Chris Menage & Lara Mackintosh
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A collaborative agency in influencing design project between Tertiary architectural undergraduates and secondary school students
Designing learning spaces
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Australia
Secondary school students immersed in an interdisciplinary unit of work across traditional subject areas - Humanities (Geography, Sustainability & Urban Planning), Mathematics (volume, mass etc), Design & Technology (design thinking & prototype models), Science (Sustainability & Earth Sciences) - collaborated in person & across virtual platforms to deliver recommendations on school design.
Community, Cross-Sector Partnerships, Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Integration, Experiential Learning, Interdisciplinary, Learning Community, Multidisciplinary Learning, Pedagogical Innovation, pedagogical leadership, Project Based Learning, Real World Learning, Whole Child, Whole School Approach
“Community is not something you have, like pizza...It’s a living organism ...a web of interdependencies...expressing itself physically as connectedness..." J. Howard Kunstler, The Geography of Nowhere
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October 7th, 2020
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297
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1
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2012
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Not-for-profit
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July 11th, 2021
about the innovation
Transformative learning through real world collaboration
What we do? Immerse students into practical real world contexts where they interact with external experts as the vehicle to learn abstract theoretical concepts.
Why we do it? Both student engagement and teacher satisfaction increase exponentially when agency is unleashed.
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October 2020
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