How people learn in rooms, on screens and around a table
Designed structure shapes possibility.
A room’s layout decides who can see whom. A screen’s defaults decide what gets done first. Rules, tools and systems shape what people notice and how they think in the same way.
I work across learning, technology, design and systems to understand those conditions, and sometimes to redesign them.
of learning
My work has moved from classrooms to schools, curriculum, digital platforms, learning environments and system-level questions.
The scale changes. The interest stays the same: how structures shape learning, thinking, behaviour and possibility.
- Learner
- Classroom
- School
- Curriculum
- Platform
- System
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Most people arrive in the middle, from a search or a link. These are the fastest ways in.
- IdeasHow people learnWhy the effort that feels like failure is often the effort that teaches.Explore learning
- IdeasHow spaces shape learningWho gets heard, who gets seen and what the room makes easy before anyone says a word.Explore learning spaces
- IdeasThinking in progressNotes, each recording one shift in how I read a problem and what transferred.Read the notes
- GuidesHow educational products are designedSix regions of judgement the work keeps asking for, each linked to the guides that teach it.Explore the craft map
- GuidesSomething useful on MondayShort, sourced guides you can keep open while you work.Browse guides
- PracticeHow systems changeThe Atlas & Loom framework: futuring, complexity and ways of thinking, for challenges that won’t hold still.Explore the framework
- LibrarySources worth keepingShelves of eight, each entry with a line from me on why it’s there.Browse the library
- AboutThe person behind the workTwenty years across classrooms, schools and platforms. Also mahjong, bridge and espresso.About Gerald
New here? Site structure explains how I see, how the site is made and how its pages connect.
Lately: user experience design, learning space design, interactive digital technologies and the Atlas & Loom framework. What’s on the desk