Survival of the Fittest

Our new website is live at www.smarterplaces.org. Our objective is simple: to provide those who want to participate in school design with the means to explore, evolve, and communicate their ideas.

There is something profound about releasing ideas onto the internet where Darwinian rules apply. The first measure is survival, and our hope is that the website will find its own important niche in the food chain and grow to become an integral part of the language of school design in Scotland.

To do this, we need to let go of our creation – to allow it to change in response to what the world wants from it. Eventually, we all need to recognise this as an essential part of the design process – allowing our designs to make their own way in the world.