Flying school. Transportable temporary spaces for learning

The binding relationship between the traditional physical place devoted to education, the classroom, and the performance of this function has long been called into question. A growing number of capillary diffused educational experiences attempt to take the "school out of school" and seek for spaces and opportunities that suit increasingly engaging and stimulating methods for teaching and learning. The pandemic emergency we are currently experiencing let us believe that a new way of conceiving the relationship between space and learning action is more urgent than ever. Our research investigates this topic through two keywords: “temporariness” and “transportability”. “School Wheel” (design Atelier Bow-Wow, Busan 2006), “Classroom of the Future” (design Gollifer Langston architects, London 2008) and “Portable Classroom Concept” (design Studio Jantzen, 2012) are some of the examples that this contribution intends to investigate, highlighting their common features, possible criticalities and outcomes, in order to verify how the educational action associated with a mobile, flexible and light space can contribute to the spread of new ways of learning and new cultural and educational ideas.