April 2, 2008
How to Design Spaces for the Plugged-In Generation
Over on Buildings & Grounds, The Chronicle‘s blog about architecture and facilities, an architect from the firm SmithGroup discusses the ways that Millennials are challenging traditional notions of campus design.
Because Millennials are always plugged in, architects have to design for impromptu study and social groups, leaving old classroom designs to be a thing of the past, writes Mark McVay, design director in the firm’s Los Angeles office.
“The old notion of a public square can now be recreated in multiple locations throughout a campus — even in the classroom,” he says. “These developments give us opportunities to increase the experiential component of learning — and we’ve only begun to scratch the surface. The shifting roles of spectators and participants in networked gaming environments are also intriguing, and could have dramatic effects if applied in classrooms.”
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Millennial. A young person, esp., a cluelessly wireless young person, whose elders have allowed him to believe that it doesn’t matter whether 0 or 1 was the first year of the Common Error.
— S. Britchky Apr 2, 12:58 PM #
JSBrowns praises of the serrendipitous encounters available on face to face campus forms, making education there worth more than in e-mediated institutions, is made more important by these new spaces where whom one overhears and sits next to could be anyone from any department or theme or even institution. We are re-structuring ourselves for greater mixing and that means greater diversity and that means (under certain conditions) greater creativity.
— Richard Tabor Greene Apr 3, 06:00 AM #