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Ferndale, Michigan, March 2025

#Photography #NewTopographics #SchoolBuildings #Suburbs #Detroit #Ferndale

Color photograph looking across a wide street at part of a tan brick school building on a gray day, a pair of Canada geese standing in the grass across the street in front of a strip of parking lot and a grid of rectangular windows

Color photograph looking across a wide street at a different part of the same tan brick school building on a gray day. A large face on a taller block of the building features a pair of sculpted metal eagles in flight next to the words, spelled out horizontally in metal letters, "Ferndale High School."

Two of my former PhD students, Zaky Fouad and @ChrystalaPsathiti are presenting on Tuesday at the #SpaceSyntax Symposium, as well as my current PhD student Mine Sak Acur

All three papers are on #schoolBuildings

Zaky's paper on school libraries:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cBJXQr-KEYSY4WWbdvoTaKufJOAjWkXY/view

Chrystala's paper on segregation in schools:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tSfqsLLASaFvFOkY5bWHFGgmmMgr3YnC/view

Mine's paper on a school playground and play:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ac4cgMGr5HBQBbDhxGBAZ7ZRhQyC7G9r/view

#sss14cy

Together with my brilliant collaborator @ChrystalaPsathiti, I was invited by the #WorkplaceGeeks Ian Ellison and Chris Moriarty to talk about our latest research paper on adolescent perceptions of schools in relation to their spatial layout, originally published in the Journal of Architecture and now featured in the wonderful Workplace Geeks podcast series 3.

Listen here:
https://www.audiem.io/podcasts/from-cyprus-to-hogwarts

#podcast #workplaceDesign #WorkplaceResearch #schoolBuildings #ArchitecturalResearch #SpaceSyntax

New paper alert! @ChrystalaPsathiti and I argue in our paper in the Journal of Architecture published today that adolescents' positive perceptions of school depend (among other things) on the school layout and levels of visibility from the classroom, which enables a greater sense of belonging to the school community

Full paper here:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13602365.2024.2302090

#Architecture #ArchitecturalResearch #schoolBuildings #School #perception #adolescents @sociology #SpaceSyntax

Raac: Number of schools and colleges with crumbling concrete rises by 25 per cent | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/raac-concrete-found-schools-colleges-b2432535.html

#RAAC
#Schools
#SchoolSafety
#SchoolBuildings
#Keegan
#NAHT
#NationalEducationUnion
#Phillipson
#NEU
#Wilson

This is such a cool project - analysing the #architecture of Montessori #schools in 28 recognisable patterns (reminiscent of Christopher Alexander's pattern language), featuring case studies around the globe
https://montessori-architecture.org/tool/
#schoolBuildings #ArchitecturalDesign #ArchitecturalLayout

More than half of dilapidated English schools were refused rebuilding money | Schools | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/sep/05/more-than-half-of-dilapidated-english-schools-were-refused-rebuilding-money

#SchoolBuildings
#SchoolMaintenance
#SchoolSafety
#SchoolRebuilding
#Funding
#DFE
#Neglect
#RAAC
#Keegan
#DowningStreet

Ministers knew about dodgy concrete in schools - but did nothing | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/school-closures-concrete-raac-michael-gove-b2403185.html

#RAAC
#ReinforcedAutoclavedAeratedConcret
#Concrete
#Ministers
#Tories
#UKGov
#Gove
#SchoolBuildings
#SchoolSafety
#Labour
#SinglewellPrimarySchool2018
#SchoolRebuilding
#Children

What, a school revamp once every 440 years isn’t enough? | David Mitchell | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/10/what-a-school-revamp-once-every-440-years-isnt-enough

#SchoolSafety
#SchoolBuildings
#SchoolMaintenance
#Sunak
#Keegan
#DFE
#Schools

Labour won't commit to immediately fixing crumbling RAAC schools
https://www.thecanary.co/uk/2023/09/10/labour-use-crumbling-schools-to-promote-austerity-as-reynolds-smirks-like-a-demons-possessed-him/

#Labour
#RAAC
#ReinforcedAutoclavedAeratedConcret
#SchoolSafety
#SchoolBuildings
#MoneyToFixIt
#Money
#Austerity

The new series of #SpaceSyntax seminars #SSLseminars is now online - wonderful list of speakers and great topics - kicking off on 5th Oct

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/architecture/events/2023/oct/space-syntax-lab-seminars-autumn-2023-spring-2024

Held on zoom, all welcome!

@spacesyntax @sociology
#urbanism #UrbanDesign #UrbanSociology #architecture #housing #schools #schoolBuildings #neighbourhoods

‘Hot Mic’ Gillian’s dumbest announcement yet | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/gillian-keegan-schools-concrete-b2405293.html

#SchoolSafety
#SchoolBuildings
#Keegan

Councils, #sewage, #SchoolBuildings: #Britain has neglected the dull but vital stuff – and is paying a heavy price -

One of the hallmarks of a civilised nation is a state that manages basic services. That was our right and privilege, but no longer
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/07/councils-sewage-school-buildings-britain-basic-services

#ToryPoliciesInAction #Austerity

More than half of dilapidated English schools were refused rebuilding money | Schools | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/sep/05/more-than-half-of-dilapidated-english-schools-were-refused-rebuilding-money

#SchoolSafety
#SchoolBuildings
#SchoolRebuilding
#SchoolMaintenance
#DFE

Emily Maitlis returns from summer vacation to find there's hardly anything worth talking about on #TheNewsAgents with Jon Sopel and Lewis Goodall
https://youtu.be/fHtILGkYIMg

#ukpol #RAAC #SchoolBuildings #RishiSunak #GillianKeegan #Bullying #LabourReshuffle #NewsAgents