Inside school design: the role of interior design in cultural change

Kellee’s research investigates how interior design is being used to shape new types of school spaces and places designed to promote collaborative, hands-on learning experiences for children and their teachers. Her thesis documents these new learning settings explaining how they work and providing instructions for how to make them. This will help school communities, especially teachers, understand how to exploit school interiors to support teaching practice. It will also help architects and designers working with school communities to develop more detailed design briefs for better functioning schools, which they will be able to evaluate more effectively using Kellee’s research methodology.