I believe in education. Education as a meeting between people and between people and a place. In my project, I want to look at a school as a home. The home of the children, the home of the neighborhood, and re-establish the status of the neighborhood as a manifestation of community, local and social values. In a country where both education and the place are in crisis, the search for an optimistic answer feels crucial. Two years ago my eldest daughter entered the first grade at the Shapira Neighborhood School. This is a school in south Tel Aviv that creates a real meeting between all types of population that make up the neighborhood (an old population mainly from the Bukhari community, religious and secular, migrant workers, refugees and asylum seekers and a young, new population following accelerated gentrification procedures). In the education method that the school advocates, 'place-based education' – the learning is not frontal, and the children leave the school premises and study around the neighborhood as well. The school seeks to allow the children to connect to the place where they grow up, physically, mentally and academically and to allow educational and social freedom within a complex urban, demographic structure. The project seeks to offer a planning and architectural alternative that creates a connection between the place and education – between the children and the teaching staff and the rest of the neighborhood community, while placing the local community and its environment at the center. Through a methodology of observations, interviews and conversations, public participation games and architectural planning, the project tries to create a house from the school – actually several houses, interwoven in the neighborhood and found in dialogue with it, thus turning the planning process into a joint process of the architect with the people and the place. The project varies between different scales and tries to embody the specific educational values in the design – from 'the wall that functions as a teacher', to the value of walking and movement around the school and neighborhood space.