Creating Activity-Based Learning Environments

 While learning models and their underlying pedagogies continue to evolve, the spatial design concepts that are intended to support learning remain under-developed. As a result, we have schools that are not purpose-built, and nor is their design grounded in the theory of learning. A new approach is needed to turn schools intro truly effective learning spaces. 

This interactive workshop will introduce participants to the Evidence Based Design Approach. This approach connects a variety of disciplines and perspectives on learning with the design of learning spaces to produce activity-based learning environments. These environments represent a new vision, a paradigm shift in which the physical environment is the building block for learning (Lippman, 2016). Participants will learn how this new vision has been applied elsewhere, and how it may be implemented in their own learning contexts. 

This workshop marks the beginning of an exciting new collaborative project between Big Picture Education Australia, its member schools, and Peter Lippman: ‘The Big Picture Redesign: designing our schools from the inside out’. We are working to transform our schools into spaces designed to truly maximise student learning in the Big Picture context.