Why Learning Space Design Matters Academic Learning Spaces: Invention, (Re)Invention and Innovation
Alan Cattier Emory University
The Latest Gaze of Our Students
Kaiser Family Foundation Study on Media and Health, January 20th, 2010
The Latest Gaze of Our Students
Kaiser Family Foundation Study on Media and Health, January 20th, 2010
Looking through Student Eyes...
Work
Play
Home
School
Curricular
Co-Curricular
Wired
Wireless
Computers
Devices
Home
Away
Near
Far
Home Play
Wireless Curricular
Devices Away Near
Work
Far Wired
Computers
Co-Curricular
What’s been at stake in the emergence of the Digital Campus?
• Intelligibility • Legibility • A Sense of Design • Intentionality
Q: What is the Classroom of the future? A: The Campus Phil Long, The University of Queensland
Some Questions... If our facilities seem poorly designed to meet the current cultural backdrop of student learning, imagine what our campuses must feel like?
How do we negotiate the digital campus? How do we re-design our campus for new forms of learning?
“Deep Change” •
Divisions and Teams that never talked to each other MUST talk to each other.Very often the team that maintains the physical campus must be disrupted to engage the virtual campus.
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Processes that have been in place and worked for many years, particularly around sourcing and campus planning, must be disrupted in order to accommodate the emerging digital campus.
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Learners need to be at the table to corroborate the direction of the change.
Changing Space for Place: A Catalyst for Change •
Opened in 2002
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Addition in 2009
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5,000 student visits/month -> 27,000
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On peak days > 1,700 unique visitors (4500 undergrads)
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Computing lab, collaboration lab, 3 classrooms
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Curricular and co-curricular
Learning Space Design
• Space becomes place • The Learner acknowledges their presence in your design.
• “If you don’t know where you are, you
don’t know who you are,” Wendell Berry as cited by Wallace Stegner in “A Sense of Place”
Cox Entry Stats
January
February
March
Totals
spring 2010
13,387
27,758
25,976
67,124
spring 2009
11,768
24,639
22,138
58,545
spring 2008
8,869
21,285
16,118
46,272
spring 2007
6,549
16,084
14,246
36,879
spring 2006
5,392
14,040
12,476
31,908
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Onward Planning
• Think Systemically, Design Accordingly • Every discipline and every department is
being marked by change. The challenge is prioritizing fields and areas of study that are undergoing revolutionary change.
• Not only for students, but for faculty and graduate students.