We have been leading a number of workshops with Primary School pupils as part of the Staffordshire Building Schools for the Future programme. Larry Priest has been appointed as Client Design Advisor and consulting with pupils is an integral part of the consultation process from the outset of the programme.

The main theme for the 3 days of workshops is Kinaesthesia: an awareness of the position and movement of the parts of the body by means of sensory organs (proprioceptors) in the muscles and joints). Pupils considered the body shape as a footprint to explore ideas about learning spaces; social spaces; colour and outside spaces. Where on the body would formal learning take place? Or eating lunch? The body shape proved an effective way of expanding traditional thinking.

The consultation process has been shared online by Cantoo Design who specialise in interactive consultation processes.  They have created this video of the workshop sessions too: