a new architecture for education @ lake wales high school in august of 2013 the keystone approach
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A new architecture for education @ Lake Wales High School
in August of 2013
The Keystone Approach
Using architecture and design as a metaphor for all learning helps students explore how
things work…it is not just the acquisition of bits of information,
it is exploring….
Investigating, Creating, Imagining, Understanding,
and Connecting…Architectureis a concrete way into abstract
ideas…using this metaphor moves students into
higher-order thinking.
Understanding cultures through the buildings they build…
architecture is about math, art, science, history, and the structure of language--
The world around us is a world of numbers—numbers that spell
life and harmony.
Teaching students to look for the patterns that are found in
every discipline.
Teaching students to become the architects of their own lives…designing a life of meaning and purpose.
BalanceProportion
RhythmEmphasis
UnityForm and Function
PatternsAesthetics
Composition: Music, Art, Literature, Dance, Social
Structures, Social Justice, and on and on and on…it is all
about design!
Sometimes education crushes the spirit and the imagination of children.
Compress the mind or Expand the mind: Lake Wales
High School is choosing Expansion
Using design principles to transform public education
Less is more Mies van der Rohe
Aesthetic: The guiding principle in matters of artistic
beauty
We will teach students become the stewards of this sanctuary for learning on Iron Mountain.
One way or the other humans must create: either order or
disorder, but we must create…
Just as music, where deep voices answer high ones, and intermediate ones are pitched between them so they ring out
in harmony... a wonderful balance of proportions is the
mind.
Leon Battista Alberti 1755
Structure is the Giver of light
Design is a critical thread that runs through every aspect of our
lives—intellectual, emotional, and ethical.
Edward W. Bok understood this truth.
It is about the magic of the creative process…
It is only a question of opening our eyes to the extraordinary world around us. Nature has
been lavish in good design. It is there for us to see, exposed in full view, within our reach at all
times, without even moving from where we are.
Balance
Harmony
Symmetry
Dynamism
Scale
Understanding patterns
It is the first step to understanding the world
around us…
The Redesign of LWHSAugust 2013
Let’s see how our collectiveimagination will change their
world. Isn’t it worth a try?
Seekin