Learning Spaces – In-Between Spaces

Learning can and should happen everywhere on campus. In between these destination sites are lounges, hallways and other informal areas that can be so much more than transition spaces.

Application Ideas

Extending Instruction

Leverage Real-Estate

Leveraging real estate in lounge spaces, hallways and common areas is simple: give users the means for control, comfort and collaboration. These attributes can change the simplest in-between space into a multipurpose workspace, allowing students to maximize space and support choice and control over their learning.

Collaborative Spaces

COLLABORATIVE CHOICES

From standing-height tables to collaborative seating, this lounge provides students a variety of spaces to choose from, whether studying alone or with others.

COLLABORATIVE LOUNGE

This in-between space offers a unique lounge aisle with small collaborative tables on the left and soft seating with tables and power built in on the right, offering students and educators choice and control over where they work.

Blended Learning

This space encourages informal interactions and is ideal for research projects when students need to connect with a remote expert or team.

The static whiteboard offers a vertical surface to display thinking as it occurs.
The media:scape lounge with canopy provides the privacy desired for virtual connections.
Large setting with HD videoconferencing allows students to easily collaborate and connect across geographic boundaries.
Buoy offers a choice of posture and movement.

In-Between Focus

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Students and instructors need spaces to catch up on reading or for final review of materials before and after class. In-between spaces that offer privacy allow students to quickly settle in and get to work.

The Brody footrest and personal worksurface allow students to quickly get comfortable and get to work.
The positioning of Brody WorkLounge creates privacy even in open in-between spaces.
When placed near classrooms, the Brody WorkLounge becomes a destination for students who need to focus prior to class.

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