Digital Collection Examines Learning Space Design

A new digital collection entitled Sustainable Learning Spaces: Design, Infrastructure, and Technology published by Computers and Composition Digital Press, an imprint of Utah State University Press, tells the stories of how learning spaces embrace sustainability as they move from vision to reality (e.g., sustainable construction, finances, pedagogies, staffing, and technology lifecycles). The sections contained in Sustainable Learning Spaces trace three related trajectories, comprised of multiple institutions, voices, and contexts. The collection is organized by phases of the design process: creating, reinventing, and sustaining. Chapters examine the intersections of space design, infrastructure, and technology, with a focus on how spaces that span institutions and contexts are envisioned and composed.

Coedited by the Noel Studio's Executive Director and building on research in the program, the collection helps guide planning processes at academic institutions using audio, visual, and video samples of exemplary spaces. Sustainable Learning Spaces is freely available through Computers and Composition Digital Press. 

NOVEMBER 2015

Published on November 23, 2015