Participation by Design: A Shared Learning Environment (2004)

Three small high schools with a focus on the arts, jointly housed inside Lehman High School in the Bronx, sought to transform an obsolete woodshop and lab into a shared teaching lab and online graphic arts studio. Laura Kurgan Design was commissioned by New Visions for Public Schools to design the space, but more importantly to create a participatory process for the collaborative design of shared spaces in small school campuses. Here the multiple stakeholders had to invent modes of teaching with computers when access to computing cannot be taken for granted, and the challenges came to affect everything from table design to room configuration.