Clydebank High School
We were commissioned to work with Clydebank High School and Architecture & design Scotland (A&DS) to help the students consider and explore how they might alter and add to their existing communal spaces to improve the social and learning & teaching experience through A&DS’s ‘tests of change service’. Student representatives from S1-S6 participated in a visioning workshop and the output used to inform and direct a strategic spatial and activity analysis of the building identifying opportunities to augment the existing spaces to better address needs identified by the pupils.
The strategic spatial analysis proposed a number of interventions to create new spaces and environments which was explored further by the students in a ‘space hack’ where they tested and considered the ideas, creating them in situ using: cardboard, boxes, stools, tables and rugs to mimic these new types of environments and develop the ideas and installations further to suit their unique needs.
The pupils used their experiences of the hack to produce images of potential installations linking the process into their curriculum classes, which were captured in a final feedback report to the School.
Our work with Clydebank High School will be showcased in an exhibition held at the Lighthouse in Glasgow from mid June to October 2019 titled ‘The learner Journey: Empowering pupils to shape their schools’ which also features a number of other projects from A&DS’s ‘test of change’ program.