Posts by Randy Fielding
How to Design a Learning Commons
Learning in a multipurpose space can be a challenge if the space is not designed properly. In this article, we shed light on six crucial design elements for creating learning commons where students thrive.
Inclusive and Homelike Bathrooms
As social-cultural conceptions of privacy, gender, race, and identity have evolved, anxieties and challenges have been illuminated related to the design, use, and interactions associated with public restrooms. Randy Fielding and Cierra Mantz shares more in their latest post.
Learning Suites: A First Step in Overcoming Isolation in Schools
Physical isolation presents a barrier to the kind of authentic learning we often desire in 21st-century schools. Learning Suites are part of the solution to break out of isolated learning environments.
Personalized Storage in Schools
Randy Fielding explores the changing needs to give students personal storage in school, and the solutions can have surprising benefits.
School With a View: Vistas, Movement, and Learner Well-being
Randy Fielding explores how views outside and interior vistas can have a significant impact on learner well-being.
6 Elements of Thriving Learners
Randy Fielding and Nathan Strenge share how cultivating six elements of thriving learners will make a deep and last social impact.
Welcoming Entry and Layered Access
Holistic health and safety, including physical security, are paramount in the design of today’s schools. Randy Fielding explores design patterns that begin to address this need.
Learning Walls Versus Teaching Walls
Walls can be used as a dynamic learning asset to promote movement, active learning and student agency -- are your walls designed to do that? Randy Fielding explores in his latest post.
Learning In Community–What Does it Look Like?
When we reimagine how learning can happen throughout communities, a world of opportunities are unlocked. Randy Fielding shares how and where to start.
Connecting to Nature is Essential to Our Well-being
Indoor-outdoor connections are highly desired by learners around the world, but schools haven’t always had the best relationship with learning in nature. Randy Fielding details how we can change that through design.