The Centre for School Design launch

70 people attended Monday’s launch of The Centre for School Design at 1 London Bridge.

The speakers included Baroness Estelle Morris, Stephen Bayley and Steve Moore as well as introductions from myself and my colleague, Ty Goddard. We also got hold of a few key people to share their views on video.

Tweet highlights from the night include:

Your tweets:

For completeness, our own tweets at the time included these:

  • Estelle Morris “really important that when we finish a project that the information that we pick up doesn’t go nowhere’
  • Stephen Bayley – schools are ‘a memory palace’ – imagine if Harry Potter had been set in a modern school?
  • Bayley: ‘very little formalised thinking about school design’ – classic school boards built to a cost rather than a principle
  • Stephen Bayley – talking about Dotheboys Hall http://www.historyhome.co.uk/readings/dotheboy.htm
  • Bayley: “Most schools architects think current govt approach is wrong”
  • Bayley quoting ‘Everything that is bad is good for you’ http://tinyurl.com/yhng2u8
  • Bayley: “great architecture needs great clients” and “God first made idiots as practice before he made school boards” ;-)
  • @stevemoore4good “shift in focus from schools to understanding what a great teachers is.” (quoting ‘great teacher’ article-Atlantic Monthly)
  • Ty Goddard: “Schools are getting more right than ever before and it’s widely acknowledged that school design matters”
  • Ty Goddard: “Welsh approach to schools capital investment is exciting – England could learn from them.”
  • Ty Goddard: “Key thing is to funnel everyone’s ideas into the next govt – whoever it is.”

Thanks to everyone who came along – we look forward to involving as many people as possible in the new project – but in the meantime, please follow us on Twitter and join the LinkedIn group?

Related posts:

  1. Why we established The Centre for School Design
  2. New ‘post bureaucratic age’ think tank puts school design centre stage

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