And oldie but goodie, an article on digital spaces I wrote for Learning Spaces Magazine.
Here is a great opportunity to continue your learning. Check out the webinars on active learning, the future of learning, space design, and the future of work that I moderated for Steelcase. The recordings are here.
4/7/20. Congratulations to Northbrook/Glenview School District 30 and ARCON Associates, Inc. for the Grand Prize Award for the design of the Maple School Library. DJD provided discovery services for this project and supported the concept design of the new school. This is the second project that DJD has been affiliated with to win an award from the Learning By Design Project; the other was the Waukee Innovation Learning Center, in Waukee, IA.
3/19/20 I’m proud to have supported the Cedar Falls School District (Cedar Falls, IA) and INVISION Architecture (Waterloo, IA) as a member of their design team. DJD supported referendum work as well as educational programming for the new high school. New renderings of the new school were released and they’re terrific. The large image is of the entrance to the new school, the image on the lower left is of the Commons, the lower center image of the informal spaces that the four academic wings will have, and then in the lower right, is a part of the Athletics complex.
3/8/19 Congratulations to CannonDesign Chicago and INVISION Architecture of Des Moines for their selection as the winner of the 2019 Learn by Design competition at the SXSWedu Conference in Austin, Texas. I’m very proud to have contributed to the design of the school as a member of The Third Teacher+ team of CannonDesign. My role was to develop and employ strategic ethnography techniques that gave us the right information about the community and its desire to develop a new type of student learning experience so that we could develop the right design.
David Jakes Designs has had the opportunity to partner with Kenora Catholic on the redesign of their learning spaces from a classroom model to a studio model. The work involved employing the design process to determine the spatial drivers designed to support that condition and creating a pilot program to facilitate the change. The work has been captured beautifully by VS America in a case study that features our program and outcomes. Read it here.
Here is a video that provides an overview of the experience at St. Thomas Aquinas.
ASFM L2E2
I'm featured in a blog post by Brian Hamm from the American School Foundation of Monterrey (MX) about work I did with them to develop ASFM L2E2, a design process for organizational change nuanced to their school culture. Read it here.
I'm supporting (along with Kevin Jarrett) the work of the administrators and teachers at the Pueblo School for Arts and Sciences - Fulton Heights Campus as they launch a new K-5 school focused on making. The goal: provide an education for the students of a community that will reshape their community. Read the article here.
District 30 Referrendum.
Northfield Township Maker Journey