Monash Student Hub: Open Minds, Open Spaces
Beyond institutions for learning and innovation, universities serve as equally valuable centres for culture and socialisation. In the shared interstitial space between buildings and classes, young minds make formative bonds that shape career trajectories. Engaging and impactful, Monash University’s new student hub is specifically geared for connection, productivity and informal study. Sitting in the heart […]
DS Architects: Shaping buildings that meet the future through perpetual evolution
As the practice matures into its next chapter, the senior team at DS Architects – Associates Carlee Smith and David Cardamone, with Managing Director Peter Schreuder – share thoughts on their pragmatic approach, milestone projects and future plans. DS Architects has come a long way since their origins as Blomquist + Wark in 1976. Their […]
How Virtual Reality can enhance learning – The IT Research Lab @ Monash University, Melbourne
This video is about a new facility at Monash University that would make for an intriguing and exciting addition to the more typical classrooms and teaching spaces in primary and secondary schools. It was designed for the IT department and is a Virtual Reality (VR) facility that is used to research how VR may improve our understanding and […]
Enhancing Learning Through Creativity and Collaboration – The Learning Lab @ The University of Melbourne
We made this video to share with you how working collaboratively as a design team with the project stakeholders and thinking creatively about how to deal with obstacles, can result in an innovative learning facility. Here are some of the key ideas: Does your teaching space need a front of house (FoH). Classrooms do not […]
Enhancing Learning – Next Generation Learning Spaces at Monash University, Melbourne
We made this video for sharing some of the great ideas Monash University is implementing in its next generation of learning spaces. Here are some of the key ideas: The amount of space needed for an effective collaborative learning space. How technology helps make classrooms flexible. A variety of furniture and seating arrangements give students a choice […]
Why Being Curious Makes for Better Designs
Several topics have been occupying my mind in 2021. The leader of a legal firm having to step down for sending a letter to staff that challenged the status quo. Victoria University writing a compelling RFT about the type of people they want to work with. A transgender person kicked out of female toilets in a […]
Why Designing for Potential Makes for Better Classrooms
In this post, I identified the teacher as the essential ingredient in creating a great classroom. I think the next one is ‘potential’ – when designing a learning space, imagine entering it for the first time and thinking ‘am I inspired to learn here?’ Flexible use and class sizes of a typical classroom can compete […]
Why Architects Must Remember to Design Spaces for People to Use
This article https://lnkd.in/gP58unk talks about the amazing things being done to combine Information technology and building materials to enhance the experience of entering a building. It reminded me of a passage in the 1943 book ‘The Fountainhead’ by Ayn Rand; a book that is a bit of a rite of passage for architects to read. “The intrinsic […]
How ds is Helping to Hurry Up the Demise of the Lecture Theatre
The demise of the lecture theatre has been touted for quite some time and Monash University are doing their bit to speed this along having recently converted 2 lecture theatres into an extended/cross reality (XR) laboratory . Some of the amazing work that will be developed in the laboratory can be found here. Touted as a $30Billion […]
How Diversity And Innovation Drive Great Culture
Great article here about how diversity drives innovation. The take away piece for is “diverse workplaces drive innovation because the more diverse teams are along many dimensions the more likely they are to draw inspiration from seemingly unrelated places. These idea combinations lead to more unlikely and more innovative ideas.”
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