Inventing Schools | A School as Big as the World

Project proposals for the nursery, primary and secondary schools in Milan

"Inventing schools" is a platform for teaching experimentation focusing on the topic of schools. It is open to courses, workshops and degree theses and aims to encourage discussion between the City Administration and the AUIC School, offering the many teachers who are working on the subject of schools the opportunity to work in a more co-ordinated way on a number of case studies agreed with the school buildings of the Municipality of Milan.

The areas of action, aimed at experimenting with reuse, recovery and definition of new categories in relation to the existing public spaces, concern four main interconnected actions (replace - update - adapt - integrate):

  • replacement of existing buildings with the creation and design of new schools
  • renovation and upgrade of existing schools
  • adaptation of technology, structure and energy
  • integration of public educational spaces and open urban networks with parks and green systems