Learning Space Exercise: Catching Your Eye

The material below was associated with the EDUCAUSE 2006 half-day pre-conference workshop entitled “This is Not a Lab: Workshop on Developing Learning Environments.” The workshop was held on October 6, 2006, and featured Emily Baker, Director of Learning Environments at the University of Chicago, Mark Cheng, President of MDC Architects, Chicago, and Chad J. Kainz, Senior Director for Academic Technologies at the University of Chicago. This material has been reformatted and moved from the original workshop website.

Exercise

The spaces around you are filled with details that can inform or inspire creative thinking on a learning environment project. Something as simple as the location of the light switch can make the experience within a space more successful. During the break, take a look around you and identify one detail that interests you or you feel is clever or successful.