In this program, we welcome everyone engaged in the design, creation, and care of learning environments and cultural spaces. It is open to educators across all levels, school leaders, pedagogistas and atelieristas, architects and designers, artists, librarians, museum and community-space professionals, researchers, policy makers, and cultural practitioners.

Whether you work with young children, adolescents, university students, or adults — in schools, museums, libraries, ateliers, universities, or public spaces — through our program, we invite you into a shared exploration of how creativity, pedagogy, and imagination can shape learning across contexts, disciplines,

At the heart of this week is the idea that educational transformation cannot be reduced to architecture, aesthetics, or flexible furniture alone. New environments do not automatically produce new forms of learning. As many educators and designers working in this field remind us, meaningful change requires a parallel transformation in culture, relationships, and professional practice.

Environments matter because they shape encounters, participation, autonomy, and ways of thinking but only when educators themselves develop new ways of observing, collaborating, listening, and designing learning together.

This is why in our programs, we approach educational design not as the creation of finished solutions, but as an ongoing process of experimentation and collective inquiry. We invite you to think beyond the question of what spaces should look like and instead ask: What kinds of relationships, interactions, and forms of learning do we want to make possible?

Across the week, we explore how schools and cultural spaces can prototype new practices in small, meaningful ways — through documentation, dialogue, interdisciplinary collaboration, and attention to how people actually work together. In this sense, educational design becomes less about implementing models and more about cultivating the conditions for change to emerge.