United States : A&DS launches new school design web resource.

Byline: pinto03

Architecture and Design Scotland (A&DS) has launched Smarter Places, a new school design web resource at the architecture department of Edinburgh University.

The web resource aims to give everyone who wants to participate in school design the means to explore and share their ideas.

A spokesman for A+DS said that Smarter Places allows users to create a scrapbook of different elements of a school that they like. This scrapbook can then be shared with others in a variety of ways, giving people the opportunity to evolve and communicate their ideas about the sort of school they want to see.

Speaking before the launch, Keith Brown, minister for schools and skills, said, The Smarter Places web resource will allow all those who wish to participate in designing Scotland s future schools to now have the opportunity to explore school design and communicate their ideas. This new tool is entirely consistent with the importance that the Scottish Government has placed on good design and consultation in our School Estate Strategy Building Better Schools. He adds that by using images, videos and downloads, all those with an interest in good school design, can now access many interesting examples from schools across Scotland.

The launch of Smarter Places was hosted by the University of Edinburgh Architecture department as part of a joint event that also marks the publication of a book by Fiona McLachlan and Rachael Hallett Thinking, Teaching, Learning: Explorations in Primary School Design .

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