The designers of our future built environment must possess intellectual tools which will allow them to be disciplined, flexible and analytical thinkers, able to address and resolve new and complex problems. In response, an experimental and collaborative design studio was designed to inspire and build on students' knowledge and their creative…

Discusses how an open door policy of an artist's workshop and school classrooms can facilitate connections between art and writing, reading, and science. Describes how classroom teachers receive memos detailing the workshop routine and observe the workshop while the art teacher observes classroom activities. Describes how a "Community of Teachers…