KNIVSTA COMMUNITY LEARNING CAMPUS

The Knivsta Community Learning Campus explores the potential for programmatic deterritorialization to create an inclusive educational landscape of intergenerational, intercultural, and transdisciplinary exchange. By combining a technical high school (Tekniska Gymnasium) and a community centre, we sought to interweave new spatial relationships. New community connections could form across the unexpected pairings, juxtapositions and sharing of a radically hybrid, trans-disciplinary, mixed-use campus.

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Instead of isolated departments, traditional classrooms and lecture-based teaching, the Learning Campus supports new forms of educational exploration throughout a mix of interconnected spaces. The campus strives to foster a sense of belonging where students take ownership of their education through hands-on project-focused learning and transdisciplinary collaboration. Typical departmental groupings have been redistributed into a trio of buildings, each offering a different typological experiment in circulation armatures, programmatic juxtapositions and relationships to the forested hill. 

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The Knivsta Community Learning Campus proposes a democratic experiment in building new collective freedoms and possibilities by interweaving a shared social and natural landscape. Programmatic deterritorialization can help foster educational experiences and pedagogies that celebrate wandering exploration and collaboration. An inclusive social infrastructure can be intimately embedded within Knivsta’s forested hills and build new connections throughout this rapidly evolving community.