Campus Acupuncture

Campus Acupuncture

RIGOPOULOS, PANOS (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)

Delft University of Technology

Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences

2020-01-31

The project aims to investigate the future/different ways of learning and speculates on how these will affect the educational system, in the context of the University of Gibraltar. Despite the hype around MOOCs, distance learning, and the dissolution of the classroom, through digital networks and online platforms, the latest education science insist on the importance of real-time human interactions to effective learning. While realizing the economic logics that underlie contemporary tertiary education this project will argue for the centrality of the role of architecture in the design of different (and specific) types of physical interactions between groups and individuals. By looking at revisit historical and classical modes of education and teaching, I will assert them for their viability according to contemporary economic logics, curriculum requirements and the ambitions of the University of Gibraltar. This method will also provide evidence on the various relations between the institutional form of education, the delivery mechanism of knowledge (books, lectures, screen), the role of the teacher and the actual space of education (classrooms, libraries, archives). The design intention is to dissolve the division/spatial separation between university and town, expanding the university into key buildings and spaces around the city and the landscape and developing ties between industry, institutions and the university. A parallel speculation on the future shifting of Gibraltar’s culture and economy, raises the issue of the provision of services to the students (accommodation, amenities, leisure). The project aspires to address these kinds of questions in the context of Gibraltar, I will further answering/reacting/counter-propose both for the procedure of learning and the future vision for the University of Gibraltar.

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Student theses

master thesis

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