SCHOOL SHAPER

Creating amazing learning spaces

  • Client: Various / Category: Community Consultation, Shaping Spaces, Children & Young People.

We are trained CABE Space Shapers and Junior Space Shapers, a method of working with users of and visitors to a space to explore important features and the relationship between form and function. The purpose is to inform the subsequent design process in which a space is evolved to become increasingly loved and fit for purpose

We are passionate about engaging young people in designing their own spaces and wanted to utilise these methods in a school setting - but Space Shaper didn't quite fit. So we have developed School Shaper which has become a very effective practical tool which enables children and young people to actively explore how their learning spaces can be designed. We have worked in several schools, evolving a range of tools to successfully engage students as old as 24 and as young as 4.

An increasing number of successful practical projects have emerged from this dynamic process and we are always keen to do more.

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Our Approach


We don't think we know best - and that gives us a fresh approach to communicating with new audiences and meeting people on their own terms.

Our community consultation work with people of all ages seeks to give participants their own genuine voice, rather than leading them to say what we think they should.

Our approach to projects is to work with clients to develop a clear brief and then work hard to exceed their expectations.

We have energy, drive and are highly motivated to do the best job we possibly can.

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