Our article about our work in Ecuador on architecture and Education is out. Here below it is the link to it: How to make a basic school design pedagogically interesting? Learning from a case in Ecuador.

18th of January…it was my birthday, coincidentally it was also the day I received an offer from Gan Shalom Preschool to start working as a Director. It has now been more than two weeks I have been co-directing the school with Laura – the outgoing director. I will start directing the school on my own […]

In January, our article will be coming out in one of the magazines of UNAE, called Mamakuna, about the aesthetic dimension in the pedagogical model and the architectural plan of the Unidad Educativa UNAE that we designed! Here a brief preview:  

This year there was the 50th Anniversary of the History of Education Society. So we held a conference in Winchester! The conference was so well organised, in a small conference hotel close to the train station. As the graduate student representative I helped organising a panel with 8 graduate students, each of which presented in […]

As part of our trip, Shodona and I we were lucky enough to be able to visit the Nicolaigården school, which is situated in the historical centre of Stockholm – Sweden. The school is one of the best examples of a form of democratic, egalitarian and socially just education. It is a public school, and it […]

Today, with Seba and Paulina, we spent the day going around factories and workshops to look for materials to build the Atelier and the school more generally. We founds some great shades and textures! More visits to come tomorrow!

Seba and I meet again. We first crossed paths in California 8 years ago, working on the development of La Scuola in SF. Now, I invited him in Ecuador to work with local architects to create a public and innovative school! We are now working on how to create a structure for the school that […]

We just ended a 5 weeks teachers’ training course about educational innovation, with 44 teachers of 20 schools around the area of Cuenca – Ecuador. The course touched on a variety of different topics which included: work on the importance of the aesthetic dimension in teaching, innovative methodologies of teaching in the Ecuadorian context such […]