Specialist Architectural Practice
Deer Park Alpha are architects and designers based in Portsmouth. In the last year
we have designed and made an adventure playground, a balloon platform, a cafe, a
walking route to improve accessibility, an artist's studio in the forest, created
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We like to help people think for themselves, work together, take risks, challenge ingrained ideas and, when necessary, be up for trying things differently. One of the best ways to achieve this aim is to be involved in educating young people and working with teachers. We do this by showing people how to think like a designer. The six Personal Learning Thinking Skills chime with how a designer works, and all our projects through Creative Partnerships (CP) build on these core skills.
Our most successful CP projects to date have been those where staff and students have worked together with us to a solve a problem. Design is a problem solving exercise. A problem can be a social one, for example helping younger children with the transition into the junior school. It could also be practical problem with teaching a topic, for example helping students work out for themselves the principles of earthquake proof buildings.
To date our projects have been architecture and design based. We would like to carry on in the same vein but we also feel our professional skills and knowledge can be taken into subject areas less obviously linked to architecture and design. Recently we worked with a geography department where we used design thinking to help the students
discover concepts for themselves. Now we would like to see how design thinking can be applied in other areas. Chemistry? Physical Education? Radio Play? Bring it on!
We believe that in educating young people and showing teachers how we work, the process itself is as much an outcome as any physical product. It's about the way we work as much as what we do. Design is a core life skill that will continue to benefit children in all areas of their lives.
Creative Partnerships
Helping with creativity in teaching and education
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+44 (0) 23 92 87 74 19
ADDRESS
17 Pembroke Road, Portsmouth, PO1 2NT, UK
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