ERIC Number: EJ1400284
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023
Pages: 14
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Flexibility and Predictability: Change, Furniture Arrangements and Pedagogical Communication
Kivelä, Mikael
Journal of Learning Spaces, v12 n1 p33-46 2023
Non-traditional learning spaces have been a trending topic and investment opportunity during the last decade. Ostensibly their novel material settings promote active and flexible learning. This article traces the furniture layouts utilized in curricular teaching during three semesters across the first five years of use of an 80-seat non-traditional learning space in University of Helsinki, Finland. We examine space and pedagogical communication as a deleuzoguattarian arrangement; we present a tension between social, organic, and physiochemical predictability and a limited, yet observable drive to change furniture layouts to promote particular kinds of pedagogical communication in curricular teaching.
Descriptors: Furniture, Space Utilization, Universities, Foreign Countries, Change, Educational Facilities Design, Educational Environment
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Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Finland (Helsinki)
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