Talking Early Years: June O'Sullivan and Jen Singer

A Right to be Children: The Importance of the Design Architecture

The importance of architecture to Early Years is often misunderstood. The building is part of the enabling environment and needs to be designed to support learning by creating the right environment and resources both indoors and outside. They are also integral to meeting the sustainability pillars; economic, social and environments in their design for example where they are situated, and how they support local communities and the local biodiversity. Nowadays, people are thinking even more about the towns and cities, the city of play and how to make them child friendly and position schools and nurseries as community catalysts.

If you are interested in design and want to understand why it matters and how we need a strong relationship with architects, then listen here.