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An Innovative School Revisited: Leith Academy and the Projects that Followed
MacKenzie, Don - Directorate for Education, Organisation de Coopération … - 2004
’s original design, how the facilities have served over the 13 years since their construction and their influence on subsequent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963040
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A Meeting Place to Learn in Rural Iceland
Stuebing, Susan - Directorate for Education, Organisation de Coopération … - 2004
“On the day we heard that there was agreement to establish an upper secondary school in the region, every house in Snaefellsnes flew the Icelandic flag,” explained one parent in the first workshop to develop the Snaefellsnes Upper Secondary School. The new school in this rural Icelandic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963052
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The Mawson Centre: Access for all to Education Services
Trimper, Kelvin - Directorate for Education, Organisation de Coopération … - 2006
point for these services, The Mawson Centre, which opened in 2005, was designed for the community as a whole. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963084
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An International Campus in Switzerland
Directorate for Education, Organisation de Coopération …; … - 2001
The International School of Geneva has three campuses in the region of Lake Geneva and now has a total enrolment of some 3 500 pupils; more than 100 nationalities are represented. In order to prevent overcrowding on existing campuses and to meet the growing demand, the Foundation of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963108
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Design Down Process: Designing a School in Iceland with Its Users
Jilk, Bruce - Directorate for Education, Organisation de Coopération … - 2002
This is an example of an architect working with future school users in Iceland to design their school. The architect … has developed a process that he uses with students, staff and the local community to create a learning environment in … which the design intends for freedom and creativity to be integrated into the students’ daily learning experiences. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963220
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'Joinedupdesignforschools' in the United Kingdom
Directorate for Education, Organisation de Coopération …; … - 2005
Joinedupdesignforschools explores how good design can improve the quality of life in schools by listening to the voices … country’s leading design practices to provide solutions for practical improvements in schools, to highlight the benefits of a … close partnership between the design industry and schools, and to develop pupils’ life skills. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005045270
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School Works in the United Kingdom: A New Approach to Local School Design
Comely, Grace - Directorate for Education, Organisation de Coopération … - 2002
School Works, a not-for-profit company in the United Kingdom, has developed a secondary school design process which … ethos, its needs, its strengths and its weaknesses, and that truly involving the school community will generate an innate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005045287
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Albanian Model School
Kavaja, Vera - Directorate for Education, Organisation de Coopération … - 1999
the community. The long-lasting, flexible structure designed to stimulate learning is the result of a close collaboration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005045317
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The regional-local nexus: a landscape-based integral design strategy for sustainable tourism development
Borsje, Jesper; Tak, Ruud - In: Tourism and Hospitality Management 19 (2013) 1, pp. 65-82
sustainable tourism development. Design – Spatial design is used as tool to investigate the chances and possibilities of … sustainable tourism. Methodology – In the project we used research by design as method. This is done by doing a case study on the … Dubrovnik Riviera, where we tested our concepts, ideas and methods in practice. During the case study we used participation, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010962290
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What factors enable community leadership of renewable energy projects? Lessons from a woodfuel heating initiative
Rogers, Jennifer C; Simmons, Eunice A; Convery, Ian; … - In: Local Economy 27 (2012) 2, pp. 209-222
developments. Recently, however, there has been growing interest in the scope for alternative small scale and community …-led renewable energy development. This case study research from northwest England investigates the development of a community … was conceived as means of addressing multiple threats to the sustainability of their rural community. Participantsâ …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009654018