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Posted on 12 May 2008 at 03:41
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Posted on 20 March 2008 at 15:31
I would like to introduce myself as and avid fan of the fundamentals within your article and in favour that it does not matter how a school looks, it's about ensuring that the space is sensitive to the users and that it works for them! I have worked as a manager for the Play, Learning and Childcare side of Sure Start Local Programmes and also the Children's Centre's for many years and seen vast amounts of capital wasted on NEW buildings that don't meet the user’s needs. With my background experience being mainly in Childcare and Playwork I am a great believer in ensuring that everything is "child centred" and that we clearly understand how and why children interact with different environments and spaces. Using participatory methods, consultation and observation correctly can help to inform the design, the Reggio approach is another favourite philosophy of mine. The Chancellor of the Exchequer announced significant extra resources: £150 million in 2008 – 09 and £500 million in 2009 – 10 adding this extra funding to existing capital investment, and planning strategically over a long term period. The government has tasked local authorities and local people to create the schools that they need for the future. I am looking at what research has been carried out in relation to this and whether the plans are well thought out in terms of how a child interacts with the different environments; therefore identifying whether or not the proposed consultation and building designs are meeting the needs of children and the end users. I am particularly interested in exploring the “building space" and its contribution to the child as a whole; thus exploring how children interact within differing environments to determine how a building could be designed. I want to look at key behaviours demonstrated by children, exploring how spatial awareness, the emotional state of children and other behaviours can affect the way in which a child interacts with the space and how these behaviours need to be recorded in such a way that they become fundamental in the design plans for any building that is used by children especially those used for Play, Learning and Education. I work for Salford University as a Project Manager and currently have a great opportunity to explore this further. Being at the heart of this work I thought it would be interesting to look at building design for children as I work within an Enterprise Centre hosted by the University of Salford (The Centre for Construction Innovation). The Centre for Construction Innovation was formed in 1999 to further the growth of knowledge capital within the construction sector. Through the development of the ‘Rethinking Construction’ agenda CCI has become a key provider of advisory and grant aided services to the construction sector. CCI is also the Best Practice hub of the North West Development Agency Construction Cluster, Constructing Excellence in the North West and allied to the Centre for Procurement Excellence based in Tameside.
Posted on 19 March 2008 at 10:12
We'd like your comments and reactions to Ty's article in the Guardian on Tuesday 18th March. Click below to link to it http://education.guardian.co.uk/egweekly/story/0,,2266105,00.html
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