{"id":2526,"date":"2021-07-26T01:37:42","date_gmt":"2021-07-26T01:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silverpi.com\/blog\/?p=2526"},"modified":"2021-07-26T01:37:42","modified_gmt":"2021-07-26T01:37:42","slug":"3d-printed-schools-a-world-economic-forum-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silverpi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2021\/07\/26\/3d-printed-schools-a-world-economic-forum-article\/","title":{"rendered":"3D-Printed Schools – a World Economic Forum article"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A large part of the cost of education in the developing world is due to the physical infrastructure – literally the bricks and mortar. Standardized construction methods that scale would bring down this cost to a large extent.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The developing world has a dire shortage of schools – the classroom space. With the traditional construction methods, the cost and time required make it almost impossible to meet these needs in a meaningful timeframe. 14Trees<\/a>, a Swiss-British organization ‘dedicated to accelerating the provision of affordable construction’ is working on 3D-printing of buildings to solve this problem. World Economic Forum has published an article about an initiative that uses this approach for building schools in Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A large part of the cost of education in the developing world is due to the physical infrastructure – literally the bricks and mortar. Standardized construction methods that scale would bring down this cost to a large extent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another key benefit this could bring is in terms of the school’s practices. The philosophy of a school should also reflect in its physical infrastructure. Tomoe gakuen,<\/em> the school that transformed Totto chan’s<\/a> life in the early post-war Japan was a repurposed train car. Things like the classroom size, layout, access and open spaces define and decide the learning at the school. Standardized construction could also serve as a checklist to make sure that the best practices of learning are baked into these schools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shall we say we are probably at a Gutenberg moment <\/em>in Education…?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

References<\/strong>
Kuroyanagi, Tetsuko, and Chichiro Iwasaki. Totto Chan: the Little Girl at the Window<\/em>. Kodansha America, Inc, 2012.


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Read the full Report at the World Economic Forum site<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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A large part of the cost of education in the developing world is due to the physical infrastructure – literally the bricks and mortar. Standardized construction methods that scale would bring down this cost to a large extent. The developing world has a dire shortage of schools – the classroom space. With the traditional construction…<\/p>\n

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