MEET THE SPEAKERS
The People Shaping the Conversation Around Learning
We spend years thinking about what children should learn.
But perhaps we need to spend more time asking:
How does the environment around them shape the experience of learning?
What changes when architecture stops simply housing learning and starts actively supporting it?
At PULSE 2026 | Where Culture Meets Learning, we bring this question into the room through educators, architects, designers, researchers and school leaders exploring the future of learning environments.
One of those perspectives comes from Denis Fujii.
Meet Denis Fujii
Architect. Designer. Learning-space thinker.
Denis Fujii is an architect and founder of DLUX, an architecture studio specialising in innovative learning environments.
With over a decade of experience creating educational spaces across Brazil and internationally, Denis explores how architecture can influence the way people learn, interact and develop.
But his work doesn’t sit within architecture alone.
He is also involved with:
MONO — focused on educational furniture
BAYA Creative Learning — focused on creativity, STEAM education and project-based learning
Together, these areas reflect a distinctive approach to learning environments:
Architecture + Furniture + Pedagogy
The goal is not simply to create better-looking classrooms.
It is to create learning ecosystems where space actively supports educational transformation.
What Does Denis Bring to the Conversation?
Denis’s work asks us to look beyond the traditional classroom.
Instead of seeing a learning environment as a fixed container for teaching, his approach considers how the space itself can support what happens inside it.
That means thinking about:
- How learners move and interact
- How spaces encourage curiosity and collaboration
- How environments can support independence
- How furniture and spatial design can complement pedagogy
- How architecture can respond to the people using the space
At its core, the conversation is about one shift:
From designing spaces for learning → to designing spaces that support learning.
Who Should Hear Denis at PULSE?
School Leaders & Owners
For those planning a new campus, upgrading an existing school or thinking about how physical environments support educational goals.
Educators
For those interested in how classroom environments, movement, interaction and spatial choices can complement pedagogy.
Architects & Designers
For professionals designing schools, classrooms, furniture and learning environments who want to think beyond conventional educational design.
Education & Learning Professionals
For researchers, consultants and practitioners exploring the relationship between people, pedagogy and place.
Anyone Rethinking K–12 Spaces
If you’re asking whether your school environment is genuinely supporting the kind of learning you want to create, this conversation is for you.
Why Should You Be in This Conversation?
Because designing a school is not only about deciding:
Where should the classroom go?
It is also about asking:
How should learners feel, move, interact, create and belong within it?
Denis brings a perspective that connects architecture, furniture and pedagogy—three areas that are often planned separately but experienced together by every learner.
What Can You Expect to Explore?
At PULSE, Denis’s perspective can help you rethink:
The classroom — has more than four walls.
Furniture — as more than functional objects.
Architecture — as more than structure.
Learning environments — as active participants in the educational experience.
And perhaps most importantly:
How do we design spaces around the learner, rather than simply designing spaces around a function?
Why PULSE 2026?
PULSE is not designed as a conventional conference where one profession speaks and everyone else listens.
It is a curated conversation around learning, people, culture and place.
Across 300 curated seats, educators, school leaders, architects, designers and researchers will come together from Delhi, Mumbai, Tamil Nadu, Bhopal, Nagpur and Indore, alongside perspectives from Japan, the UK, Australia, Sweden, Norway and the United States.
Different disciplines.
Different geographies.
Different experiences.
One shared question: How can we create better environments for learning?
Come to question what has become familiar. Come to challenge what may no longer work. Come to discover possibilities worth taking back to practice.
Because the value of PULSE isn’t simply what you write down.
It’s what you begin to see differently.
A Conversation That Can Continue Beyond PULSE
The questions around learning environments don’t end when the event does.
If you’re:
- Planning a new K–12 school
- Redesigning an existing campus
- Developing classrooms or learning spaces
- Exploring educational architecture
- Looking for guidance on school transformation
- Working at the intersection of pedagogy, design and space
GLSN can help connect you with relevant knowledge, people and perspectives.
Have a question about your school or learning environment?
Talk to GLSN. Start the conversation.
Meet Denis Fujii at PULSE 2026
📍 Sheraton Grand Palace, Indore
📅 5–7 October 2026
🎟️ 300 Curated Seats
Theme: Where Culture Meets Learning
One room. Different perspectives. New questions.
Come curious. Leave seeing learning spaces differently.