Schools of the future
What will the K-12 education sector look like in 20 years? Recently, a group of Harvard students tried to answer that question by designing schools of the future. During an intense, seven-week collaboration, teams from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design (GSD) and the new Doctor of Education Leadership degree (Ed.L.D.) program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) developed the designs, with an emphasis on innovative approaches to teaching and learning. “It’s impossible to envision the future of education without seeing the building, but equally impossible to see it without understanding the new means of pedagogy and how students and teachers will interact,” said Hashim Sarkis, Aga Khan Professor of Landscape Architecture and Urbanism in Muslim Societies. Sarkis created the project with Harry Spence, co-director of the HGSE’s Ed.L.D. Program. A professor of practice at HGSE, Spence was eager to challenge his students to think about the future of education by incorporating...