Our society strives to become more mobile, flexible and inclusive. The school system is also constantly evolving.
The learning environment is an important factor when it comes to motivation and learning success. Different didactic and methodological concepts, different learning situations, varying group sizes and, last but not least, the heterogeneity and individuality of the learners themselves require a high degree of flexibility – and at the same time represent an enormous opportunity for effective and individual learning.
It is not an easy task to create flexible learning spaces and break through old, entrenched learning structures. The restructuring applies to everything: both the education and training of teaching staff and the equipment of the learning spaces.
Ideally, learning landscapes and settings are created that are highly variable and can be changed quickly and easily. In these learning spaces, group work is easily possible, as are presentations, places of retreat or places for informal exchange. Xbrick® can help create these new learning spaces:
A dynamic learning space design means that the room itself and its furniture create flexible usage options. With movable furniture such as the Xbrick®, children can design their own learning settings, contribute their own ideas and work in a way that is adapted to the respective task. The Xbrick® in particular is suitable for quickly switching between individual, pair and group tasks.
Because learners can participate in the use of space, they can create exactly the right environment they need for optimal learning. In addition, helping to design their learning spaces has a motivating effect on children: they are more than just consumers, but an active part of the learning process. This creates a learning culture in which teachers and learners can really meet on an equal footing and the needs of each individual child are given more priority.
With Xbrick® and our accessories, we provide elements that can quickly and easily reconfigure learning spaces, making it easy for learners and teachers to create their own learning environment. Intuitively and in no time at all. Made from sensible materials. For indoors and outdoors.
A driving force and loud voice in the field of learning space design is Rosan Bosch. The Dane is the founder and creative director of the Rosan Bosch Studio in Copenhagen and is attracting international attention for her creative and innovative approaches to learning space structuring. The aim is to create more meaningful places, more appealing interiors and more playful ways of perceiving the world. To achieve this, the studio uses colours, materials, textures and light to create playful spaces that encourage creativity, imagination and innovation.
The Vittra School Telefonplan in Stockholm is probably the best-known project that Rosan Bosch has worked on. The school is open, playful and dynamic and offers a remarkable model concept in which there is plenty of space for modern learning methods and principles.
The Xbrick® offers incredibly versatile possibilities for designing and using learning spaces. Based in particular on the innovative approaches of Rosan Bosch, we have summarized here how Xbrick® can be integrated into the design of flexible learning space settings:
This learning variant is particularly suitable for one-way communication, i.e. for frontal teaching, lectures or presentations.
The multifunctional stool Xbrick® makes it easy to learn together in a group: whether sitting in a working group or in pairs facing each other, close to the floor or at chair height. In addition, the lightweight flomo board can be hung on the wall like a classic blackboard. And if the group needs a table, the flomo board can just as quickly be used as a storage and writing surface.
This is about concentrated individual work. Learners are offered opportunities to retreat where they can learn individually and quietly.
Sometimes the world has to stay outside: In order to learn independently, to withdraw and to be with yourself, you sometimes need separate rooms. With Xbrick®, this is no problem. In no time at all, an Xbrick® and an X-tseat can be turned into a quiet individual workstation with its own writing surface.
Campfires are all about group work. Learning spaces that promote dialogue encourage team learning.
Children learn by listening as well as by showing: This is why settings for presentations, lectures or frontal teaching are extremely relevant. With Xbrick®, the necessary structures can be created quickly and easily in an open space. Learners either sit alone on a building block, next to each other on the X-bench, opposite each other or arranged in a circle. The Xbrick® can also be used to build a grandstand or podium for the speakers. At the same time, the flomo whiteboards are used, which can be placed freely in the room with the help of the practical easels flomo easel. This creates presentation settings anywhere and at any time. Another option is the flomo geckos: these suction cups can be attached to glass panes in no time at all. There are also innovative ideas for outdoor lessons, because the flomo x-belt is a Velcro fastener that can be attached around trees or pillars.
As in the African savannah, all animals meet at the waterhole. In a school context, this means that different students can meet at the waterhole and exchange ideas in a relaxed atmosphere.
Based on Rosan Bosch’s watering hole, the Xbrick® is sometimes also about using spaces for informal learning when exchanging ideas with others. The aim here is to equip an open space with elements that are flexible, lightweight and easy to handle – and quiet when being moved around. Xbrick®, as a handy multifunctional stool, is ideal for this task. Whether for sitting on, setting it up, laying it down or using it in a team with the flomo whiteboards to play on walls or sketch things. The Xbrick® is unbeatable when it comes to spontaneously creating a wide variety of interaction and communication spaces from just a few building blocks.
This is where children get active. The focus is on practice. Complementing theoretical learning, practical experience and learning can be had through art rooms, sound studios or laboratories.
As with Rosan Bosch, practical experience and exploration are extremely important. Learning experimentally and through play and practice means understanding things, and that in the truest sense of the word. Children benefit enormously from the opportunity to do handicrafts, try things out, make music and be artistically active. Xbrick® also invites you to do this. Whether for designing the room to provide a framework for discovery, or for three-dimensional experimentation with the building blocks themselves.
Movement is important and can be useful in many different ways in learning space design. Learning content, for example, can be combined directly with movement. However, sports and physical activity are at the same time an important balance to be able to concentrate again and again throughout the day.
Learning in and with movement and bringing dynamism into learning spaces has great advantages: However, this requires flexible furniture that is light but still stable and indestructible. This is what the Xbrick® multifunctional stool offers, which quickly becomes a piece of sports equipment that invites learners to move, whether indoors or outdoors.
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