DK Holland
In researching how to calm the room we looked into sound deadening materials. And we came upon a very cool product called Rubber-Tak which we can install on two walls in Room 220.
Gloria, Monica and Ms. Morrison with Edward, one of our many experts at the charrette we held in July.
Monica Snellings
loria Fischer, architect, Jillian Kornsweig designer, DK, and I walked through A Day in the Life of Room 220 with our awesome 5th grade classroom teacher, Opal Morrison. In our design world we call this kind of inquiry a 'user journey'. In an architect's world it's called 'programming'.
At any rate we focused on 'what goes where?' in great detail. What are the movements within the room, throughout the day? When, how, and where do kids need access to materials? Where are items currently stored? What is ideal?
Kids from our May workshop with both 4th grade classes - our 50 future 5th graders.
In May when we asked our 50 ‘experts’ (the 10 year olds of PS 20) if it was too noisy in their classroom, in unison, they screamed, ‘YES!”
Carla Diana is a designer, maker-futurist, tech tinkerer, writer, educator and the author creator of LEO the Maker Prince. I met Carla at the Core77 Conference in Brooklyn where 200 designers from all disciplines gathered for a conversation about ideas, techniques and trends.