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Click here for latest wins by FNI including projects in Brunei, Tanzania, Oman and Texas.

Tomorrow’s School – Beyond Yesterday’s Classroom
Check out these inspiring images of 21st century schools compiled by Prakash Nair

“Exploring Six Principles of Sustainable School Design” – Randy Fielding for WISE

First two of 100 schools Master Planned and Designed by FNI opens in Puerto Rico

FNI Selected by Nationally Acclaimed American School of Bombay, India

FNI Selected by Prestigious Al-Batinah International School, Oman

FNI Selected as Master Planners for Cleveland-Heights-University Heights School District in Ohio

FNI Selected as Planners and Design Architects for STEAM Middle School in Greenville, S. Carolina

FNI Completes Visioning Work for School Districts in Montana and Ontario

EXCITING NEW PROJECT WINS BY FNI!

FNI selected by Bloomfield Hills Schools (MI) to lead the community through Facilitation, Planning and Design for their New High School.

Prakash Nair Featured in “Education World Magazine” for his Dedication in Transforming India’s Education Landscape

FNI’s Senior Designer, Mariana Boctor, featured in “Cocotte Design”: Designing the NextGen Schools — Just Like Home

FNI Appointed as Master Planners for $800 Million Puerto Rico School Modernization Program

FNI Projects Win Two International Awards

FNI’s innovative approach to school design featured in North American Design Magazine

FNI’s Arcola Community School design featured in Regina Leader-Post.

FNI Selected to serve as Planning and Design Consultant for TJHSST – America’s #1 High School.

Fully Revised 2nd Edition of Language of School Design is now available.

Sinarmas World Academy by FNI Awarded Prestigious Project of Distinction Award in Washington DC.

FNI to partner with India’s Yash Birla Group in a venture that will develop 300+ new schools

Designing Schools for 21st Century Learners
In this film, architect Randall Fielding demonstrates the connection between where and how students learn in the 21st century.

Don’t Just Rebuild Schools—Reinvent Them
“If we simply repair broken structures, we will ignore the real problems with American education while giving renewed life to a model of teaching and learning that has been obsolete since the end of the industrial era.”.

FNI’s Scotch Oakburn College Middle School Project in Launceston, Tasmania has Opened. Details

Randy Fielding interviewed Phorecast: “We need to teach our kids skills, not subjects!” Click here to listen to podcast

End-of-Year News: Several Exciting New Project Wins in Canada, USA, Malaysia and Abu Dhabi. Details

Mid-Year News Update: New projects, EFEI launch and publications. Details

The Cristo Rey Jesuit High School & Colin Powell Youth Leadership Center has been awarded. Details

Randall Fielding awarded CEFPI International Planner of the Year Details

Microsoft Taps FNI For Key Role in Global Innovative Schools Program Details

Cristo Rey Jesuit High School and Colin Powell Youth Leadership Center in operation in Minneapolis. Details

Health and Fitness Centre Opens at Scotch Oakburn College. Details

Groundbreakings on Cayman Islands.Details

A Comfortable Truth – 8 Truths about Comfort in Schools. Click here for link to new article.

FNI Adds several new consultants and expands service offerings.
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Building Futures – Video Interview with Prakash Nair
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Randall Fielding Interviewed on Charlotte Radio
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Randy Fielding interviewed on WCCO radio: “Human Rights and Design for Learning”
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New Project Wins
in 7 American states, and 6 countries. Details

The Language of School Design – New book by Nair and Fielding.
Available Now

Fielding Returns from Sri Lanka and Heads to Azerbaijan and Australia Details

Dr. Lackney criss-crosses land to lead design efforts on behalf of FNIDetails

Nair’s Latest trip covers 5 Australian States, Thailand and Singapore Details

Nair Returns from Planning & Design Consultation Workshops in 4 Australian States and Singapore Details

Nair in Australia – Nair to Keynote Australian Conference in April 2005. Details

Fielding in Singapore and Australia Details

Nair in Alaska Details

Fielding at NAF – Randy Fielding addresses National Audience at NAF Conference in New York. Details

Better Schools for Ohio – State of Ohio hires FNI to conduct detailed study of school designs. Details

FNI Wins MacConnell Award – Reece School in Tasmania Australia by FNI is MacConnell Award winner! Details

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Big Picture Videos

SCHOOL 2.0 — Designing Tomorrow’s Schools

This video shows how old and outdated school buildings can be brought back to life inexpensively to meet the needs of 21st Century learners.
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21st Century Learning in Action — PK Yonge School — Florida [9:45]

Fielding Nair International — Master Planner and Design Architect
This video demonstrates in a compelling way why effective teaching and learning needs effectively designed school buildings. Also, please see the PK Yonge slide show on our PROJECTS PAGE for the process followed by FNI that led to the innovative design.

Short Version 21st Century Learning in Action — PK Yonge School — Florida [1:47]

Fielding Nair International — Master Planner and Design Architect

Anne Frank Inspire Academy — The Learning Building

One of FNI’s new schools, Anne Frank Inspire Academy, is opening next fall in San Antonio. This highly innovative campus contains 21st Century learning spaces and a curriculum to match. See Randall Fielding, Prakash Nair and Isaac Williams narrate this exciting school’s layout and philosophy.

Designing Schools for 21st Century Learning: An Interview with Randall Fielding by the Pearson Foundation and The Mobile Learning Institute

Creative Age Elementary Schools

Two new public elementary schools in Medford Oregon have been designed by FNI for 21st century learning. The central school commons and the learning community model promote the plurality of learning modalities students need to succeed in our global community.

A Middle School Learning Community Is Born!

How with the help of FNI, Poughkeepsie Day School took four classrooms and a corridor and created a contemporary learning space for the middle school in the summer of 2012.

Design for the Creative Age

Video Interview with Prakash Nair

The following interview with Prakash Nair was recorded during a consultancy with the Victorian Department of Education and Early Childhood Development:

CUSP 2010 Randy Fielding

Randy Fielding is taking architecture back to school.

SCHOOL 2.0 — Designing Tomorrow’s Schools. Short Version (7 mins):

Prakash Nair answers the question, “What is the Purpose of Schooling?” during a panel discussion hosted by the Franklin Institute at Educon:

“The Future of Education” – Prakash Nair is featured in a documentary by the Victoria, Australia Dept. of Education

Randy Fielding interviewed on WCCO radio: “Human Rights and Design for Learning”

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Randall Fielding Interviewed on Charlotte Radio

The American Institute of Architects had a symposium in late September 2006 to improve the quality of schools in Charlotte. Randy is interviewed along with Harvey Gantt, former Charlotte Mayor.
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Process Videos

Design Patterns

Randall Fielding of Fielding Nair International leads a curriculum mapping workshop at the 2010 CEFPI conference in San Jose.

The FNI Design Team “Extending the Vision” in North Central, Regina, Saskatchewan

“Learning Modalities” – This video is part of a workshop given to a diverse group of stakeholders in the School District of Regina, Saskatchewan

The FNI Design Team meets with a group of 1st Nations and Meti Elders in Regina, Saskatchewan


Events Videos

“Learning by Design in the Creative Age” – Prakash Nair presents in Mumbai, India in May of 2010:

Prakash Nair’s presentation to the community of Key Biscayne on “Best Practices in Education and Facilities Design for the 21st Century”

Prakash Nair and Tasmanian Premier, Jim Bacon, at Reece High School’s Opening Ceremony:

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