TEA talks, 18th October 2024 - Design for Education at Nuffield Theatre, Lancaster University.
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Technology, Environment and Architecture
Welcome to TEA Talks. A series of informal talks from our School of Architecture on the theme of Technology, the Environment, and the role of Architecture, now and in the future.
TEA talks | Design for Education 18th October 2024 | Nuffield Theatre, Lancaster University
This TEA talks event will discuss the impact of design on education, specifically focusing on how design can shape the spaces and tools for learning. The talks will present a series of case studies and research developed from across Europe, North America, South America and Asia. This event provide the tools to develop innovative approaches to design for education, and illustrate the conversation and action required to foster socially responsible design for education.
Alongside this event we will present the book Design for Education, Spaces and Tools for Learning, edited by Ana Rute Costa and Rachel Cooper. As the contributions of this book show, we must look at education as an input and output of a complex system, and we need to adopt an interdisciplinary multiple stakeholder approach, bringing together experts from a range of different fields and backgrounds as a cohesive strategy to improve future learning and teaching environments. Providing guidance and a theoretical framework for designing spaces and tools for learning.
This TEA talks on Design for Education will be a great inspiration for teachers, students as well as practitioners, educational researchers, architects, policymakers, and behaviour and built environment researchers.
Talks from our previous events
TEA Talks from our previous events appear at TEA Talks Lancaster School of Architecture
The climate emergency - Professor Simon Guy
When setting up the new school of architecture at Lancaster University a foundational commitment has been to address the ‘climate emergency’. But in an era when every architect would claim to be ‘green’, what does embracing sustainability actually involve architecturally?
999 what's your emergency? - Mark Slocombe
Architects hold the skills, tools and belief to drive change for good. How can we work with clients, design teams and authorities to help implement positive solutions to make a meaningful difference at a time of increased urban growth and a just in time delivery culture?
People - Dr Ana Rute Costa
A talk from Lancaster University architecture lecturer Dr Ana Rute Costa.
Ethics - Professor Deyan Sudjic
From Zaha Hadid’s cultural centre in Baku for Aliyev family, to Hannes Meyer’s work for Stalin in Moscow, architects have always found themselves working with problematic clients. How should we see their behaviour? Is there a difference between designing an interrogation cell for Saddam Hussein’s secret police, and an airport?
Place - Zoe Hooton
A talk from HEA Architects' Zoe Hooton.
Research - Dr Katherine Ellsworth-Krebs
Often domestic energy research focuses on making changes to the physical house and overlooks questions of lifestyle or changing expectations of our homes. This talk offers one poignant example of how the dominance of techno-economic research fails to attend to why demand for energy occurs in the first place.
Radical Creativity - Professor Ruth Dalton
A talk from Lancaster University architecture lecturer Professor Ruth Dalton.