Designing for the Predictive Brain: FOBISIA Early Years Conference

Environments speak. What are our classrooms and enviorments telling children? That question took Winsy Flores to Bangkok on behalf of Rocket Productions, where FOBISIA, the Federation of British International Schools in Asia, invited her to speak and run a workshop at its Early Years Conference, hosted by King’s College Bangkok. Across two inspiring days focused on inclusion and child-centred practice, we shared how our Learning Engineers have been exploring research on the predictive brain alongside the design of learning environments: how the spaces and materials we curate shape what children notice, where their attention goes and whether a room feels navigable. The workshop also explored wonder and creative health as conditions for curiosity and intellectual risk. 

Educators from international schools across the region brought their own contexts to the table, and we came home inspired with new reading, including Dr Aaron Bradbury’s work on the Child in the Now.