Facilitators | 

Facilitators is an Interior Design Year 2 + 3 Studio by School of Architecture and Urban Design, RMIT University. It was conducted together with artist and educator Sandra Tobias. The studio initiated a conversation on the Secondary Public Education sector in Australia and used interior design approaches to adjust the distance between the underfunded public education infrastructure and the rocketing top-down educational demand that is pressing both students and teaching staff. The studio focused strongly on site-specificity, requiring students to conduct extensive research into current educational climate pedagogy and education-related design.

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The studio investigated the questions of "How can you design a creative space that removes the teacher-directed classroom to one that facilitates self-directed learning?" and "How can you design a multi-purpose space that functions for the contemporary students?". Students were asked to conduct a series of individual and group workshops investigating the contemporary education environment, learning spaces, technology and sustainability. They have also undertaken a site-specific project based on their research to renovate and re-purpose the Pascoe Vale Girls College Art portable classroom. The students' responses extended across transforming the traditional classroom space to an immersive environment within a realm of biophilic elements, to encouraging physical interaction with the built space using the framing of colours.