CONTENTS
Introduction 08
Aim & Objective Methodology
Scope & Limitations Glossary & Roadmap
PROLOGUE | The ever changing face of education 13
BAM! (The Bureaucratic Administrative Machine)
Root to Branch (Alternative education in India)
Towards pupil centered learning
School in the cloud
From Pedagogy to space
ONE | Factors Affecting learning environments 23
Part A: Understanding circumstances to evaluate factors under which learning environments operate
1A.1 Socio-political conditions 1A.2 Empathy driven impact 1A.3 Climatic/Calamitic impact
Part B- Post calamitic condition in Government school of kerala
1B.1 Location and context 1B.2 Built environment
1B.3 Calamitic events of change 1B.4 Observations
TWO | Time, Change and its Agents : A theoretical discourse 30
Diagrams legend & Structure mapping
Time as a catalyst of change
Agents of change
Agents exercise empowerment: empowerment implies order
Flexibility accommodates change
THREE | The invisible structure 47
The phenomena
The fundamental as attributes, principles and their meanings.
Flexibility and its relationships In-determinant boundaries Identity crisis
Power, Control and Communication
The fabric of Social Experience
Flow of situations
Transience
Modular world
Temporary needs
FOUR | From Situational to Transient 57
From situational to transient
Spatial parameters of flexibility
Freeing the Plan - Le Corb and Mies
Approach: Moving Parts of an open plan
Otonoha School in Ibaraki, Japan - UZU Architects
Kisho Kurosawa on mobility
Approach - Mobile learning environments
ECOLAB in Los Angeles, USA - OMD by Jennifer Siegal
Cedric price on modularity
4.7.1 Potteries Think-Belt - The University that never was
EPILOGUE | Evaluation - Contextualization - Futures 77
Evaluation in theory, conception and space
Contextualizing design decisions
Possible futures
Bibliography | List of Figures | Appendix 88