A values-driven wayfinding system for global learners.
In collaboration with interior architecture practice Tom Mark Henry, we were commissioned to design and develop a system of signage and wayfinding for a new Academy of Global Competency at Sydney’s Knox Grammar School. The academy’s aim was to present a unique and progressive approach to both its physical learning environment and its educational program, seeking to promote innovative ways of enabling young students to become adaptive, creative, and engaged global citizens in the face of an increasingly varied and uncertain global future.
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In addition to giving a practical physical expression to these intentions we were also asked to incorporate the schools core values into the space. In doing so, we developed a series of applied signage centred around an overarching identity for the academy beginning with the sites geolocation. Taking this information, we created a mark, followed by an academy flag, to signal the intention of the project. Each of the five constituent pieces of the flag then came to represent one of the five core school values which were then used independently in a series of playful typographic murals throughout the space. Simultaneously we incorporated a series of both physically and digitally interactive signage, including a manual letter-board, providing students a platform for expression in the space, a tactile multi-use cylinder wall pixel grid, and functional flip dot display boards, allowing student input via curriculum relevant programming languages.
