University Planning & Design SummitCreating the Next Generation Teaching and learning Environment

This aircraft was designed for SPEED

This aircraft was designed for STEALTH

The Past

STATIC Learners

The Future

AGILE Learners

What does the new learning environment look like?To explore this idea we need to suspend belief in what we know and ask some questions.

1. What does the next generation agile student look like?

2. What does this mean pedagogically?

3. What does this mean spatially?

The Agile StudentExplores how the Net generation can be the most innovative , collaborative and productive cohort given the proper working and learning environment.

SMARTER

FASTER

MORE TOLERANT

DIVERSITY

“The bottom line is this: Understand the Net

Generation and you will understand the future.”

(Grown Up Digital, Don Tapscott)

The 8 Characteristics of the Net Generation (Agile Student)1. Prize freedom and freedom of choice.

2. Want to customise things, make them their own. 3. Natural collaborators who enjoy a conversation not a lecture.

4. They will scrutinise you and your organisation.

5. The want to have fun even at work or school.

6. They want Integrity

7. Speed is normal.

8. Innovation is part of life.(Grown Up Digital, Don Tapscott)

01

Choice

CHARACTERISTIC SHIFT: Prize freedom and freedom of choice.

PEDAGOGICAL SHIFT: Choice of learning and teaching styles.Activity Based Learning

SPATIAL SHIFT: Diversity, a spectrum of spaces , experimental and experiential places. immersive technology. Food 24/7. Activity Based Spaces

OUTDOOR / MODE 3 INTERACTIVE LOUNGE

REFLECTIVE BOOTH

REFLECTIVE WORKSTATION

HELP DESK

CREATIVE BENCH

CREATIVE CUBICLECREATIVE MEETING / SYNDICATE SPACE

COMPUTER LAB COMPUTER SERVER

LARGE SEMINAR ROOM

CLASSROOM - LARGE COLLABORATIVE

CLASSROOM - EXECUTIVE

CLASSROOM - MEDIUM SMALL COLLABORATIVE

TUTORIAL ROOM

02

Customise

CHARACTERISTIC SHIFT: They want to customise things.

PEDAGOGICAL SHIFT: They want student centred customised learning and teaching not broadcast.

SPATIAL SHIFT: Agile spaces that can be changed easily, both informal and formal and everywhere. Spaces students can have ownership over.

“They are used to customising the internet

and have changed it from a place where you find

information to a place where you SHARE information.”

(Grown Up Digital, Don Tapscott)

Uni SA

03

Collaborate

CHARACTERISTIC SHIFT: Natural Collaborators.

PEDAGOGICAL SHIFT: conversation learning not a lecture.

SPATIAL SHIFT: no lecture theatres, collaborative formal class , maximise informal space within/out, blur the boundaries, bump spaces, continuous, a network of spaces.

The ‘Agile Designer’ is a creative orchestrator of information, ideas and

talent.

FROM FIELDS

TO TERRAINS

Fenced / Not continuous / Separated / Directional

Open / Continuous / Connected Multiple pathways

Traditionally academic institutionshave operated in defined and isolated areasof study or “fields” of knowledge.The concept of knowledge “terrains”focuses on a connected, open andintegrated approach to learning thatbreaks down the barriers betweenfaculties and blurs the boundariesbetween disciplines.

FIELDS=

Step 1: Creating the podium Step 2: Shaping the podium

Proposed Floor PlateExisting Floor Plate

Step 3: Inserting the massing

ConnectedOpenIntegratedFlexible floor plateCollaborative environmentLearning landscape

RepetitiveClosedisolatedSegregated learning spaceMono functional approachNon flexible

TERRAINS=

OUTDOOR / MODE 3 INTERACTIVE LOUNGE

REFLECTIVE BOOTH

REFLECTIVE WORKSTATION

HELP DESK

CREATIVE BENCH

CREATIVE CUBICLECREATIVE MEETING / SYNDICATE SPACE

COMPUTER LAB COMPUTER SERVER

LARGE SEMINAR ROOM

CLASSROOM - LARGE COLLABORATIVE

CLASSROOM - EXECUTIVE

CLASSROOM - MEDIUM SMALL COLLABORATIVE

TUTORIAL ROOM

04CHARACTERISTIC SHIFT: They want to have fun. Speed is normal.

PEDAGOGICAL SHIFT: Community of Learners, blurring of play and learning and instantaneous feedback.

SPATIAL SHIFT: playful, bring community spaces into the university, eating, coffee sleeping, technology immersive, spacial synergies between disciplines and people

Fun + Fast

The best way to learn is from a community of learners who just learned.

(Facebook Co-Founder, Mark Zuckerberg)

The new teaching and learning terrain

Work with the super-traits of the agile student: Choice, Customise Collaborate, Fast + Fun

Suspend belief in the form

Get the right talent to collaborate and orchestrate a solution

Don’t be afraid of stealth bomber