Shaping the Future of Education
Our passion for education architecture has seen our design team take an active interest in challenging and improving traditional teaching spaces. This has led to us re-thinking the way the education setting impacts on young people’s learning.
Taking our healthcare research on ‘sense sensitive design’ as a starting point, we are keen to explore the link between sensory perception of the environment on educational motivation, performance and behaviour. Our aim is to develop design tools that will help architects and education stakeholders to design their spaces more intelligently.
To achieve our goal, we are aiming to collect evidence to underpin our theory. We have developed a robust pilot research project on ‘education sensory perception’. This commenced with a literature review and the compilation of an optimal learning conditions database by educationalists, psychologists and environmental engineers.
In partnership with Higher Education Institutions, the British Council for School Environments and industry specialists, our design team is now working on testing the sensory perception of pupils in a live environment. We know that pupils are best prepared to learn when they are active and alert, this research looks to see how the school environment can influence this.
Watch this space
Our team will publish the methodology and results of the research project on completion.
Help us innovate
As part of our Design Research and Innovation process, we would like to find out more about your experiences within the learning environment. This will assist us in further developing our ‘Active and Alert’ research project. We would be grateful if you could take some time to download and complete our questionnaire. Please return via email to: customerrelations@nightingaleassociates.com
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