Adapting a building to be a learning aid

Image source: VINYÃS

Overview

This educational infrastructure program transforms the architectural elements of schools into assets for playful learning resources. The intervention increases the opportunities of learning though built environment resources, improving pupil and teacher motivation and engagement with the learning environment.

Location:
India

Organisation:
VINYÃS Centre for Architectural Research & Design

Partner organisations:
UNICEF

Beneficiary:
Students, Caregivers

Scale of proximity:
Neighbourhood

Built environment component:
Public space, Street

Design insights

Spatial/physical:
Ordinary elements of infrastructures (i.e., school buildings, windows, doors and stairs) can be given a second stimulation or educational purpose.

Visual/aesthetic:
A balance between spaces being loaded with stimuli yet not oversaturated.

Process:
Flexible, open-ended design approach allows for easy replication in other schools and scaling up.

Technology:
Low tech approach with low-cost interventions on already existing educational infrastructures can achieve the desired impact.

Implementation insights

Targeting the needs and demands of both students and teachers makes the same intervention design twice as effective.

Piloting and later getting support from governments and international agencies, can contribute to an effective scale up process.

Links:

https://publicadministration.un.org/unpsa/Portals/0/UNPSA_Submitted_Docs/2018/2C34C593-52D6-415C-B05B-253941E37D0F/BRIEF%20NOTE%20ON%20BaLA.pdf?ver=1439-06-10-091520-517

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