DS Architects Announces Exciting New Project: Haileybury’s First Vertical Inner-City School in Melbourne
In a remarkable journey since its conversion from an ex-commercial building seven years ago, Haileybury, which was first established in the 1890s and has multiple campuses, founded Melbourne’s first vertical inner-city school, which stands as a resounding success story. DS Architects is thrilled to announce our latest endeavour in partnership with Haileybury. We have been […]
How Virtual Reality can enhance learning – The IT Research Lab @ Monash University, Melbourne
This video is about a new facility at Monash University that would make for an intriguing and exciting addition to the more typical classrooms and teaching spaces in primary and secondary schools. It was designed for the IT department and is a Virtual Reality (VR) facility that is used to research how VR may improve our understanding and […]
Enhancing Learning Through Creativity and Collaboration – The Learning Lab @ The University of Melbourne
We made this video to share with you how working collaboratively as a design team with the project stakeholders and thinking creatively about how to deal with obstacles, can result in an innovative learning facility. Here are some of the key ideas: Does your teaching space need a front of house (FoH). Classrooms do not […]
Enhancing Learning – Next Generation Learning Spaces at Monash University, Melbourne
We made this video for sharing some of the great ideas Monash University is implementing in its next generation of learning spaces. Here are some of the key ideas: The amount of space needed for an effective collaborative learning space. How technology helps make classrooms flexible. A variety of furniture and seating arrangements give students a choice […]
Why Being Curious Makes for Better Designs
Several topics have been occupying my mind in 2021. The leader of a legal firm having to step down for sending a letter to staff that challenged the status quo. Victoria University writing a compelling RFT about the type of people they want to work with. A transgender person kicked out of female toilets in a […]
Why Designing for Potential Makes for Better Classrooms
In this post, I identified the teacher as the essential ingredient in creating a great classroom. I think the next one is ‘potential’ – when designing a learning space, imagine entering it for the first time and thinking ‘am I inspired to learn here?’ Flexible use and class sizes of a typical classroom can compete […]
Why Architects Must Remember to Design Spaces for People to Use
This article https://lnkd.in/gP58unk talks about the amazing things being done to combine Information technology and building materials to enhance the experience of entering a building. It reminded me of a passage in the 1943 book ‘The Fountainhead’ by Ayn Rand; a book that is a bit of a rite of passage for architects to read. “The intrinsic […]
ds Commits to Innovating
I think quite a few people grew up thinking of innovators as heroes – a lone person coming up with a brilliant idea that changes everything. Think Steve Jobs. Think Marie Curie. Or maybe even ‘Doc’ Brown in Back to the Future. Who wouldn’t want to be that person? A few weeks ago I read […]
Blended Learning Has Not Realized Its Potential
There is much talk about applying lessons learnt during the Covid-19 shutdown to how we play, work and learn. So why did some schools tell parent they would stop providing remote learning and only provide on site learning when school resumed? Why, when some children may learn better remotely, is this no longer provided? Why, […]
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