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Innovation creates agile multi-level learning within Wesley College’s heritage precinct

For the third Learning Environments WA site visit of 2018, Wesley College opened the doors of the recently completed Mildred Manning Science Centre. Located on the southern bank of the Swan River ove...

Published: Wednesday 20 June 2018

Macquarie University Incubator, Overall Winner 2018 LEA Awards

Macquarie University's Incubator wins the 11th Awards for excellence in educational design

“A building that speaks a language beyond current concepts” The Macquarie University Incubator has been declared the overall winner of Learning Environments Australasia’s 11th Annual Excellence in Ed...

Published: Tuesday 29 May 2018

Celebrate LEA"s new online store with free postage until 31st May

Great news! Learning Environments Australasia now has a dedicated online store. You can now order easily order our publications, including the VIctorian Chapter's award showcase, Places for Learning,...

Published: Sunday 27 May 2018

The 3 Rs kicks off in Sydney

Learning Environments Australasia's 18th annual conference has begun! Almost 600 delegates have converged on the Hilton Sydney for The 3 Rs in the Exponential Age. Architects, designers, educators, p...

Published: Sunday 27 May 2018

Making sense of Teaching and Learning: The Great Learning Environments Debate

The Victorian Chapter's experiment with a learning environments debate produced the biggest Chapter event in LEA's history - and challenged some fundamental ideas about our education system. The even...

Published: Monday 21 May 2018

Northshore Christian Grammar School external gathering space

Creating community at the evolving Northshore Christian Grammar School, WA

The second WA Chapter site visit for 2018 kicked off with a long, long drive north to Alkimos to visit the new and evolving Northshore Christian Grammar School by Broderick Architects (now TRCB Archit...

Published: Monday 21 May 2018

SA's SOLE Forum explores a big idea with a deep impact

"We don't need one computer per student. In fact we can get better outcomes with one to four!" On 10th May 2018, a group of about 30 educators and designers participated in our workshop investigatin...

Published: Monday 21 May 2018

Terry White at the Wellington pop up event

Insights into the UK's education-led learning spaces with Terry White

On Wednesday 16 June, Terry White, a UK based educator and passionate proponent of Learning Led Design, presented to a packed house at the Ministry of Education’s national office, Matauranga House. T...

Published: Sunday 20 May 2018

LEA plays up at Morialta Conservation Park

Adelaide's young and young at heart have embraced a new outdoor play space. On 11th of April, a hot autumn afternoon that must be ranked as one of the filthiest Adelaide has seen in decades, a brave...

Published: Monday 23 April 2018

Mayfield Project 2018 kicks off with design thinking workshop

11 passionate young professionals gathered in Sydney recently for the first 2018 Mayfield Project workshop. Former Mayfield particpant and current WA Chapter Chair, Dani Martin, bore witness to the re...

Published: Sunday 22 April 2018

Rashid Andary (FUSE Architects/Summer Hill PS, centre) with NSW's Daniel Smith & Felicity Lewis

NSW grant winners announced: Small Numbers, Big Thinking

Two primary schools have been awarded $5,000 each under the New South Wales Chapter's grant program, Small Numbers, Big Thinking. The program was established as part of the Chapter's on-going commitm...

Published: Sunday 22 April 2018

Announcing the inaugural Learning Spaces Aotearoa

The New Zealand Chapter of Learning Environments Australasia invites you to the first biannual Learning Spaces Aotearoa one day conference. This day is aimed at exploring the thinking around new ways...

Published: Friday 20 April 2018

Real People, Problems and Responses - St Aloysius Tour and Case Studies

Recently the NSW Chapter toured St Aloysius to gain an understanding of a city fringe school undergoing a master plan and a transition in pedagogy. The school shared their story about change and adap...

Published: Thursday 19 April 2018

How good is my classroom? Island Bay Primary, Wellington

The NZ Chapter held a very well attended event at Island Bay Primary School, Wellington, on 27 March in the school's new Don Jamieson Architecture designed Rimu Block, the most recently completed of t...

Published: Thursday 19 April 2018

Young professionals in design and educaton at the 2016 Exhcnage conference

The 3 Rs Victorian Chapter Scholarship open for applications

The Victorian Chapter of Learning Environments Australasia is calling for Victorian educators under the age of 35 to apply for its 2018 Conference Scholarship. The 3 Rs in the Exponential Age is LEA'...

Published: Tuesday 17 April 2018