School construction or renovation project repeatedly surprises teachers, principals and the education department with its speed, budget discipline and emphasis on construction technology. The tendering professionals want to bring the tendering project to a solution quickly so that construction can begin.

Anticipation and future thinking shines through its absence.

The future, where new schools will be built or repaired, is not yet through sufficiently precisely. Pedagogical trends, the rapid development of technology, didactic changes and future curriculum changes are very often overlooked.

Such a rush may even be an obstacle to the well-being of students and teachers in the new facilities, and they are also expensive for the municipality to repair.

Operating culture

The project surveyed municipalities in the area where school building or renovation projects are about to start in the next few years. With the help of experts, we encourage participants to search for and develop connections between the school's operating culture and learning environments as a whole, as well as increase pedagogical planning readiness for future school building projects and evaluate the functionality, innovativeness and safety of the plans.

Recently, a lot has been written and discussed about the differences between schools, the unevenly distributed good management culture and the different skills and willingness of teachers to teach. All of this is a reflection of the operating culture of the school and its nearby community.

For the problems described above, such training, which knows how to utilize the principles of design thinking and uses future thinking in a down-to-earth and concrete way, is of great benefit according to research and our own experiences.

When the process, described above, is connected to a school building project or other overall development of learning environments, the result in the development of the operating culture is even better and we are well on our way to the operating culture of a learning community.