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Where is the theory?
Towards Creative Learning Spaces:re-thinking the
architecture of post-compulsory education
Dr. Jos Boys, Senior Research Fellow, Learning Spaces, Centre for Excellence for Teaching and
Learning through Design (CETLD)
What is the problem?
• The relationship between space and the activities that go on it remains seriously under-theorised and under-researched
• Although many research methods exist for exploring this relationship, these are not often used
• We need to be asking the questions: what is it that is distinctive about post-compulsory teaching, learning and research; and what is it that matters about space for learning?
the ‘commonsense’ view
• structuring ideas about learning and space via social and spatial analogy
• seeing design intentions and built results as equivalent
• relating space and learning through behaviours• reading ‘effects’ directly off spaces• aiming to ‘change’ education by changing
space
Social and spatial analogies
• Formal
• passive• single-directional• one-to-many• individual• serious
• Informal
• active• multi-directional• many-to-many• social• playful
Social and spatial analogies
• Formal
• passive• single-directional• one-to-many• individual• serious
• Informal
• active• multi-directional• many-to-many• social• playful
oppositional
associative
Towards Creative Learning Spaces: Re-thinking the Architecture of Post-
compulsory Education •Reviewing different perspectives- architects, educators, estate-managers•Developing a conceptual framework and exploring possible research methods•Considering how this affects the development and designing of learning spaces
To be published by Routledge, end of 2010
Current educational theories
communities of practice/threshold conceptsLave and Wenger 1991, Wenger 1998, Meyer and Land 2006
Current educational theories
situated/boundary crossings/ legitimate peripheral participation/ journey from margin to centre/reification through the repertoire
Current educational theories
troublesome knowledge/sticking points/ liminal spaces
Contemporary architectural theories and approaches
deconstruction/post-structuralism
Contemporary architectural theories and approaches
events-based practices /embodied, affective encounters/partial, uneven relationships
Estates management
•how learning and space are related
•what matters about learning for space (and space for learning)
•what matters about space beyond learning
•setting priorities, measuring value
Conceptualising relationships between space and learning
Lefebvre 1991The Production of Space
The designed environment conceived space/representations of space
social and spatial routines perceived space/spatial practices
Individual engagements and adaptations of designed environment and social and spatial practices lived space/representational space
mapping the spaces of learning encounters
close observation, talk, social and spatial practices, everyday routines to explore layered partial understandings and tensions - not to
evaluate as ‘good or bad; but to ‘illuminate’.
(re)making the space of the institution
beyond representation and consensus:intersections between social and spatial practices, repertoires and individual
engagements
(re) thinking the spaces of the learning, teaching,research
knowledge creation, transfer and exchange, creative, professional and development, business and community engagement, health and wellbeing,
access and equality, resource-effectiveness and sustainability
(re) constructing learning spaces
• mapping intersections of existing social and spatial practices/individual engagements/designed environment
• articulating and debating learning encounters/ relationships/ contexts
• locating space and its design as not central, but with a particular ‘place’
• learning as more than space, and space as more than learning
Learning Spaces, CETLD• Towards Creative Learning Spaces. Re-thinking the
architecture of post-compulsory education (Routledge 2010 forthcoming)
• Re-shaping Learning: conference 21-23 July 2010, University of Brighton http://arts.brighton.ac.uk/research/cetld/reshaping-learning-conference
• http://www.spacesforlearning.blogspot.com
• Jos Boys [email protected] • Hilary Smith [email protected]
