Our aim is to break down barriers between disciplines and to bridge learning experiences within institutions, especially between schools, learning centres and museums. And we want to support and encourage those who work in educational spaces to go further with it.
WHO WE ARE
We are designers-architects-communicators-educators-researchers and thinkers who believe that architecture and design can encourage new relationships and attitudes towards the world by promoting more creative ways of learning.
OUR BELIEFS
WE BELIEVE THAT WE CAN REIMAGINE EDUCATION
That we can promote a more integrated, interdisciplinary and genuinely interactive – physical, mental and cultural – approach to learning processes, encouraging knowledge building and the development of social and cultural skills in a more meaningful way.
WE BELIEVE THAT WE NEED TO BREAK DOWN BARRIERS
We need to dissolve boundaries between disciplines.
We need to break down barriers in the educational system.
We need to reconnect schools, museums, learning and community centres.
WE BELIEVE WE SHALL NURTURE A NEW CULTURE OF LIFELONG LEARNING,
that will foster people's development towards a more comprehensive and inclusive approach to the world as well as a more positive and creative contribution to society.
OUR VALUES
We value an integrated and interdisciplinary approach to education.
We believe we need to awaken empathy to foster positive contribution to society.
We are grounded in the idea that learning should be playful
to spark and give space to imagination and creativity.
We are convinced that learning emerges only through the persistent iterative process of inquiry,
invention and re-invention that embraces risk and sees mistakes as “food for thought”.
Tatiana is the founder of CLE I Creative Learning Experiences, an organisation that develops design projects and runs creative learning after school clubs and workshops for schools and educational centres. These are designed to promote creativity and playful cross-curriculum learning experiences.
Prior to founding CLE, Tatiana has worked and collaborated with design offices
in São Paulo and New York. Until 2019 she was the director and manager of Entrespaço Design+Communication Studio. She carried out research, consulting and projects within the areas of design and architecture for companies and cultural and educational institutions.
From 2007 to 2019 she taught undergraduate and postgraduate design courses, as well as professional training workshops and programmes. And since 2020 she has been designing and facilitating activities for schools and families across the UK. She is also a STEM Ambassador in London and a freelance practitioner-educator at Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery.
Tatiana holds a BA degree in Architecture and Urbanism from the University of São Paulo I USP, along with a Masters and a PhD in Project, Space and Culture from the same institution. Her research is about the relationship between the architecture of learning environments and educational experiences. She is currently investigating entanglements between art, design and architecture education at UCL MA in Art Education, Culture and Practice.