Pedarchitettura. Quali spazi per l'educazione della persona? Un’architettura pedagogica per nuovi modi di insegnare e di apprendere nella scuola del futuro

Pedagogy and architecture fields of study seem distant from each other, actually the collaboration between the two disciplines is widely studied and analyzed. The structuring of space and the furniture layout, desks and chair, affect people and teacher can give rise to another organization and another scenario. It becomes important, therefore, to start from the space and from its organization in order to propose a new teaching model. The research has followed two distinct paths: one part was developed in Copenhagen, at Hellerup Skole and Ørestad Gymnasium. This choice of Denmark was made for three reasons: the investments that have been made on the school architecture, the two schools have interpreted the Danish Government to propose an innovative teaching method and the legislative measures that since 1844 were issued foreseeing adequate and clean classrooms and giving importance to the influence of educational spaces on child development . The second part involves Enrico Fermi Institute of Mantua, where the manager has made some structural and organizational changes with the Teal classroom and new ‘origami desk’, for these reasons this institute could be taken as an example of what could be possible in Italy in old schools, with limited investment. From the studies carried out important to highlight that should guide the design and/or reorganization of the space: readability, flexibility and affordance. We have to refer to the physical structure of the place in question, the objects that compose it and the actions that take place regularly there. The three elements: structure, properties and actions must be interactively related between them, so that there is a coordination between them.