Higher Education Spaces and Places for Learning Innovation and Knowledge Exchange - Alastair Blyth
1. Higher Education Spaces and Places
for Learning Innovation and
Knowledge Exchange
Alastair Blyth
IMHE 2012, Paris
2. Summary
• Creating spaces for knowledge exchange
• Flexible environments
• Managing the facilities
• Designing cities for knowledge: the role of
universities
9. Open University Campus, Milton Keynes, UK
109,000m2 of accommodation - of which 7,000m2 for Laboratories
- 260,000 students
10. Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology
Ulsan, South Korea
Library
Student Hall
Student
Administration Bldg. Dormitory
155,066.58m2 of accommodation – 5,000 students
15. Matching learning to technology and space
Learning mode Technology Space type
Work-based learning Collaborative spaces with
ePortfolios
Work-integrated learning high-end technology
Field-trips – real and virtual Virtual field-trips
Collaborative spaces with
Simulation and role-plays Online simulations
high-end technology
Problem-based learning Blogs, wikis
Collaborative spaces with
Case studies Multimedia case studies
high-end technology
Lectures Podcasts
‘flipped learning’ spaces
Assessment Review
Source: Prof Shirley Alexander, University of Technology Sydney
32. Rethinking the property portfolio
Core Flexible On-demand
Owned Leased Short-term
Brand / Image Shared with Project start-ups
partners with partners
Universities rethinking the use of space
e.g. SANE Report, DEGW 2001
33. Space
Space Reallocation
Saving
+ generic teaching /
free space
specialist skill space
Current Space -
Space Target
+ learning resource
- support
circulation/
+ informal learning
34. Generic Specialised Informal
Features: Features: Features:
• Timetabled • Timetabled • No timetable
• Use by all • Specific functions • Use by anyone
• Constrained • Specialised equip. • Flexible
Implications: Implications: Implications:
• Manage timetable • Manage timetable • Hard to manage
• Expensive if • Inflexible • Self-directed
mismanaged • Expensive • Exchange space
35. Facilities should be supportive
Manage both space need and use
UNIVERSITIES FACILITIES
DYNAMIC MANAGE FIXED
CHANGING SUPPORTIVE
Innovation activities
36. NEEDS FACILITIES
What is there?
• Amount
MANAGE • Type
Student expectations: • Location
– Lifestyle Balance interests • Use
– Finance • Cost
– Courses…
Teaching, research, – Business need
knowledge exchange –…
– methods and Funding
relationships… Manage change
Engagement with local – Flexibility Respond to change
and global community – Short term
Interactions –
– Distance learning… Medium term
– Other systems – Long term
Administrative
functions… Staff capacity
– Expertise
Brand / image Space type
– Culture – Owned
…. – Leased
– On-demand
38. OECD Review of
Higher Education Institutions in Regional
Development (2005 – 2012)
To Become Globally Competitive
Countries Need to Invest in their Innovation
Systems
not only at the national, but also regional level
… HEIs can play a key role in
Regional Innovation
Systems, Human Capital
development…..
39. Designing Cities for Knowledge
Education / Information
Training search
Knowledge University Business /
exchange community
Research Innovation
40. University: Spaces for Knowledge Exchange
(Teaching / study) (Information)
Cities
University
(Knowledge Exchange) (Business / community)
(Research) (Innovation)
41. IST Campus Taguspark, Lisbon
2001
50000 m
Orthophotograph Institutions and functions
1 445 students
Most recent precinct in the LMA
Integrated in the urban fabric Road network system Land morphology
Open precinct – no physical barriers
Smooth topography
Low accessibility Built/voids Outdoor areas
42. IT University, Copenhagen Architect: Henning Larsen Macquarie Bank, Sydney, Australia. Clive Wilkinson
43. Thank You!
Alastair Blyth
alastair@alastairblyth.com
www.alastairblyth.com
See also:
www.oecd.org/edu/facilities
Notas do Editor
According to TEFMA, the capital and operating costs of university campuses is around 20% of their total operating cost. At a time when there is pressure to costs, this matters. I want to have a look at three trends in the short time that we have, to raise some issues that will be looked at in more depth by the following presentations, but also to offer some thoughts on what those managing university facilities may have to think more about.
From the macro scale to the micro. The second trend is the redefinition of internal spaces used in universities. A challenge facing those managing university facilities is to get maximum use out of their space.To adapt to greater uncertainty the types of space being used are shifting from being formal and fixed and bookable spaces to being flexible.
There is a pressure on higher education to reduce the amount of space used, yet conversely there is a pressure to cater for more students. This is seeing an emphasis on more generic teaching space with reducing specialist skill space which tends to be expensive to maintain. There is an increase in space dedicated to learning resources, less space devoted to support functions and greater use of circulation and informal types spaces such as cafés etc for informal learning.For those managing the facilities, it is important to know: How much of what type of space is there and how is it used?How does the space match the institution’s vision?How do you get flexibility?