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OFFICES IN EUROPE, ASIA-PACIFIC AND THE AMERICAS

‘Learning communities: extending the virtual and the built estate to embrace a wider vision of higher learning’Andrew HarrisonDirector, Learning and Research


• Shift from paper processing to knowledge brokering

• Open and non-hierarchical organisations

• Value in ideas not the manufacture of product

• Work when we like, where we like, how we like

• Organisation mixture of “core staff”,“freelance staff” and

“partners”

Boots Chemist HeadquartersDEGW Architects, Interior Change Management

Context: work is changing


CORE SPACE• icon and image space • long lease/freehold• prime location• highly serviced

FLEXI SPACE • shorter leases• administrative or • sales space• conference/training

space

PAY-AS-YOU-GO• licensed or pay for use • shared/ borrowed from

partners

New paradigms of space ownership

“Company’s assets are ‘know how’, not physical assets”


Virtual and physical space are complementary…

VIRTUAL SPACE convenient

efficient

PHYSICAL SPACE meaningful

symbolicengagement of the senses

WHATEVER THE INTERFACE YOU ARE ALWAYS PHYSICALLY LOCATED SOMEWHERE

….one type of space

does not replace

the other


Knowledge Systemse.g. VPN/IntranetThe Hive BP

e.g. Home/office

©DEGW 2002

privateprotected access

individual or collaborative workspace

privileged invited access

collaborative project and meeting space

public open access

informal interaction

and workspace

VIRTUAL PHYSICAL

e.g. clubs, airport lounges(‘baby’)

The distributed workplace

e.g. café, hotel lobbies airports(Bryant Park New York)

Knowledge communitiese.g. IM, project extranets, video conference

Internet sitese.g. public chat rooms, information sources,


The city is the office

‘city is the office’

‘office is the city’

abbey national / costa coffee / carphone warehouse shop

single location,owned space

multiple locations, shared spaces

Increased use of distributed,shared workplacesMove from fixed to variable costs

BA Waterside


Is a similar transformation occurring in education?


Where does learning take place?

Some numbers…..

The floor area of maintained primary and secondary schools in England is in the order of 60 million sqm, with a replacement value of around £130 billionSource: DfES 2006

Publicly funded Scottish schools comprise 8 million sqm of space on a site area of 51 million sqm, with a replacement value of £7.7 billionSource: Scottish Executive Statistics2005/2006

The UK Higher Education estate comprises 24.9 million sqm of gross space with a replacement value of £38.9 billionSource: AUDE review 2005/2006


Utilisation of educational space• School classroom utilisation approx. 80%

during core day

• Schools currently only used for about 18% of the total time available

• Utilisation rates of 15% - 20% still common in UK universities

• Little attention paid to utilisation of library and social spaces

• Use of space out of core hours and term time is increasing

• Scope for major rethinking of use of space and time in education


The rules are changing…..

• The internet has changed notions of place, time and space

• Emerging new methods of teaching and learning based on an improved understanding of cognition

• Effect of demographic changes on learning population

• Changing financial context for education: increased competition, pressure on resources

• Impact of changes in government policy: role of schools in the community, increasing participation

• Blending of living, learning and leisure• Life-long learning


• Major investment underway across all areas of education:

– Refurbishment or replacement of every secondary school in England

– £40 billion+ investment in England over 15 years

– £5 billion -10 billion spend on IT– a new school every 3.5 days

for 15 years• Additional investment programmes for

primary schools, Academies, plus Scotland/ Wales/ N. Ireland

• Revolution not evolution in education practice - rethinking education process, use of space, time, and technology

Building Schools for the Future (BSF)


Extended Schools

• Extended Schools provide a range of services and activities to help meet the needs of children, their families and the wider community

• Services may include childcare, adult education, parenting support programmes and community-based health and social care services

• Increased use of the school beyond the normal school day

• Boundaries between the school and the community are dissolving – the locked school gate will be a thing of the past


Vision for further education

• Learning Skills Council vision:

“by 2010, young people and adults in England will have the knowledge and productive skills matching the best in the world.”

• 4.6 million adults over the age of 19 study in FE every year- basic skills through to Foundation Degrees

• General and vocational qualifications, apprenticeships and other forms of work based training for 16-19 year-olds

• Investment in UK Colleges and other FE institutions across the UK

• Key element in ‘widening participation’ agenda – skills based learning

City and Islington College, Wilkinson Eyre Architects


• More collaborative, active learning with hands-on experiences

• Integrated, multidisciplinary

• Blended, learning takes place anywhere/anytime, mobile technology with social activity

• Immersive with simulated or real-world experiences

• Hybrid activities, online with face-to-face, mixed reality

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Harvard Simulation Center Chalmers University

New ways of learning


• Physical working environments are increasingly equipped by and formed through new technological features supporting mobile ways of working

• Physical learning environments find their extension in the non-physical environments of the digital world.

• In combination the physical and the non-physical learning environments lead to new hybrid spaces and environments.

Shift from physical to hybrid learning environments


The experience is the computer

• New screen technologies • Increased availability and reduced cost of

large table top/ wall displays• LCD data projectors and virtual keyboards

integrated into PDAs and laptops• Immersive displays: head mounted

displays, retinal projection displays, data gloves and other haptic devices

• CAVEs – computer animated virtual environments –projected environments for fully immersive experience

• Location based services, ambient intelligence and pervasive computing


Virtual law • Harvard Law School/ Extension School

course 2006• Extension students will experience

portions of the class through Second Life. • Videos, discussions, lectures, and office

hours will all take place on ‘Berkman Island’

• Students from anywhere in the world will be able to interact with one another, in real time.

