A4LE NEWS

NEW PLACES, NEW SPACES

A4LE (Europe) is to move its headquarters to the upcoming Cambridge Centre for Learning Spaces Innovation. The centre will be a forum to support and advance excellence, innovation and well-being in school design, bringing thought leadership through its partnership with A4LE (Europe) and its activities as a knowledge and research hub. A4LE membership is growing across Europe as people increasingly recognise the need for design professionals, educators, researchers, communities, and learners themselves, to work together to rethink learning spaces. We believe that we need to take the opportunity to learn from the impact of Covid-19 and look towards new landscapes for learning. We have an opportunity to draw on all of our collective experience and build on the life-changing and life-learning events that we have all experienced over the last year to create a new vision for learning: a vision that is more inclusive, engaging, motivating and relevant for our young people and our learning communities, while being sustainable for all our futures. More than ever, we now need to ensure that the emotional well-being of all staff and students, and the communities in which they learn, are at the heart of how we rethink, reorganise and design the learning environments for our future.

A4LE (Europe) will: • Share and promote good practice in the design of innovative environments for learning. • Engage in evidence-based research at a European and international level to demonstrate the links between pedagogy and space and improved learning outcomes. • Continue to focus on our learning-led design events programme. • Promote innovation in design thinking through

Planning Learning Spaces magazine. • Publish our members’ research and views on

“Looking through Covid-19 to Future Learning” in a special edition of Planning Learning Spaces magazine • Provide members with full access to the events, information and resources available via the A4LE

International website. Visit a4le.co.uk for more information and details.