We Want a School! Lessons from Student Imagination in School Design Practice
This session reflects on the origins and evolution of "We Want a School!", a participatory design project developed with students during the 2020–2021 academic year. From the outset, the work was framed not as an activity or design exercise, but as a "provocation" in the Reggio Emilia sense, meant to open questions rather than produce predefined outcomes. Students were asked a simple question: what would your ideal school look like if you could imagine it freely? What emerged was not a set of design solutions, but recurring ideas about belonging, autonomy, care, and the everyday experience of school.
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