Anne Cunningham
Education Projects Officer
The Lighthouse,
Scotland’s Centre for Architecture, Design and the City
anne@thelighthouse.co.uk
Education Projects Officer
The Lighthouse, Scotland’s Centre for Architecture, Design and the City
2004-Ongoing
‘Design for 21st Century Learning’ project co-ordinator
2001- Ongoing
Professional Development Officer, The Lighthouse
Teacher training programme.
Creative Education Consultant :
Project and Resource Development/ Workshop Design and Delivery
2001-2003
Consultant and Lecturer: National Galleries of Scotland
2002
Consultant: Talbot Rice Gallery/ Radge Youth Theatre
2002
Consultant for ‘Create’ web site: Youthlink Scotland
2001
Gallery Manager, Stills Gallery, Edinburgh
2001
Consultant for publication on National Debate for
Education from consortia of Scottish Museums/ Galleries
Previous Employment
2000-2001
Community and Family Education Officer
Sheffield Galleries and Museums Trust
1999
Curatorial Researcher
P/t
Talbot Rice Gallery
1999
Assistant to Director and Curator
P/t
Paintings in Hospitals Scotland
1999-2000
Volunteer Trainer
sessional
Health Projects Abroad, Tanzania
Education
2001-2003
1994-1998
MA Museums and Galleries in Education
Institute of Education, London
MA History of Art
University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh
Voluntary Experience:
Workshop Delivery/ Project Co-ordination/Community Development
Health Projects Abroad, Tanzania. Craigmillar Arts Project, Edinburgh.
Beltane Fire Society, Edinburgh. Sinai Environmental Project, Egypt.
Museums of Womens Art, London. Tate Gallery, London. Inverleith House,
Edinburgh.
Future Learning and Teaching: Design for Learning, 21st Century
Schools
Funded by Scottish Executive.
The project is a programme to help generate ideas for buildings which will inspire and motivate
teachers and pupils to maximise their individual and collective educational potential. The project aims
to generate and implement new ideas about the way in which we might build, renovate and use school
buildings in order to raise educational achievement, promote sustainable development and support a
culture of lifelong learning and local communities. The programme builds on the "Sustainable
Schools Project" funded by the FLaT Programme which explored new design scenarios for school
buildings through a workshop based model, centred on live projects for new schools, with
collaboration between local authorities, international and local design professionals, teachers and
young people. A booklet and CD-ROM produced by The Lighthouse is now disseminating the
lessons learned from the workshops. The "Sustainable Schools Project" can be viewed as a starting
point for a much longer and sustained examination of the issues that will affect school design over the
coming years.
We live in an era of rapidly accelerating social, economic and technical change, and there is a great
deal of uncertainty about the way in which our education system will develop in order to meet the
demands of living in a knowledge society. Our schools, and particularly our new schools, need to be
ready to adapt and respond to a number of key drivers for change such as the impact of ICT;
curriculum development; new ways of learning and teaching; accessibility and the opening up of
schools for greater community use. This programme will help to ensure that The Executive's
unprecedented level of investment in new school building delivers high-quality, inspiring and welldesigned learning and teaching environments.
In order to consider the context for schooling in the years ahead, three overarching questions will be
addressed:-
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what kind of schools do we want for the future ?
what should go on inside schools?
what spaces do we need in schools?