Introduction:
Classroom design often becomes an afterthought but thankfully, modern educators are putting more focus on how the learning environment can help the student’s learning process. More research and careful space planning are now being done to design and build classrooms that set up learners for success.
An average person spends a total of 21,600 hours, or roughly four and a half years, of their lives sitting in a classroom from kindergarten to college. Those hours are spread over a person’s formative years and thus influences their absorption of information, learning style, and retention. It can also influence how a person, or a kid for that matter, feels about learning and education in general. The classroom, where those 21,600 hours are spent, must then be designed and built to be place that is optimized for effective learning.
As designers, this thrust towards a more student-empowering learning environment is something we are glad to be part of. We are all too glad to be veering away from cookie-cutter furniture and traditional rows of desks.

Does classroom design actually affect learning?
Which details of the classroom design make a positive difference?
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