• ‘Face to face’ time with teaching staff all happens virtually

• Moot courts held in the Second Life environment with Harvard Law School students acting as the judges


New Media Consortium campus

• The New Media Consortium (NMC) is an international consortium of nearly 200 leading colleges, universities, museums, corporations

• Campus is a space that will support and inspire collaborative and creative learning

• “The campus also has its own library with plenty of room to rest and reflect on one's studies. Computer terminals allow you to access important information on web sites and these are situated around comfortable meeting spaces. It is also complete with ‘stacks of books’ to give an authentic library feel. “


“Thirty years from now the big university campuses will be relics. Universities won’t survive.….”

“…the cost of higher education has risen as fast as the cost of healthcare…. the system is rapidly becoming untenable. Higher education is in deep crisis.”

Peter Drucker, Forbes magazine, July 1997

The future of the university campus?


Transformation not extinction: new space models • Traditional categories of space

are becoming less meaningful as space becomes less specialized, boundaries blur, and operating hours extend toward 24–7

• Space types designed primarily around patterns of human interaction rather than specific needs of particular departments, disciplines or technologies

• New space models focus on enhancing quality of life as much as on supporting the learning experience

circulation as event space

more freely available space

group project work, solo work

redefining ‘balance’ space

circulation as glue


The new learning landscape

Centralhubs

City

One-stop

Knowledge

Student

Learningspaces

Study

Teaching

Skills

Work

Lifestylefacilities

Catering

Sports

Living

Retail


Defining the learning landscape

SPECIALIZED LEARNING SPACESTailored to specific functions or teaching modalities

Limited setting types:formal teaching, generally enclosed

Access:Embedded, departmental

GENERIC LEARNING SPACESRange of classroom types

Range of setting types:formal teaching, open and enclosed

Access:In general circulation zones, access by schedule

INFORMALLEARNING SPACESBroad definition of learning space

Wide range of setting types:informal and formal, social, open and enclosed

Access:Public, visible, distributed, inclusive

Tend to be:

• owned within departments, subject specific

• involve specialized equipment

• require higher levels of performance specification

• often higher security concerns

Tend to be:

• generic teaching settings

• often limited in flexibility by furnishings

• used when scheduled

Tend to:

• encompass richer range of settings

• allow choice

• be loose fit, unscheduled

• work as a network of spaces rather than singular settings

• have food!


Mapping the learning landscape

integrated with the city site constraints create 4 distinct quadrants

segregated building clusters library cluster is the ‘new entrance

CA

MPU

SC

LUSTE

R

BU

ILD

ING

FIT O

UT


The Estate of Lincoln with Vision/ Idea profile

Identity and brand

Condition and maintenance

Circulation Permeability Flexibility Way finding and orientation

Use and movement

Security

Expression Efficiency Effectiveness


Taking the learning landscape to the City

Opportunities for shared learning facilities that can be used by a wide range of learning institutions

Museums and galleries as example of layered learning experience

Evolution of community libraries into learning centres

Blended research and business buildings

Bookable shared specialist facilities (e.g. Superlab at London Metropolitan University)

NB Issues of identity and belonging

Centre of the Cell, Queen Mary, London


Community learning centres

• Creating communities centred on a learning and resource centre linked to an academic institution – ‘work centre’

– a library and information resource centre

– range of teaching and meeting spaces that facilitate both face-to-face and distance learning activities

Idea Store Chrisp Street, Tower Hamlets

SESC Pompéia, Sao Paulo, Brazil


Mapping the learning landscape

Sheffield Mapping project currently underway


Aga Khan University in East Africa New Faculty of Arts and Science

campus in Arusha, Tanzania

Creation of an ‘all age learning campus’ integrating an Aga Khan Academy, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, continuing professional and community education and a retirement community

Holistic learning spaces supporting arts and science learning activities

Connection with local community, Arusha township, Tanzania and the East African region


Aga Khan Academy

(K-12)

Nursery

Learning and teaching CentreFAS core curriculum centre

-shared lecture theatres, classroomslaboratories, workshops and

Art studios. Film School

Performance space

Student support: Counselling, Prayer rooms,

catering facilities

Library/ social

learning/Student

‘one stop shop’

Sports/performance

Business Hotel

& conferenceCentre

Off campus

Student and staff

accommodation

Retirement community

Potential for shared classrooms, library, performance space, technology labs, social and sports facilities

Community Centre

Health ClinicMeeting spaces

Faculty of Arts and Science, Arusha:creating an ‘all age learning’ campus

Professional Schools &

East Africa Institute

Archive

Seed and soil collections

Off campus

Hospital

Off campus

Community Gardens- traditional healing

Business incubators

Commercial Film Studio

Off campus

Executive Education

Centre

AKU/ FASAdmin.Centre

Science Park

Off campus


Where do we go from here?

• Wider engagement on the implications of educational change for social and urban change

• Schools as providers of workplace, health and social services and leisure facilities for the community

• Universities as blended environments – making the most out of the university experience but supporting anytime, anywhere learning

• Creation of learning centred communities

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