School Works in the United Kingdom: A New Approach to Local School Design

Grace Comely

No 2002/7, PEB Exchange, Programme on Educational Building from OECD Publishing

Abstract: School Works, a not-for-profit company in the United Kingdom, has developed a secondary school design process which enables communities to create unique school buildings that cater for their own particular needs. At the heart of this process is the basic principle that it is the people who work and learn in a school building every day who really understand its ethos, its needs, its strengths and its weaknesses, and that truly involving the school community will generate an innate sense of ownership and respect for the buildings. School Works has put its participatory process into practice at an inner-city school in London.

Keywords: community; design; Kingsdale Secondary School; United Kingdom (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002-06-01
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