A Good Start

The Lighthouse project Senses of Place showed what can be sparked by really talking to pupils and letting them inspire talented designers who know how to really listen.  

Working with those same designers, A+DS has explored what some of those initial ideas might mean when held up to the shadowed light of architectural pragmatism.  The results are inspiring.  They range from toolkits to help learners reclaim their Cities, to creating learning spaces which aren’t afraid to take the exhortations of Curriculum for Excellence at their face value. They show how we may not always know the destination of design but we do know where it starts – with the people whose lives are spent  within our creations.

The poet Kenneth White talks of the need to ‘give yourself room for a real beginning’.  Where we start determines where we finish – so start well.