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A must visit website
Century of the Child: Growing by Design, 1900-2000 is an exhibition and interactive website that looks at the modern child through design. The Website's homepage is organized into seven sections or...
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It might not be relevant to the architecture of early childhood. But it is great. The hilarious kiwi duo Flight of the Conchords succeed in bringing together the ideas of children to create a...
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Learning by doing
The quote for this week (seen right) is one from the famous progressive educationalist John Dewey (1859-1952). It goes:“Before the child goes to school, he learns with his hand, eye and ear, because...
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It takes a community to look after a child
A great initiative, Buddy Day that was run in Hamilton on the 16th of November reminds us all that 'it takes a community to look after a child' - raising awareness and initiating conversations about...
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Architect David Businelli strives to "pay attention to the visual horizon of...
Writing about Studio 16's St Clare's Parish Child Care Center (below), David Businelli of Studio 16 recently got in touch with me.Remarking on the number of facilities that are supposedly designed...
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Hospital art injects a bit of life into sterile hospital spaces
It is great to witness the long overdue recognition of the role that art, design and architecture can play in forming positive spatial experiences in spaces that otherwise can be marked with...
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Svet vmes = utilising the spaces in-between
I love the philosophy behind svet vmes, a young architectural practice that transform poorly designed educational and working environments; thus utilising the spaces in-between.I have selected a few...
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Innovative educational concepts must be coupled with designs that are...
An excellent introduction (above) to Detail's latest issue DETAIL Concept 3/2013 which focuses on the architecture for children. Exploring pedagogy, architectural typologies and contemporary...
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Help Norman Brosterman republish 'Inventing Kindergarten'
Norman Brosterman's book 'Inventing Kindergarten' was a key source and inspiration for me when writing 'The Architecture of Early Childhood'. And now he needs our help.See his video (above) and go to...
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A surving relic of the 1900s progressives: Preshill School
Founded in Melbourne, Australia in the early 1930s, the privately run Preshill - The Margaret Lyttle Memorial School is a surviving experiment in progressive education.The school started as a small...
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A Reggio inspired centre in Australia considers the experiences of the child...
Designed by Towill Design Group, Reggio-inspired Brisbane-based St Pauls Kindergarten derives out of the centres' ethos that celebrates the child and his or hers thoughts, ideas and way of perceiving...
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Planting ideas, growing minds - is the idea behind toy brand "seedling"
The ethos behind NZ-owned and based toy company Seedling reflects the Kindergarten pedagogy that children learn through "play" or by partaking in creative activity. Alternatively, founder and owner...
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Interactive Skin - a wall installation that invites imaginative play
The best thing about the internet is connecting with like-minded and inspirational people.Bree Angela (designer and fabric artist) recently got in touch with me and kindly shared her latest...
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A book that promotes a new (fun) way of learning for all ages
'Learn for Life: New Architecture for New Learning' is a colourful new book featuring a range of architecture that exhibits the new wave of educational and working environments embracing...
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A revitalised school and nursery is integrated with a public sports arena and...
When a design for a new sports arena using an old war bunker was deduced insufficient in size, the hunt for a new site began. This led to the idea to integrate the new sports arena with the redesign...
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A kids drawing of their dream school is made into reality as a "soaring ark"
The'Rainbow Ark Soaring in the Sky' school designed by Japanese architect Kikuma Watanabe was brought to fruition to alleviate poverty in the Sangkhlaburi Village in Thailand.Due to a desire to a...
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A new facility in New Haven embodies the principle of the environment as a...
The new Friends Center for Children building designed by Patriquin Architects has been occupied now for four months, and the administrators, teachers, parents and children could not be more happy....
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A centre in Colombia's Medellin sows a seed for improved education and...
The Carpinelo Kindergarten is one of a number of new educational facilities "mushrooming" in the poor Colombian city of Medellin - a city that suffers inequity, war, drugs, trafficking and ecological...
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