Keywords: Participatory design, School architecture, Modern educational space, Postoccupancy evaluation
This article analyzes the involvement of teachers and students into rearrangement
or creation of school buildings. Participatory design is a long and complicated process,
on the other hand involving the users of the building into designing provides a possibility to
create educational spaces which would be adapted to their concrete needs. The article analyzes
primary information collecting methods that help to identify the weakest and the strongest
features of the current school buildings. This way, further productive discussions about
how to modernize educational spaces are encouraged. The article also presents the project
The Yard carried out in Lithuania, where creative workshops were organized for teachers,
students and their parents. The background of this project is design suggestions made by five
standard schools of the country in accordance with the results of researches and excursions
that took time in creative workshops.