Schools, in motion — see what learning environments actually look like.
Films and documentary tours of schools around the world, with designs led by members of the EDI team. Watch teachers, students, and leaders use the spaces — and hear how design changes what’s possible in a school day.
Six schools, six portraits of learning.
Recent documentary tours from EDI projects across India, Belgium, the United States, and Canada. Each film offers a different window into how purpose-built learning environments shape a school’s culture and pedagogy.
A walk through one of South Asia's most ambitious learning environments — flexible studios, maker spaces, and outdoor classrooms reimagined for an international community.
Inside an early-childhood campus designed around how young children actually learn: through movement, nature, and choice.
How a long-established international school transformed its facilities to support contemporary, student-centered learning.
The MacConnell Award-winning middle school where STEAM is not a program but a building.
An elementary learning community in action — small groups, shared commons, and teachers working as teams.
A K-8 community school in Vancouver designed to dissolve the line between learning studios and commons.
More films, talks, and school tours.
A library of earlier films — TEDx talks, Harvard EdX lectures, project documentaries, and animated fly-throughs — drawn from two decades of EDI’s work with schools around the world.
An introduction to EDI's approach — the studio's philosophy, methodology, and the schools that have come from it.
Prakash Nair on the question every school design conversation should begin with.
A TEDx talk on why classrooms — as we built them — are now the wrong tool for the job.
Tampa Bay's Morning Blend sits down with North Tampa Christian Academy and EDI to discuss the new campus.
An animated walkthrough of the North Tampa Christian Academy campus design.
A documentary look at how SAS reorganized teaching and space around the learning-community model.
A short film on the transition from the industrial classroom to genuine learning communities.
A conversation between Prakash Nair and Prof. Richard Elmore of Harvard at the Gogya Teacher Academy in Israel.
Prakash Nair leads the Discovery Process — the structured visioning workshop EDI uses to begin a project.
Prakash Nair traces how American school architecture got to where it is — and where it should go next.
A conversation about how the built environment shapes — and constrains — the future of education.
A look at master planning at Hilton Head Christian Academy with Fielding Nair International.
Student-centered learning spaces by FNI at Strathcona-Tweedsmuir School in Canada.
Harvard EdX with Prakash Nair on the pedagogical shift behind modern school design.
What changes for teachers when a school moves from classrooms to learning communities.
A documentary on VEGA School in New Delhi — a campus designed to draw out the unique potential of every child.
The renovation of the Early Childhood Center at Col·legi Montserrat in Barcelona, Spain.
Students give a tour of the renovated campus at the International School of Düsseldorf.
A second student-led tour focused on the senior school at ISD.