alternatives for the enrichment of the learning experience through new designs for responsive learning spaces; design ideas that look beyond the traditional classroom model and create new paradigms for how we gather and share knowledge. These new design proposals will take into consideration advancements in teaching practices and educational technologies to create an enriched learning environment that will be responsive to the needs of individual communities. SCHOOL WORK looks at how students and teachers use classrooms and schools now, and how to design spaces that can become educational tools for the future through inspired design.

The exhibition features work from BORTOLOTTO, CS&P Architects Inc. and Workshop Architecture Inc.
It also features work by visual artists Tara Cooper and Terry O'Neill.  

Address: 
235 Queens Quay West
Toronto,, ON M5J 2G8
Canada
Posted by Mila.Volpe on September 17, 2013 - 2:37pm