Residents of Hohenlohe presented the Steinmühle with the MINTSPACE School Award

Here at Steinmühle, we’re incredibly proud of our many, many awards—and yesterday we added yet another one to the list: As part of an event organized by Hohenloher, experts in learning spaces for tomorrow’s STEM education, we received the MINTSPACE School Award from the regional chapter of Jugend forscht during the “School of the Future—Pedagogy Meets Space” event.

The award, sponsored by the Hohenloher Academy, is presented to an innovative school by an independent “Jugend forscht” jury at each regional “Jugend forscht” competition. Dr. Dr. Dierk Suhr, Head of Education and the Hohenloher Academy, together with his colleague Guido Jäger, presented the award to Björn Gemmer, principal of Steinmühlen School.

 

The Impact of Interior Design on Learning

What role does interior design play in learning? How do pedagogy and architecture interact? These and other questions were answered at the event at the Steinmühle by experts who had traveled there or who work at the Steinmühle anyway.

 

On Educational Architecture

Principal Björn Gemmer outlined the child-centered educational vision, while Malte Klimczak, Tobias Karlein, and Björn Wagner from Steinmühle’s digitalization team explained the hardware, platforms, and instructional concepts for fostering a culture of digital literacy.

Katja Wagner-Grebe of Oesterle Architekten presented educational architecture and spatial concepts.

Dr. Dr. Dierk Suhr, a scholar of the natural and human sciences, spoke about “Space as the Third Educator.”

 

“A Successful School of the Future”

Afterward, during a guided tour that included a visit to the Steinmühle Bilingual Elementary School, the participants were able to see for themselves how these individual components fit together harmoniously at Steinmühle—“…and truly form a successful ‘school of the future,’ ” Suhr praised.