i. Learning as a network, but what holds it together?

from mingmingtan | 2025 selected works

ii. when modern technology sustains us, too long, too painful, when should we stop?

Learning is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

The Pinnacle of a Triangle.

MAPPING: An overlay mapping of surrounding geographical, transportation and figure-ground conditions.

A triangle. A contradiction. A rural town wedged between a technology park and an expanding city. AI, online teaching, customised curriculum, what do we learn when all knowledge is at our fingertips?

A study.

STUDY. An investigation in spaces for learning.

A study in traditional and digital learning spaces shows the previous to be a grid, the latter a web.

At the hinge between past and future, let us rebuild the haven of a school —not as a system, but as a synthesis. We begin, by housing a web in a grid.

Fractured Nature.

STUDY: A rich nature, surrounding the site, split by manmade infrastructure.

The fragmentation of nature in the site is a mirror of our current situation in modern society. Technology, infrastructure, they speed us along, but cause us to be increasingly cut off from the real, phenomenal world.

We drift.

A Web of Encounters.

When learning moves beyond the textbook, what anchors us? This project asks: Can a building still hold wonder? Can it give children the autonomy of a digital age while offering the grounding of place? Can it be both soft and robust, structured and unbounded?

Let this be the first stage: a space where curiosity is not constrained by the walls, but held gently within them.