PEB and the Ministry of Education of Portugal brought together 67 library and resource centre professionals, policy makers, educators and information technology specialists from 21 countries around the theme “Designing Schools for the Information Society: Libraries and Resource Centres”. The...

The design of this flexible school for early childhood education in Milan, Italy, takes into account children’s development and the different ways they experience space according to their age. The facilities will include not only a nursery school and kindergarten, but also a drop-in day-care...

The restoration of an historic school building in Battipaglia, Italy, will provide new public facilities and is hoped to boost urban renewal. The municipality of Battipaglia, in the province of Salerno, held an architectural competition for renovating the E. De Amicis Primary School and the...

The Intelligent Educational Training Station has been developed in Italy to meet emerging school building needs. The project, for schools from the primary to upper secondary level, proposes flexible architecture for an “intelligent school” network, and was developed by CISEM, the Centre for...

A seminar entitled "Designing Tomorrow's School" was organised by the OECD Decentralised Programme on Educational Building (PEB), the Irish Ministry of Education and Science and the National University of Ireland (NUI), Galway, and was held in Galway, Ireland, in September 2002. Certain...

The Italian city of Cattolica has developed an urban complex, the <i>Piazza della Repubblica</i>, providing a wide range of services to the public. In renovated facilities, the complex provides a modern and rational architectural setting based on the idea of the traditional town square or "piazza", an...

In November 2000, the City of Bologna, Italy, welcomed a conference entitled “Living as Students”. The event was part of the European Capital of Culture project which examined the major role Bologna has played and continues to play as a university city. It also looked at the role of cities...

Un séminaire intitulé « Concevoir l'école de demain », organisé par le Programme décentralisé de l'OCDE pour la construction et l'équipement de l'éducation (PEB), le ministère irlandais de l'Éducation et de la Science ainsi que la <i>National University of Ireland</i> (NUI, Galway), a eu...

Cette future école flexible située à Milan (Italie) et axée sur la petite enfance est conçue de façon à favoriser le développement des enfants et tient compte des différentes façons dont ils appréhendent l’espace en fonction de leur âge. Les nouvelles installations comprendront non...

La ville italienne de Cattolica s'est dotée d'un complexe urbain, la <i>Piazza della Repubblica</i>, qui offre au public des services très divers. Dans des installations remises à neuf, le complexe présente un cadre architectural moderne et rationnel qui s'inspire de L'idée de la place de village...