AGL Theatre
Museum of Sydney
Phillip St & Bridge Street
Sydney NSW 2000
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Program Info
The inaugural Old School/New School forum brings together Australasia’s leading architects, designers, educators and researchers to discuss issues, share their experiences and speculate on possible futures for education design.
The three keynote speakers will address the topics of behaviour, pedagogy and technology. These will be followed by moderated panel discussions in which panel members will draw the audience into the conversation.
Architecture can get people talking together. Architecture can calm children in the classroom. Architecture can make passive people more active. Architecture can shape corporate culture. Architecture can encourage people to find new paths, discover new aspects of their city, and of themselves. 3XN believes that architecture can shape behaviour and that buildings – like people – are more than the sum of their parts. By applying holistic principles, 3XN is constantly exploring the potential for achieving a synthesis of design, function and context. Herforth Nielsen will exemplify how architecture shapes behaviour with a number of projects from 3XN’s portfolio.
Bridging the Gap Between Architecture and Learning
Presented by Julia Atkin, Education and Learning Consultant, Learning by Design
As we embrace the challenges and opportunities of the post-industrial globalized world, “design” trumps “planning” and collaboration trumps competition and isolation. What guides our development of different approaches and designs when our old “mental models” are no longer suitable? How do we go beyond innovation for innovation’s sake? It is the interstitial space between architects and educators that will create our best designs.
Systems and Spaces That Shape Teaching and Learning
Presented by Steven Cook, Principal, Albert Park College
It’s been a long journey for education design – from the outmoded learning spaces that many educators still labour in today to the modern, innovative learning spaces that are currently being developed. Cook will outline the challenges educators face in making this transition and explore both the opportunities and challenges that a modern learning environment creates for the designer and end user of the school. He will also explore emerging trends in education and the implications that they represent for students, educators and architects.
Panel Chairs.
Michael Keniger
Former Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor, University of Queensland
Sue Wittenoom leads AECOM’s Strategy Plus practice group and provides briefing, planning and change management services for new working environments. Sue has over twenty five years’ experience as an architect, project manager and property adviser.
Ben Cleveland (PhD) is an associate professor in learning environments in the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne, where he is co-director of the Learning Environments Applied Research Network (LEaRN). He is currently lead chief investigator for the Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage Project, Building Connections: Schools as Community Hubs (2019-2022) and the Inclusive Learning Environments in Catholic Schools (2021-2024) project sponsored by Melbourne Archdiocese Catholic Schools.
