Episode 14 - Safe Schools by Design with Barry Svigals

How might we design schools that delight children, inspire learning, and nurture community? Violence of all kinds has created a world of fear and trauma, especially when coupled with the mass anxiety that has been such a part of our experience of 2020. In this episode, Louka speaks with Barry Svigals, and award-winning architect, artist, educator and designer, and recently the School Safety Fellow at the Stanford d.school. Svigals trained as an architect at the Yale School of Architecture, and also studied sculpture at the Ecole Nationale Superiere in Paris. Encompassing a wide range of clients, his firm’s architectural designs include projects for Yale University, Boston College and the University of Connecticut, as well as numerous public schools, including most recently, the new elementary school for Sandy Hook a community rocked by a tragic school shooting in 2012. Join us for a discussion on how we create collective spaces that create safety, learning and wellbeing, by design.