Joined Up Design for Schools

Features over sixty remarkable projects in which school children thoughout Britain have commissioned pioneering concepts from a dazzling array of international designers and architects, including Richard Rogers Partnership, Paul Smith, Will Allsop, Marks Barfield,Thomas Heatherwick,Wolff Olins, Conran & Partners, Priestman Goode and Kevin McCloud The first scheme worldwide in which client teams of children have engaged today's leading designers to respond to their everyday needs and concerns Engagingly describes and illustrates an inspiring range of projects that deal with the built environment, communications, storage, colour, clothing and identity in schools Coincides with a major exhibition of all the projects at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, in February-March 2005 Essential reading for designers, architects, teachers and anyone who cares about the environment in which our children learn