Rivas, S. & García-Diego, H. (Eds.) (2022). Educational settings: Dialogues between architecture, design, and education. Tirant lo Blanch. 409 pp.

Abstract

In a post-pandemic setting that has required the reformulation of teaching learning spaces, the pedagogue Sonia Rivas and the architect Héctor García-Diego have published the book Educational settings: Dialogues between architecture, design, and education. Although interest in the influence of space on the quality of teaching–learning processes was already present in educational discussions, the context of the health crisis has brought it to the forefront. The book starts from the change in paradigm in the understanding of homes, which were traditionally spaces dedicated to privacy, rest, and family life but have become places for work and study; and how spaces traditionally designed for learning (universities and schools) have been permeated by the need to be places that are accommodating, livable, and capable of embracing vulnerability. The emergency situation and the experience of the summer course on the dialogue between education and architecture organised by the editors at the Universidad de Navarra after the lockdown of 2020, provide a justification and purpose for this book.