Earth
Stability and relationship with material life.
The learning environment
Physical space
The environment is critical in building an Integral School. Architecture has a direct impact on the personality and psyche of everyone who inhabits it.
The space participates
The psychological elements of an environment are inseparable from the physical.
Classrooms extend outdoors. Recycling areas, frog ponds, kitchen gardens, solar kitchens, learning spaces and outdoor laboratories form a learning matrix—a learn-scape.
Nature has the capacity to nurture.
The outdoor environment
Mud Hill
Earth, texture, slope and open sky bring the physical landscape into the experience of learning.
Five universal elements
Nature as educator
Space
Freedom, openness and possibility.
Air
Movement, mobility and exchange.
Fire
Illumination, knowledge and power.
Water
Flexibility, fluidity and creativity.