Education

With empathy as a starting point, our educational projects delve into how communication and spatial experience shape the ways we learn. Our goal is to design learning environments which champion equity, inclusion and sensory engagement at an intersectional level.

We believe that thinking differently about sensory experience can bring new creativity to the design of our built surroundings. Drawing on the social and sensory dimensions of design, we’ve worked with a diverse range of publicly- and privately-funded organisations to create tailored spaces which respond to site specific needs and the evolving intersections of pedagogy, accessibility, and community.

Over the years, we’ve completed educational spaces which challenge the perceived neutrality of educational architecture. In collaboration with designer Richard Dougherty, we delivered an extension to Heathlands School in St Albans - the UK’s largest school for Deaf children. One of only a few buildings in the UK of its kind, our design embraces DeafSpace principles, emphasising the visual and the tactile as essential forms of communication.