This book introduces a new wellbeing dimension to the theory and practice of learning space
design for early childhood and school contexts. It highlights vital yet generally overlooked
relationships between the learning environment and student learning and wellbeing and reveals
the potential of participatory values-based design approaches to create learning spaces that
respond to contemporary learners' needs. Focusing on three main themes it explores conceptual
understandings of learning spaces and wellbeing students' lived experience and needs of
learning spaces and the development of a new theory and its practical application to the
design of learning spaces that enhance student wellbeing. It examines these complex and
interwoven topics through various theoretical lenses and provides an extensive current
literature review that connects learning environment design and learner wellbeing in a wide
range of educational settings from early years to secondary school. Offering transferable
approaches and a new theoretical model of wellbeing as flourishing to support the design of
innovative learning environments this book is of interest to researchers tertiary educators
and students in the education and design fields as well as school administrators and facility
managers teachers architects and designers.
