How Campus Design Relates to Corporate Learning
Learning happens everywhere on campus. But what about the corporate campus? Can the design of learning spaces at the university teach the corporation something? Tracy Fouchea of Herman Miller thinks so. She makes the point in a recent article in Chief Learning Officer. One key, she says, is designing in the ability to change a space at will to meet all the different ways learning can happen.
“If you think about corporate learning spaces, some of them may be used only for formal learning or when they’re not being used for formal learning, it’s first come, first served or scheduled opportunities to use the space,” Fouchea said. “If you can make it so that it’s adaptable and multi-use, it can take on many other leads within an organization.”
More proof of the similarities between the design of learning spaces on corporate and educational campuses can be seen in places like the Innovation Park. It’s designed to jump-start early-stage companies. The facility itself is collaborative and flexible so it can respond to the diverse needs of short-term clients. Not unlike the situation for spaces on corporate campuses.
Developmental ideas based on learning are… ideal.Of course there is an intrinsic social and economic gain by reciprocating the impact of positive outcomes among disciplines.. What seems to be difficult to overcome is the fact that each discipline uses its own language: same words, different meanings, deriving from different philosophies and conceptual frameworks. Let’s aim, to begin, to a semantic common language. It may require putting together people from different disciplines: for example let’s select a sample from educators, school architects, office planners, furniture designers, visionaries, manufacturers, technology experts, etc. to develop a movement of conversations for identifying commonalities and differences, and work from there to exchange mutually beneficial solutions. Ciao.