Nature as an External Brain: Outdoor Spaces that Regulate, Inspire, and Teach We are increasingly understanding the impact that the physical environment has on children’s well-being and learning. Among all the elements that can transform a school playground, the presence of nature is, arguably, the most powerful. We are not talking about ornamentation or ‘adding […]

Identity as a Third Skin: How the School Playground Narrates Who We Are and Where We Want to Go Artist and thinker Friedensreich Hundertwasser proposed his theory of the five skins to explain how people inhabit the world: the skin of the body, clothing, the home, social identity, and finally, the planet. When we translate

Renaturalizing the School Library: Plants, Neuroarchitecture and Well-being in Learning BY EDUCACIONLAB Renaturalizing the School Library: Plants, Neuroarchitecture and Well-being in Learning The school library is much more than a place to store books. It is a space where the nature of learning, creativity, and students’ emotional well-being converge. When we integrate plants and natural

More Than Recess: How to Design a Playground that Enhances the Child’s Brain 21 Keys for Creating a Neuroeducational School Playground A playground that is well designed both neuro- and pedagogically is not simply a recreation space, but rather a living laboratory for learning, regulation, and bonding. Each proposal, invitation, texture, color, plant, and shape

The Keys of Neuroarchitecture for Transforming School Libraries into Teaching Spaces 1. Introduction: the library as extended brain of the school For decades, the school library has been understood as a consultation and silence space. However, advances in neuroeducation and neuroarchitecture demonstrate that the library can become one of the most powerful spaces for developing

Ecosophy: Ecological Philosophy in the Classroom BY EDUCACIONLAB Ecosophy: Ecological Philosophy in the Classroom «If I had not spent long hours lying in the grass, watching or listening to those brothers of mine, perhaps I would not have understood so well how much life this great earth holds in its breast, all the infinitely small