Steiner School Philosophy

While brainstorming the mod-5 design project, we decided that instead of doing a set of portables for your generic school, we would do one for a school with specific ideals, and chose the Steiner school. Here are a few core values we researched a would like to see integrated into the project.

-A balance between academic, artistic and social aspects.
-Using art as a practice, and language to develop feelings
-creating a cultural atmosphere
-nurturing the child's imagination in a school environment
-encouraging creativity and free-thinking
-recognising the individuality of a child
-using art, craft, music and language in conjunction with academics

These are just a few.
The steiner school, established by Rudolf Steiner, works on the philosophies of Anthroposophy.
Anthroposophy is about human beings understanding themselves, and their relationship to the earth, both in a physical and spiritual sense.
I believe that this relates well to the task we have been set, to design a learning space which also needs to understand and integrate itself into the environment it will be placed into.

Steiner Schools also have a particular preference in their architecture, that is nature in building, organic architecture. Rudolf Steiner himself had strong ideas in architecture, and i will soon post some pictures of his work in Dornach.

(Information from_ Blaser, Werner, Nature in Building, Birkhauser, 2002, Basel)