Well-Being and School Life
The “school climate” includes both social and physical aspects of school life and can affect positively (or not) behavior, achievements, and cultural development. The school environment has attracted great attention from architecture, but perhaps the overall well-being of the students has taken second place to educational needs. As in all work environments, to which the school can be partially compared, we need to overcome the concept of well-being as an instrumental element to the best performance of people, in favor of a holistic conception that tends to a better quality of life (which also influences some profitability). This chapter reports and comments on the results of a survey carried out on two different school complexes (with students aged between 11 and 14 years) in the Turin metropolitan area, where different socio-economic and cultural conditions are represented. The questionnaire submitted to the students is articulated according to different requirements of well-being: functional, social, psychological, ergonomic, aesthetic, sensorial, and connection with the context.