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Briefing note on our Schools Programme and contact details.
Smarter Places
Learn more about our work across the learning estate and our collaboration with local authorities to regenerate spaces for learning, by design.
Our Lady of the Missions Pupils “hack” their way to better learning spaces…
A group of students from Our Lady of The Missions used our Tests of Change process to hack their learning space and got to build their own furniture!
OUR APPROACH: Providing Advice
One of our key areas of work is to provide advice on design - A&DS supports investment in homes and public buildings, and everything in between.
OUR APPROACH: Promoting the value of design
We work with partners to ensure that design becomes central to how we plan our places - to demonstrate the value of design.
OUR APPROACH: Sharing Learning to Build Capacity
Learning: A&DS offers a number of ways to share good practice, build connections and support and develop confidence in new ways to approach things.
OUR WORK: Empowering Communities
A&DS supports communities, providing advice and support and we promote the benefits of community engagement and share examples of good work.
OUR WORK: Creating well-designed schools, hospitals and public buildings
We are committed to helping those who fund, design and use our public buildings. A&DS does this by providing advice, supporting client and user groups
OUR WORK: Improving the design quality of infrastructure and public space
One of our priorities is to improve the design quality of our public spaces and infrastructure to support wellbeing.
OUR WORK: Delivering More and Better Homes
A&DS has made the delivery of more and better homes a priority - supporting inclusive growth through more and better housing.
SERVICE: Tests of Change – facilitating improvement in the learning estate
The Tests of Change project aims to create excellent teaching and learning environments using Space Hacks and testing solutions in a learning space.
SERVICE: Design Advice for Schools
A&DS offers a design support to education authorities offering an external view, peer support, facilitation and learning networks.