About

A facility is a place or space devoted to doing an activity, for example a gymnasium is a facility for gymnastic training and physical exercise. Our communities are full of facilities that we use to go about our daily lives. There are banks, shops, shopping malls, sports fields, community centres, clubhouses, and so forth. Schools have facilities such as classrooms, auditoriums, canteens, laboratories, and so forth. Facilities have the space needed, and they house the equipment and materials to be used, for the activities that will take place within.
 

Your task

Design a facility for your school. Choose a facility within your school that you would like to design, it may be any learning, or leisure facility of the school. The school facility may be a classroom, a laboratory, a gymnasium, as you wish. Your design concept for the school facility must cater to the activities within, and enhance them, where feasible. Build a small-scale model to demonstrate your school facility. Work on this project in a small team with a group of your classmates.
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The design thinking stages

Follow the five design thinking stages to ensure that you think of everything and do everything necessary in order to succeed in your design project. First, you must UNDERSTAND the design topic and the needs of the users. With that understanding, you can DECIDE what is important to your design solution and what is not so important. Then you CREATE to come up with ideas and improve them. Then you BUILD your chosen design idea in a physical form and improve it through trial-and-error. Finally, you TEST your built design idea to get the opinions of users. Use the methods from the Design Thinking for Schools website as you follow the design thinking stages.
 

Note for teachers

​​​​​​​Read the guide for teachers on Safety for the BUILD Stage for Level III to safely supervise this design project.​​​​​