Adaptable STEM room

Po Leung Kuk Castar Primary School

Project data

School Po Leung Kuk CASTAR Primary School (CASTAR)

Completion January 2020

POE Sep 2020 – Aug 2021

Area 87m²

Collaborator Jimmy Ho

Team Faye Choi, Claudia Chan

Images Jimmy Ho

Online media

Jockey Club Positive Education “Ascend and Radiate” Project ■ ■

Publications

Ho, T-W., Chung, T. & Lee, S-L. (2020) “Co-Creating Outdoor Architectural Design Strategies for well-being in a Hong Kong Primary School” in Proceedings of Experiential Design – Rethinking relations between people, objects and environments, AMPS Conference. Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida: 16-17 January 2020. ■ ■

The new multi-purpose STEM room for Po Leung Kuk CASTAR Primary School (CASTAR) fulfills the school’s distinctive place-making needs. Our design explored the principle of adaptability to support various special learning tasks for STEM, including implementing inquiry-based instructional strategies as well as the development of a positive attitude.

The project is part of a larger research collaborating with the Faculty of Social Science, CUHK to develop a systematic process to co-create school environments that support positive learning and promote student well-being. Through action design research in campus renovation projects, the aim is to identify viable design strategies and construct operational prototypes that promote positive education in typical school settings.

typical classroom

old computer lab

The new multi-purpose STEM room for Po Leung Kuk CASTAR Primary School (CASTAR) fulfills the school’s distinctive place-making needs. Our design explored the principle of adaptability to support various special learning tasks for STEM, including implementing inquiry-based instructional strategies as well as the development of a positive attitude.

The project is part of a larger research collaborating with the Faculty of Social Science, CUHK to develop a systematic process to co-create school environments that support positive learning and promote student well-being. Through action design research in campus renovation projects, the aim is to identify viable design strategies and construct operational prototypes that promote positive education in typical school settings.

▪ This design research is partially supported by the Place-making component of the Jockey Club Positive Education “Ascend and Radiate” Project (JC-PEAR) by the Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust (02/2019 to 01/2020). We would also like to acknowledge Professor Chi-yue Chiu and his team at CUHK and Po Leung Kuk Castar Primary School for their active participation in this research.