Wednesday, 12 March 2008

collaborative session between students and children


the last collaborative session/ the point where children educate adults/ there is no need for education to educate/ proof!/ an attempt to create user lead architecture/ a block game and a collage as an intrigue/ an agenda of questions/ all answered/ not clearly/ children have a special way to give answers/ they just propose their reality/ one that everybody should learn of

3 comments:

.perikles said...

I was impressed by the fact that there were children unwilling to change the appearance of their school. What made them disagree with the prospect of transforming/improving its current state?

I think you should further analyse what are the things they like, thus preferring it the way it is today, or what is triggering their fear for changes.

P.S. I'll try not to delete this one :)

georgios said...

there is a very good reason for that/ their school is one of the few stable things they have in their life/ stability is absent from there homes/ and families/ in school, they socialize in a way they don't at home/ i think they are afraid that if the school changes, the relationship they have with it will change too.

my proposition is to maintain the main building of the school and gradually transform it starting from one or two central points/ it is an ongoing project/ the way it is conceived/ another option is to create parasite schemes that will slowly dominate the site and start breaking out to Barton as well.

your comment was not only useful but accurate/ as always

.perikles said...

You have a very good point there, stability is definitely an important issue in a child's life.

I couldn't figure that out myself; I guess I've always been one of the lucky ones who grew up in a stable environment and one of those children who had a constant wish to change the world.

“Give me a place to stand and I’ll move the world”: stability is what makes changeableness possible. Makes much more sense now...