School Design: Be the Change...

There's a dark little joke exchanged by educators with a dissident streak:
Rip Van Winkle awakens in the 21st century after a hundred-year snooze and is, of course, utterly bewildered by what he sees.
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.
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.
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."
Milton-Freewater, let’s have a discussion about the future of our schools…
How can we design schools for a future that we can’t possibly predict?  Image: MattandBekah.com
media centers? School: Cass Technical High School,  Detroit Image: DesignShare.com
music rooms? School: Celentano Museum Academy, New Haven, Connecticut Image: DesignShare.com
social areas? School: High Tech High International, San Diego, California Image: DesignShare.com
outdoor classrooms? School: Three Mile Creek Elementary, Perry, Utah Image: DesignShare.com
open ceilings? School: Celentano Museum Academy,  New Haven, Connecticut Image: DesignShare.com
green spaces indoors? School: Universidad de Monterrey: Preparatoia Unidad Valle Alto, Monterrey, N.L., Mexico Image: DesignShare.com
creative architecture? School: Georgetown South Child  Development and Community Center, Manassas, Virginia Image: DesignShare.com
early childhood education? School: Georgetown South Child Development and Community Center, Manassas, Virginia Image: DesignShare.com
no chairs? Image: DesignShare.com
auditoriums? School: New Saline High School, Saline Michigan Image: DesignShare.com
colors? School: Stittsville Public School,  Stittsville, Ontario, Canada Image: DesignShare.com
computer labs? School: Estrella Mountain Community College, Avondale, Arizona Image: DesignShare.com
balconies? School: Gwinnett University Center,  Lawrencevilla, Georgia Image: DesignShare.com
display cases? School: Kennewick Elementary School Kennebunk, Maine Image: DesignShare.com
cave seating? School: St. Stephen’s School, Algester, Queensland, Australia Image: DesignShare.com
round buildings? School: Gwinnett University Center, Lawrenceville, Georgia Image: DesignShare.com
facilities open to the public? School: Little Village Lawndale High School, Chicago Image: DesignShare.com
galleries for student work? School: Galef Center for Fine Arts Los Angeles, California Image: DesignShare.com
flexible furniture? School: Estrella Mountain Community College, Avondale, Arizona Image: DesignShare.com
small group meeting spaces? School: Cary Grove High School, Cary, Illinois Image: DesignShare.com
hallways as classroom spaces? School: Pistorius-Schule,  Herbrechtingen, Germany Image: DesignShare.com
buildings on a hill? School: Hachoresch Elementary School,  Zirchron Ya’acov, Israel Image: DesignShare.com
learning centers? School: Three Mile Creek Elementary, Perry, Utah Image: DesignShare.com
lobbies? School: West Haven Elementary School, West Haven, Utah Image: DesignShare.com
multipurpose rooms? School: West Haven Elementary School, West Haven, Utah Image: DesignShare.com
alternative sports? School: Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School Image: DesignShare.com
courtyards? School: La Cañada High School, California Image: DesignShare.com
non-traditional angles? School: Perspectives Charter School, Chicago Image: DesignShare.com
glass walls? School: Nus High School of Mathematics and Science, Singapore Image: DesignShare.com
outdoor study areas? School: Chung Cheng High School, Singapore Image: DesignShare.com
modern playgrounds? School: Suzhou Singapore International School, Suzhou, China Image: DesignShare.com
rooftops? School: Gwinnett University Center, Georgia Image: DesignShare.com
production studios? School: Cambridge Media Arts School, Cambridge, Massachutsetts Image: DesignShare.com
collaboration areas? School: Alpine Prototype Middle School, Alpine/Lehi, Utah Image: DesignShare.com
skylights? School: Reim Elementary School, Israel Image: DesignShare.com
faculty work areas? School: Estrella Mountain Community College, Avondale, Arizona Image: DesignShare.com
classrooms on wheels? Image: DesignShare.com
exposed architecture? School: Pistorius-Schule,  Herbrechtingen, Germany Image: DesignShare.com
greenhouses? School: IslandWood: A School in the Woods Bainbridge Island, Washington Image: DesignShare.com
incorporating old growth? School: Paschalisschool, The Hague, Netherlands Image: DesignShare.com
indoor play structures? School: Spruce Street Nursery School, Boston Image: DesignShare.com
cultural learning spaces? School: Bronx Charter School for the Arts Image: DesignShare.com
life-skills areas? School: Spruce Street Nursery School, Boston Image: DesignShare.com
fitness  centers? School: Cass Technical High School,  Detroit Image: DesignShare.com
outdoor amphitheaters? School: Nan Hua Secondary School Singapore Image: DesignShare.com
playgrounds as learning tools? School: PS 40 M and PS 33 M, Long Island City, New York Image: DesignShare.com
reading rooms? School: PS1/Bergen School, New York, New York Image: DesignShare.com
reception desks? School: Keane Children’s Center/Charlestown Boys & Girls Club Charlestown, Massachusetts Image: DesignShare.com
buildings as educational tools? School: Warren Skaaren Environmental Learning Center at Westcave Preserve Dripping Springs, Texas Image: DesignShare.com
science labs? School: Romeo Engineering & Technology Center Romeo, Michigan Image: DesignShare.com
solar panels? School: Heritage Middle School, Wake Forest, North Carolina Image: DesignShare.com
sports fields? School: Oakwell Park, Napoleon, Ohio Image: NapoleonOhio.cc
technology in the hallways? School: Hackberry Elementary School, Frisco, Texas Image: DesignShare.com
activity spaces? School: PS1/Bergen School, New York, New York Image: DesignShare.com
ecology areas? School: Missouri Dept of Conservation Discovery Center Kansas City, Missouri Image: DesignShare.com
conference rooms? School: High Tech High International, San Diego, California Image: DesignShare.com
“ We must  be the change  we wish to see in the world.” -Gandhi
Pictures © DesignShare.com Music © James Horner, Braveheart Presentation Matt Horne
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