Usbek & Rica – “Ideal School”, the exhibition that reinvents the future of the classroom

“For two centuries, the school as we know it in France has been governed by standards: a rectangular room, a side corridor, a asphalt courtyard and standard materials”note Anna Labouze and Keimis Henni, co-commissioners with the Senzu workshop. Consequently, Hence a distribution of roles often hierarchical between students and adults, but also between different ages inside childhood. Similarly, What the new design of the Cergy-Pontoise Plant School aimed. in the 1970s, precisely to overthrow: a sequence on stilts connected to it nursery and primary classes, spanning public space thanks to a modular and multicolored architecture built in wood structure.

Preto of the future – Usbek & rica – "ideal

Thus also of the courtyard. a transitional space or completely inside or completely outside, informal meeting place, often spontaneous, which the exhibition summons from recent projects of Ibis schools in Herentals and Vlindretuin in Lille. Or the playground. finally on the usbek & rica – “ideal way to getting out of the worship of the asphalt-see the Oasis method launched in Paris in 2017, which notably inspired the Frida-Kahlo school group, in Gironde.

From there to transform parking lots and kitchens into classrooms, or even get the school out of its own walls? It is on this opening note that the device concludes. by recalling in passing that the pandemic of COVVI-19 has rekindled the interest in the classes outdoors, whose science proves that they stimulate the cognitive capacities of children … An enchanting journey, which makes you want to learn otherwise.