Classrooms of the Future

The Innovation Unit worked with the Science Museum on the ideas for the Classrooms for the Future for 3 Bedfordshire schools. With the involvement of teachers and pupils, exciting learning spaces have been created, designed and finally built. The world's first outdoor MP3 jukebox‚ a solar-powered speed reaction game and wind-powered interactive playground features are in the groundbreaking scheme to revolutionise the way children learn and play.

Three pioneering classrooms and the playground devices at the three schools were developed by Bedfordshire County Council in association with the Science Museum and Sergison Bates architects. The projects are part of a prestigious national scheme‚ run by the Department for Education and Skills‚ called Classrooms of the Future and The Innovation Unit, which was then inside the DfES, also worked on the project.

The outdoor interactive devices are specially designed to incorporate learning and play‚ and were developed as part of a project to challenge the traditional relationships between indoor and outdoor learning environments‚ and the perceived barriers between play and lesson time. They are complemented by new classrooms designed by Sergison Bates which feature innovative spatial‚ lighting and acoustic properties designed to maximize their potential as educational spaces‚ as well as state of the art IT and audio-visual infrastructure.

Find out more about these and other classrooms of the future ... in the downloadable publication,  Classrooms of the Future.