La scuola allo specchio / School in the mirror

The architecture of the school as a topical issue, in relation to the pandemic modalities of distance education, comes up again in all its urgency. The inadequacy of school facilities seems to challenge established spatial concepts; even the classroom model as the primary element appears inadequate. There also emerges the need to systematize educational spaces in a broad sense by multiplying their relationships; this arises as a discriminating factor for the management of public resources on the one hand, and for the prefiguration of a flexible system capable of gathering the most current cultural and pedagogical instances on the other. At the spatial level, what would seem to be most challenged is precisely the traditionally defined relationship between individual and collective spaces, ex-cathedra moments and workshop moments. Starting from these issues, the students carried out their design experiments.