Taking the role of architects and researchers very often we have to present the design/research steps made along the way, or summarise the findings in a succinct, clear, but visually captivating manner. This is where visual displays of data could be very useful. Taking research by design approach during my PhD, and running my NGO ARQubator, I had to produce many visual data display. Some of them I am posting here, while the largest majority of others could be found in my PhD thesis.
Comprehensive framework of sustainability issues to which contemporary school design should respond to
The graph summarises the results of a literature review on social, environmental, and economic sustainability issues to which contemporary school design should respond to.
Safety and security as a part of sustainable school design issues.
Mapping architects`, teachers`, and pupils’ answers after participatory post occupancy exploration of their schools, in order to understand how space is designed around sustainability issues and how it can impact on learning process.
Negotiating the project support: Contacts made along the way
Wishing to implement the findings of my PhD research, I have joined forces with ARQubator, and tried to contact as many as possible important people and institutions in Serbia. The most important ones are mapped here on a timeline.
Learning form experiencing the sustainable school environment: Important steps on the way
My research findings confirmed what some other researchers have been claiming: experiencing space could be profoundly pedagogical! Building on evidence from my research, and existing literature on the matter, I tried to propose what the most important steps on the way could be, or in other words, how do we learn through experiencing spaces.
Learning form experiencing the sustainable school environment: Deriving meanings, identity and attachment
Experiencing sustainable school space does not present just a learning process. Interacting with physical, social, and afterwards symbolic and imaginary features of a space we derive important meanings, construct and cultivate identity on several levels: personal, group, school, and community, and develop place attachment. The graph explains this process using Erika Mann Primary School form Berlin, Germany.
Demographic changes and development of Stara Pazova through history
Sustainability HotSpots - Primary School Fort Pienc, Barcelona, Spain
The Sustainability HotSpots Map presents an analysis of teachers’ and pupils’ positive and negative comments, recommendations for improvements, and photos; made by them in order to support their comments. The main aim of the map is to make the comments and photos location specific.
