- Who We Are
- Topics
- By Subject Area
- dummy
- By Level
- Projects
- Projects Column 1
- Agency by Design
- Aligned Programs for the 21st Century
- Artful Thinking
- Arts as Civic Commons
- Causal Learning Projects
- Citizen-Learners: A 21st Century Curriculum and Professional Development Framework
- Creando Comunidades de Indagación (Creating Communities of Inquiry)
- Creating Communities of Innovation
- Cultivating Creative & Civic Capacities
- Cultures of Thinking
- EcoLEARN Projects
- Educating with Digital Dilemmas
- Envisioning Innovation in Education
- Global Children
- Growing Up to Shape Our Place in the World
- Higher Education in the 21st Century
- Projects Column 2
- Humanities and the Liberal Arts Assessment (HULA)
- Idea Into Action
- Implementation of The Good Project Lesson Plans
- Inspiring Agents of Change
- Interdisciplinary & Global Studies
- Investigating Impacts of Educational Experiences
- JusticexDesign
- Leadership Education and Playful Pedagogy (LEaPP)
- Leading Learning that Matters
- Learning Innovations Laboratory
- Making Ethics Central to the College Experience
- Making Learning Visible
- Multiple Intelligences
- Navigating Workplace Changes
- Next Level Lab
- Out of Eden Learn
- Projects Column 3
- Pedagogy of Play
- Reimagining Digital Well-being
- Re-imagining Migration
- ROUNDS
- Signature Pedagogies in Global Education
- Talking With Artists Who Teach
- Teaching for Understanding
- The Center for Digital Thriving
- The Good Project
- The Studio Thinking Project
- The World in DC
- Transformative Repair
- Visible Thinking
- Witness Tree: Ambassador for Life in a Changing Environment
- View All Projects
- Projects Column 1
- Resources
- Professional Development
How can the places we learn and objects we use best support learning & thinking? Too many classrooms, types of furniture, and building layouts fail to reflect contemporary research on how learning best happens. The Learning Spaces Lab at Project Zero explores the relationship among qualities of physical space, learning processes, and thinking/learning outcomes. A focal area of our work examines spatial affordances that support specific social learning practices, including:
- Noticing: how learners slow down, observe, attend to, and reflect.
- Questioning: how learners wonder, explore, probe, and are curious.
- Experimenting: how learners take risks and engage in patterns of inquiry to intentionally try something new and different.
- Documenting: how learners for gather, share, and interpret evidence of their learning, growth, and progress.
- Helping: how learners reveal trust and vulnerability in soliciting feedback and assistance as well as show their competency in offering assistance to others.
The overarching aim of the lab is to assist educators, designers, and architects in creating the optimal environmental conditions for learning and various cultural contexts.