THE EDGELESS SCHOOL: DESIGN FOR LEARNING
What do you remember most from school: a favorite teacher, a great book, a singular moment of discovery? And what is the setting of that memory: a classroom with desks in rows facing a blackboard; a theater like auditorium; a cavernous gym? Perhaps you went to an elementary school or a high school housed in an imposing structure that used traditional architecture to exude a sense of civic authority. If you were born during or after the postwar baby boom, attending school in an era of ambitious construction and equally ambitious revolutions in pedagogy, you may have gone to a school in a new building with classrooms full of desks in clusters rather than rows, and maybe even multilevel, irregularly shaped “open classrooms.”
The U.S. Green Building Council Maryland Chapter (USGBC MD) in collaboration with numerous partners (listed below) brings THE EDGELESS SCHOOL: Design for Learning to Gallery CA in Station North Arts and Entertainment District. This exhibit on school design inspires us to imagine what our schools can be like and how we can best address developments in education, culture, society and healthy learning environments. It challenges us to see how our own communities can benefit from improved schools facilities. Case studies of healthy and high performance schools recently constructed throughout the country highlight innovation in learning environments. Multi-media components of the exhibit share K-12 educational philosophy of the past present and new directions.
THE EDGELESS SCHOOL Partners and Sponsors:
AIA NYC
AIA Baltimore
Transform Baltimore
Child First Authority
ACLU Education Reform Project
Neighborhood Design Center
The Abell Foundation
Baltimore Community Foundation
Baltimore Office of Sustainability
Corporate Office Properties Trust
Perkins Eastman
Whiting Turner
Grimm + Parker
Free Fall Baltimore
Valspar
