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'If You Build It' Documentary Screening

On 17 August, over 50 CEFPI WA members and friends gathered at the WA State Library Theatre for our first ever movie event. If You Built it - a Patrick Creadon documentary, was highly regarded by arch...

Published: Monday 31 August 2015

CEFPI’s success as a Linkage Partner in the ARC research project “Innovative Learning Environments and Teacher Change”

CEFPI Australasia is a formal Linkage Partner in the ARC research project “Innovative Learning Environments and Teacher Change”. The research project is a major 4-year study spanning from 2016-2019 a...

Published: Sunday 23 August 2015

CEFPI WA visits Butler College

One of the great things about being a member of CEFPI WA is the opportunity to visit the projects of your colleagues in education facility planning, to see the real project, share ideas, knowledge and...

Published: Friday 21 August 2015

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CEFPI scoops the pool at WA Institute of Architects Awards

Well done to our CEFPI members for their numerous awards in the recent 2015 WA Architecture Awards. It is heartening to see the importance placed on architecture within the education realm, especially...

Published: Tuesday 18 August 2015

Contemporary Technology in Education

Educational Professor, Sugata Mitra conducted a ‘Hole in the Wall’ experiment in 1999 which removed any type of teacher or adult supervision and allowed for a mere internet connected computer to stimu...

Published: Monday 17 August 2015

GET OUTSIDE: Landscapes for Play and Learning in Schools - a one day seminar

A One Day Seminar by Jeavons Landscapes. A forum for discussion and information in a lovely venue, over good food. The seminar will cover:• current research - the role and value of outdoor play at ...

Published: Wednesday 12 August 2015

Two unforgettable weeks in Tanzania

From the moment of landing to the moment of leaving I couldn’t have imagined two weeks of greater discovery. Having taken the opportunity to add the CEFPI expedition to Matipwili to six weeks in Euro...

Published: Sunday 9 August 2015

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Surf Coast Schools Safari

Surf Coast Secondary College and The Eileen Ann Daffy Centre, Sacred Heart College Geelong In August 2015, participants travelled to visit two regional school facilities and exemplar learning spaces ...

Published: Sunday 2 August 2015

WA Chapter Newsletter 15.02

Download the Western Australia chapter newsletter below....

Published: Sunday 5 July 2015

-STEM + ARTS =STEAM

At our recent event "Pedagogy and Architecture" which we shared with a wide range of educators, a clear message was that children's play and learning and the learning environments in which these take ...

Published: Sunday 5 July 2015

CEFPI 2015 Australasia Regional Conference: An educator’s perspective

When Ewan McIntosh, the keynote speaker of the 2015 CEFPI Australasia conference, suggested that ‘often a deputy head applies a fluorescent vest and tries to design a learning space’ he had the educat...

Published: Sunday 5 July 2015

2015 CEFPI Conference Thoughts - Day Three

Day Three After an entertaining conference dinner at the stunning National Arboretum (which I would highly recommend for some day-time exploring), we started day three of the conference with a quick ...

Published: Sunday 5 July 2015

“Beautiful Thinking: Innovative Efficiency”

An adjunct to CEFPI's annual conference in 2015 was an invitation to WA and SA delegates from Interface Australia to learn more about modern carpet design and manufacture by working with their design ...

Published: Tuesday 30 June 2015

The Competent Child - SA Chapter forum

The CEFPI SA Chapter held the inaugural Pedagogy and Architecture Forum on Wednesday 24 June. This event was attended by 40 educators and 25 from the design profession. Early Childhood Teachers Karen...

Published: Monday 29 June 2015

Mt Lawley Primary School Site Visit – ‘Together we did it’

As part of the CEFPI WA Chapter site visits for 2015, one of our more recent events had special meaning to the school and the greater community. In July of 2012, a deliberately lit fire caused $20 mil...

Published: Monday 29 June 2015