Stu, Stu, Studio

I too am wary of focusing our research and attentions fully on the classroom. I think this could be our main objective, how to improve this fundamental educational space, but it would also limit us to the details and fine-tuning of a classroom. Our time is limited and therefore I don't want to spend it focusing on the model of a classroom when this model may look fine and is presentable to a board, but would probably find its future in the back of a closet. I'm more interested in the fundamental ideas and theories needed in considering how space can be manipulated, if we would like to narrow this focus to space conducive to learning thats fine, but becoming extremely focused on creating the ideal classroom seems too specific. What about space in general? what type of lessons, moral, ethical, survival instincts, are nurtured by the space a person grows up in?
Perhaps this is simply where we split into two groups and can then present them as a whole and find how they interact or contradict each other.