Why should delegates come to the Mayfield keynote presentation?
23 Apr 2025
The mission of our Mayfielders?
to flip the script on how we design and measure learning environments,
and reimagine what success really looks like.
Simple: because it’s not just another presentation. It’s a provocation, a conversation starter, and a deep dive into the future of learning space design.
In this video, the Mayfielders - a powerhouse of 16 emerging educators, architects, designers and planners - gives you a glimpse into the questions driving their research:
🧩What makes a learning space truly work?
🧩How do we create ongoing feedback loops that actually influence design?
🧩How do we make sure the right voices are included, from concept to completion?
This isn’t about critiquing architecture after the fact.
It’s about shifting from “checklist” evaluation to a living, breathing process — one that keeps evolving as learning does.
Their keynote on Friday 9 May at LEA 3001: A Learning Space Odyssey will leave you with questions, tools, and inspiration to take back to your own practice - no matter your role in the learning environment ecosystem.
If you want to know more about the student experience, community voice, or redefining success in education spaces……this is the session you don’t want to miss.
Watch the clip, tag a colleague, and make a plan to be in the front row — your future self will thank you.
The Mayfield Project is LEA’s biennial research initiative for emerging professionals - a collective of 16 rising stars in education and design who’ve come together to challenge the status quo and reimagine what it means for a space to be successful.
2025 MAYFIELD PROJECT COHORT
- Agatha Partyka - Architect, Liminal Studio
- Alice Kulbat - Teacher, Yeronga State High School
- Alison Giancristofaro-Keswell - Architect, TRBC
- Aquila Azahari - Teacher, Teach for Malaysia
- Dominique Petterwood - Architect, Morrison & Breytenbach Architects
- Ella Camporeale - Teacher, Westminster School
- Georgia Antonioli - Project Officer, WA Department of Education
- Hannes McNamara - Architect, Musk Architecture
- Holly Caton - Architect, Munns Sly Moore
- Jaspreet Kaur - Architect, Architects of Transformation
- Jonathan Leatheam - Landscape Architect, Dunn Moran Landscape Architects
- Nick Batholomeaus - Architect, Swanbury Penglase
- Nicole Kirby - Architect, Law Architects
- Olivia McKim - Architect, Brand Architects
- Rachael Watson - Architect, Bickerton Masters
- Sarah Vanlaarhoven - Interior Designer/Architect - Design Inc
