Inner City College – The Story so Far,
John Burke, Principal, Inner City College and John Nicols, Bateman Architects
Inner City College (planning name) will be built on Kitchener Park. It will initially enrol 250 Year 7 students and grow to an expected 1500 students from Years 7 to 12 by 2025, with a capacity for up to 2000 students in the future.
The college will be a central hub for the Subiaco community. With shared facilities, such as Subiaco Oval and the college’s playing courts and gymnasium, it will play an integral role in creating opportunities to unite the community. Students will benefit from strong connections fostered with local business and industry, universities and training providers.
John Nichols and John Burke will discuss how the design of the physical spaces influences the learning environment and how this innovative development will transform education for the greater Subiaco community.
Redesigning the Brief: Nanjing International School
Ewan McIntosh, NoTosh, & Philip Idle, EIW Architects
NoTosh pioneered a collaborative process that sees students and teachers design the brief itself, with a focus on learning and teaching and not space. The brief led to EIW’s innovative human-centred design solution for a school that’s becoming a must-see in Asia.
Nanjing International School has two goals: to put student voice and choice at the centre of everything they do, and to burst the bubble of being an international school in the heart of China. So, students and teachers worked together with long-standing allies NoTosh to rethink the architects' brief, and design it from their perspective. The collaborative process of the brief and a focus on learning and teaching - not space - led to EIW’s human-centred design solution, one that excites early year learners' senses through their eyes, through their touch, through their movement, through using their hands and feet.