A lot of people have been talking lately about the importance of revolutionizing the education, and especially with the distance learning we have realized that Italian system is not prepared.

What if school is rethought?

Space and environment influence our behavior and consequently our thoughts. New actions allow us to create new neural connections and change the way we think and learn.

These projects, in collaboration with Ateliers Alfonso Femia (formerly 5+1AA), have allowed us to participate in important and impactful questions for us and for the society in which we live. We’re proud of these jobs.

We believe that change must not start exclusively from a digital revolution, where it is clear that the Italian school is a backward step compared to other countries, but requires a strong transformation of structures, where architecture must adapt to new cultural and, above all, social needs.

The school must return to being, as it was in the full economic boom (it is no coincidence that the only school facilities still used were designed in those years), a center of social exchange. The school is an integral part of each city or country, it is what keeps a community alive. When the school fails, everything around it dies. We have seen this over the past year with the pandemic, but the same process was already taking place in many small countries, where many schools have had to close due to lack of enrollment.

What is missing is a flexible school, in which the physical environment, which as we have already said, conditions the way in which we educate, learn and grow. The school of the future, therefore, must be built around the needs of users, but always with an eye to sustainability and the community that surrounds it. A school placed at the center of a collective investment today, for better education tomorrow.