U21 Design Forum on learning Environment introduction: studentcentred learning Space

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U21 Design Forum on learning Environmentintroduct
ionstudent-centred learning Space

• The University of Hong Kong
• November 10 14, 2008

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Forum Objectives
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Objectives of the Design Forum

• to identify the emerging spatial needs arising
  from changes in the social and academic
  environments
• to explore the ways to enrich the university
  experience by the creation of new generation
  learning spaces
• to build shared vocabularies and goals for an
  interdisciplinary team to work on the development
  of a new locus of student learning
• to maintain an ongoing dialogue among U21
  member-institutions in the arena of learning
  environment development

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Contextual Scan
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Contextual Scan

• Changing manpower needs of the knowledge society
  call for university graduates with a broad
  perspective for solving increasingly complex
  problems as well as more generic and
  transferrable skills,

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Contextual Scan

• Technological advances have brought about a
  different way of life of learners and have
  blurred the lines between
• curricular/co-curricular activities
• physical/cyber presence
• learning space/social space
• formal/informal learning

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Contextual Scan

• Pedagogical changes and curricular development
  have led to more interdisciplinary interactions,
  different needs and multiple roles of students in
  the learning process which increasingly relies on
  self-directed activities outside the classrooms

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Contextual Scan

• A growing trend of internationalization at
  tertiary education institutions worldwide has
  resulted in an increasingly multi-cultural
  student and staff population.

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The Challenge
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The Challenge

• A multidisciplinary problem by nature
• Active involvement of and concerted efforts among
  academic and functional units are necessary

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The Challenge

• To unleash the possibilities calls for revisiting
  the whole issue of provision of learning premises
  and facilities, as well as challenging the status
  quo and entrenched beliefs

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The Challenge

• In a fast-paced society, needs and technological
  development are ever-changing, requiring a
  foresight into the future as well as considerable
  adaptability and plasticity of design

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The Challenge

• Addressing the needs vs. creating new needs
• What is now needed?
• What other needs are to be created?

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Other Key Contributors

• Peter Jamieson University of Melbourne
• Tom Kvan University of Melbourne
• Peter Cunich University of Hong Kong
• Michael Prosser University of Hong Kong
• Tony Ferguson University of Hong Kong
• Nicol Pan University of Hong Kong
• Danny Tang Wong Ouyang (HK) Ltd.
• Scott Smith Sasaki Associates, Inc.