{"id":69,"date":"2006-10-10T16:00:12","date_gmt":"2006-10-10T20:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevincreamer.net\/panda\/2006\/10\/10\/educause-2006-the-changing-place-of-space\/"},"modified":"2006-10-10T16:00:37","modified_gmt":"2006-10-10T20:00:37","slug":"educause-2006-the-changing-place-of-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevincreamer.net\/panda\/2006\/10\/10\/educause-2006-the-changing-place-of-space\/","title":{"rendered":"EDUCAUSE 2006 – The Changing Place of Space"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alan Cattier, Director of Academic Technologies and Carole Meyers, Senior Director, Facilities and IT at Emory College presented.<\/p>\n

Space design is something they’ve been working on for seven years and they’d like to show us about what they’ve done for the campus and for departments.<\/p>\n

Why talk about space and what makes it so challenging?\u00c2\u00a0 No one seems to have enough, maintenance is deferred in many spaces, non-traditional spaces are now becoming more valuable, and traditional ownership roles are at stake.<\/p>\n

Between A\/V, IT the Registrar and more, ownership is too complicated to say that any one office “owns” space on campus.<\/p>\n

In a “World is Flat” world, there is a “Disappearance of an ‘Outside'”.\u00c2\u00a0 Students are home and away, work mixing with play, computers are complimented by other devices, there is wired and wireless access, and students are able to access resources on or off campus.<\/p>\n

Financially, socially, and culturally everyone is looking for different things from space.\u00c2\u00a0 We also have to allow physical and virtual campuses to intersect.\u00c2\u00a0 Agility and adaptability are values to include in the design of campus spaces.<\/p>\n

In 2002 Emory began a seven year program focusing on formal learning spaces (classrooms).\u00c2\u00a0 Five million dollars was allocated for investment in classrooms.\u00c2\u00a0 Cox was created to be a collaborative computing lab, something they did not have before.<\/p>\n

Students are very savvy in how they exploit the space.\u00c2\u00a0 Quality matters: students were aware of the investment the institution had made.\u00c2\u00a0 61″ screens!\u00c2\u00a0 Maintenance really matters, and students take care of the place too because they see how much Emory cares.<\/p>\n

When it works, space becomes place.\u00c2\u00a0 “If you don’t know where you are, you don’t know who you are”, Wendell Berry as cited by Wallace Stenger in “A Sense of Place.”<\/p>\n

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Carole spoke about moving on from Cox.\u00c2\u00a0 The challenge was to leverage the lessons from Cox across 600,000 square feet.\u00c2\u00a0 They decided to set up a series of incubator classrooms.\u00c2\u00a0 Different rooms had different approaches.\u00c2\u00a0 One room was done with bean bag chairs when the ones that were ordered didn’t show in time:<\/p>\n

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Some liked this room, but other classrooms experimented differently with space.\u00c2\u00a0 The trick was once these spaces were designed, how would they be operated and maintained.\u00c2\u00a0 Facilities has 3 staff dedicated to this, while IT has 13 on the College Facilities and IT Team.\u00c2\u00a0 Another team is the AAIT’s Classroom Technologies Team, which has 7 people and is responsible for operations of 90 registar classrooms + 100 other rooms..\u00c2\u00a0 A Classroom Planning Group brings in a larger group, and there is an annual budget of $300,000 – $500,000 for innovation and maintenance.\u00c2\u00a0 Design and operations is seen as a continuum.<\/p>\n

A new project is their PSychology building.\u00c2\u00a0 If you have classroom standards, you can define the number of square feet per person that you want to have in a classroom.\u00c2\u00a0 New methods take more space per student and your architecht needs to know.\u00c2\u00a0 11% of the Psychology building is being preserved for common spaces – a direct lesson from Cox.<\/p>\n

Acoustics, furniture, lighting and HVAC are all considerations.\u00c2\u00a0 Zone your buildings to preserve energy when possible.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/p>\n

Facilities staff are usually interested but distant from academic practices and operations, as well as IT.\u00c2\u00a0 Put facilities staffs in your shoes – let them cart technology around so they can see the use of A\/V closets.<\/p>\n

If you do good work, the faculty and the students will get behind your efforts and demand that you do the same in their different spaces.\u00c2\u00a0 But you have to bring the facilities people along so they can see how people respond to changes in space.<\/p>\n

Other points:<\/p>\n