Claiming events of school (re)design: materialising the promise of Building Schools for the Future

Olga den Besten, John Horton, Peter Adey, Peter Kraftl

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Abstract

This paper focuses upon a major, ‘flagship’ programme of investment in school building (re)development instigated by the UK New Labour Government between 2004 and 2010: Building Schools for the Future (BSF). Drawing upon empirical material from research in two schools which were undergoing refurbishment in this policy context, we explore how BSF was manifest, in practice, as an event characterised by the promise of transformation. We focus upon two particular school buildings, highlighting how this promise came to be attached, not unproblematically, to the redesign of diverse material school spaces, be they small and ‘functional’ (e.g. corridors) or high-profile and ‘inspirational’ (e.g. flagship atria)
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)9-26
Number of pages17
JournalSocial and Cultural Geography
Volume12
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Feb 2011

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