With complex, sensory stimulation and complex challenges that offer feedback, brains can grow new connections at any age. Rich, stimulating environments allow students to create their own space. Establishing group places facilitates social learning. Links between indoors and outside permit movement and oxygenation. Creating symbols of purpose in public places provides coherence and meaning that boost motivation.
Safe places reduce feelings of threat.
The brain is stimulated by moving through places that vary in shape, color, and light. Environments or displays which change also provide brain stimulation. Ideas develop more rapidly in areas where needed resources are clustered. Flexibility of space is important. Students need distinct places where they can be active or passive, as well as personalized space.