About Conjectures

The Journal of Spatial Conjectures on Learning
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“It is imagination that saves us all from the obvious and the banal, from the ordinary aspects of life. Imagination transforms facts into conjecture.”
—Jerome S. Bruner

Conjectures is a digital journal for those curious about the connection between learning and the environments in which it unfolds.

We explore how spatial conditions shape cognitive, emotional, and social development. And how, in turn, learning might inform the way we design, inhabit, and reimagine space.

The journal brings together researchers, teachers, school leaders, designers, and scholars working at the intersection of developmental psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, spatial cognition, architecture, and education. Through short think pieces, long-form essays, interviews, and visual materials, we surface questions and patterns that reframe how we think about learning in context.

Highlights include:

• Vignettes, a curated series featuring favorite spatial images from educators, researchers, and designers

• Conversations, interviews with leading thinkers and practicing educators from schools around the world

• Visual essays, design provocations, and grounded reflections from classrooms, fieldwork, and studios

• Conjectures, speculative yet actionable design ideas with a defined claim and a proposed spatial construction. Inspired by Karl Popper’s framing of scientific knowledge, these “theories are not the digest of observations, but inventions—conjectures boldly put forward for trial.” We invite readers to engage with these conjectures. Challenge them. Expand them. Refute them. Help evolve them.