Description
School as a Service (SaaS), a social innovation, started its operation in 2016 and now includes three new municipal upper secondary schools and an elementary school in Otaniemi area, Espoo, Finland. The practice is based on shared spaces and activities between the schools and Aalto University on the university campus. A school becomes a service, not only a physical place.Various locations at the premises of the university are shared with schools such as physics and chemistry laboratories, learning centre and sports and art facilities. The schoolchildren have become active members of the city and the society. Reciprocally, the university campus have become more diverse and lively and also some of the study courses of the university are open to school pupils and the schools let the university personnel use their advanced learning technologies and provide pedagogical training. SaaS pursues a service dominant logic, bringing new contents to learning, transforming school towards a platform for social learning, developing new spatial practices supporting motivated learning, pursuing learning everywhere and the joy of learning. New design includes the areal school system, renovations of existing buildings for the schools’ home bases, landscaping and programming of university premises for shared use with the schools. In addition, the first SaaS school, Haukilahti upper secondary school, was also an exercise in the design of impermanent uses.
Characteristics of SaaS:
• Rapid implementation
• Flexible resource network
• Lower environmental effect
• Lower investment cost
• Increases areal prosperity
• Service centered
The project is a collaboration between the Department of Architecture at Aalto University, Aalto University Campus and Real Estate and The City of Espoo, and has been supported by the Finnish MInistry of Education and European Commission Creative Europe Programme. The project started with a collaboration between Aalto’s architecture and interior design students with the students of The Royal College of Art, London.
Period | 26 Sept 2019 |
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Held at | Human City Design Award, Korea, Republic of |
Degree of Recognition | International |
Keywords
- design
- architecture
- social sustainability
- sustainability
Documents & Links
Related content
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Activities
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Human City Design Workshop (Event)
Activity: Memberships (typically long-term positions of trust) › Membership of a competition jury
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Presentation in the Messukeskus Expo and Convention Centre
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited academic talk
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Keynote, School as a Service, education beyond e-platforms
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Academic keynote or plenary lecture
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Radical Design Week, Espoo workshop, School as a Service, Finland
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Conference presentation
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Lecture in the 5th Silesian Science Festival, Katowice, Poland.
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited academic talk
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School as a Service workshop, Espoo, Lontoo, aalto University, Royal College of Art, Iso Britannia
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Conference presentation
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Presentation in Laine experimental school in Otaniemi
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited academic talk
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School as a Service project
Activity: Other activity types › Other expert tasks or merit
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Rethinking campuses and schools / School as a Service
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Conference presentation
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Lecture in the 5th Silesian Science Festival, Katowice, Poland.
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited academic talk
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Prizes
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Mayors Award for Innovation
Prize: Award or honor granted for a specific work
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Human City Design Award
Prize: Award or honor granted for a specific work
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Research output
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School as a Service (SaaS): Reinvented Places to Meet and Share: New European Bauhaus: Overview of Examples
Research output: Other contribution › Professional
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School as a Service
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Professional
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Impacts
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Aalto MIT City Science Project 2017-2020
Impact: !!Social impacts, Cultural impacts, Economic impacts, Public policy impacts, Quality of life impacts, Other impacts