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Spex is used by S1 pupils to design rooms and other places. They can drag items of pre-made furniture into a room, arrange the layout, colour scheme etc, and view it in the bird's eye view or in 3D; budgets, graphs etc are also included in the software.

One of the main reasons for the popularity of Spex with S1 pupils has been its simple style. Spex is also very flexible with no predetermined outcomes which means pupils use their imagination and initiative to make their own decisions and produce their own individual result.

Spex is not just a room designer though, rather, the room design aspect of Spex is a cover story to get pupils to grapple with design, spatial awareness, money, budgets and dimensions and much more.

All this learning is happening while S1 pupils are just having fun designing their favourite bedrooms and lots of other places.

 

Happily SPEX is compatible with most software packages. The work below shows SPEX room designs imported into the Desk Top Publishing program Microsoft Publisher.  The S1 pupils then have to design an advertising poster for their businesses with all the appropriate details included.