COVER STORY
Spatial resilience
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A post-Covid way of thinking about our university campuses
oday, AUDE (the Association of University Directors of Estates) publishes a new report ‘Blended Working in the Higher Education Sector: A review of the post-pandemic university workplace’ which looks at the way the collective experience of working off-campus during the Covid-19 pandemic has changed attitudes, perceptions and
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habits in higher education across the world. AUDE commissioned leading architecture practice Hassell Studio to help examine these issues. Increasingly and for more and more people “Work is what you do, not where you do it”. This is a powerful proposition, that is changing how many HEIs see their workplace working for them in the future. And
with that comes an opportunity to re-iterate the purpose of the campus – to bring people and ideas together and to re-imagine how university estates may operate in terms of size, shape and model in the future. How might HEI’s translate these concepts into a blended workplace that is a practical and actionable vision of the future that is ‘fit for purpose’? What have we learnt from
