Our 2018 event examined how a modern and diverse learning environment can attract, engage and retain its students and staff.
Sessions included:
Jellybean Learning: The Future of the University Campus
- Sue Holmes, AUDE & Oxford Brookes University
From Concept to Post-Occupancy Evaluation: The Bush House Story
- Niamh Godley & Holly Sorce, King’s College London
Engage: A Toolkit Approach to Inclusive Place (not Space) Design
- Sinead O'Toole, Sheffield Hallam University and Ian Ellison, 3edges
Challenges for Universities: Opportunities for forming a brand
- Christine Kohlert, RBSGROUP EU
Afternoon Chair’s Welcome Back
- Holly Sorce, King’s College London
Biophilic Design: Improving the human connection with nature in HE estates
- Oliver Heath, Oliver Heath Design
The Role of Psychoacoustics in Designing Learning Environments
- Colin Campbell, Ecophon Group & Nigel Oseland, Workplace Unlimited
Informal Student Environments: Learning from POEs of the LSE’s Saw Swee Hock Student Centre and LSE LIFE
- Ziona Strelitz, ZZA Responsive User Environments
Libraries at the heart of the student experience
- Andrew Harrison, Spaces That Work
With Sinead O'Toole, Sheffield Hallam University and Ian Ellison, 3edges
Sheffield Hallam University needed to develop an approach to help engage and consult with stakeholders when creating new learning and workplaces. A common challenge is how to ensure that staff are consulted in a meaningful...
With Christine Kohlert, RBSGROUP EU
Learning Establishments today are looking for ways to spur the kind of creative thinking that leads staff and students to generate innovative ideas. Many are finding that the physical spaces in which people work and learn can provide a strong impetus to follow...
With Colin Campbell, Ecophon Group & Nigel Oseland, Workplace Unlimited
Despite resistance to open plan classrooms in the UK, the movement towards innovative learning environments continues in parts of Europe, especially Scandinavia, Australia and New Zealand. Their definition (ILEs) is an ongoi...
With Sue Holmes, AUDE & Oxford Brookes University
The world is undergoing huge changes in the way we work, communicate, live and learn.
The education sector, not immune to these changes, has to adapt to the latest technological developments, respond to cuts in funding, and meet evolving student...
With Andrew Harrison, Spaces That Work
Libraries are seeking to shift from their traditional role as repositories of information and other resources for individual, passive learning to being places where learners meet, collaborate, and interact in learning processes that are much more dynamic. T...
With Niamh Godley & Holly Sorce, King’s College London
The iconic Bush House buildings (previously the BBC World Service) has expanded the King’s College London Strand Campus and gives the College space to grow and provide students access to a modern and purpose-designed environment specific to ...
With Ziona Strelitz, ZZA Responsive User Environments
It’s not just informal versus formal! Ziona will draw on ZZA’s POEs of the LSE’s architecturally distinctive student centre, and the School’s new curated learning hub, evidencing the respective roles of design, management and academic support...
With Oliver Heath, Oliver Heath Design
Oliver Heath explores the emerging science and style of Biophilic design; presenting new research that demonstrates how strengthening the human connection with nature we can improve the many spaces we live and work in. These improvements can improve mental ...
With Holly Sorce, King's College London
With Paul Wheeler, King's College London