The document discusses the future design of schools and proposes that schools should be designed in ways that can adapt to an unpredictable future. It provides examples of innovative school designs, such as outdoor classrooms, green spaces indoors, flexible furniture, and buildings incorporated into nature, to demonstrate how schools could be designed. The goal is to create schools that prepare students for an uncertain tomorrow through creative and adaptable learning environments.
1. There's a dark little joke exchanged by educators with a dissident streak:
2. Rip Van Winkle awakens in the 21st century after a hundred-year snooze and is, of course, utterly bewildered by what he sees.
3. Men and women dash about, talking to small metal devices pinned to their ears. Young people sit at home on sofas, moving miniature athletes around on electronic screens.
4. Older folk defy death and disability with metronomes in their chests and with hips made of metal and plastic. Airports, hospitals, shopping malls--every place Rip goes just baffles him.
5. But when he finally walks into a schoolroom, the old man knows exactly where he is. "This is a school," he declares. "We used to have these back in 1907. Only now the blackboards are white."
55. reception desks? School: Keane Children’s Center/Charlestown Boys & Girls Club Charlestown, Massachusetts Image: DesignShare.com
56. buildings as educational tools? School: Warren Skaaren Environmental Learning Center at Westcave Preserve Dripping Springs, Texas Image: DesignShare.com