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Terry White innovating through learning-led design and working with you to re-imagine your spaces for learning
Terry White
I have a passion for excellence in the design of schools and environments for learning. I have worked in the public and private sectors of education, with national and local government, schools, academies, architects, design professionals, industry and universities.
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From my background as a qualified teacher, I recognise and draw upon my own experience and evidence believing, that to successfully design learning environments within schools, it is critical to fully understand the approach to learning and teaching that the spaces need to facilitate.
I believe our learning environments and schools need to be designed with a focus on the future and not rebuilt as a reflection of the past. In developing this approach, I draw on wide ranging project experience, research, evidence and networking in the UK and internationally.
My Design Approach to Projects
Learning-led design
To successfully design learning environments within schools it is essential to fully understand the approach to learning and teaching that the spaces are intended to facilitate. Over recent years my work has focused on learning-led design in order to ensure that there is a strong emphasis on learning and teaching and the improvement of educational outcomes when building and remodelling schools and academies through integrated design solutions.
My projects
There are five main workstreams that are delivered through my learning-led design approach.
DEVELOPING THE EDUCATIONAL DESIGN BRIEF
Oxford Academy and Mabel Pritchard Special School, Littlemoor Oxford, White Design Associates, Bristol.
For schools, administrators, architects and contractors
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PEDAGOGY, ORGANISATION AND SPACE
Developing dynamic and connected spaces for future focused schools.
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MAKING A REALITY OF YOUR VISION FOR LEARNING
Working with staff to redesign learning spaces and provide professional development for transition into the new environments.
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KNOWLEDGE SHARING
Through active workshops, research, publications and conferences within the UK and internationally.
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Stephen Heppell: A testimonial for Terry White
A testimonial for Terry White
Terry White combines those valued attributes in one wise head, one of a bare handful around the world who do so. Perhaps most usefully of all, he manages to communicate this valued input in a measured, accessible way.
I've worked with him, on and off, well back into the last century because I value what he brings uniquely to projects, from the vast ambitious ones, to the micro-design challenges. What we are now learning about the detailed environmental conditions for optimal learning, from light levels and temperature, to CO2 and sound, is a good example of the new knowledge Terry constantly evaluates, absorbs, understands, applies and communicates so well.
He doesn't stop!
