“The Innovation
Campus: Building Better Ideas”

The title is the main idea of the article. She wants to create better campuses.

“They and their partners in industry are pouring millions into new buildings for business, engineering and applied learning that closely resemble the high-tech workplace, itself inspired by the minimally partitioned spaces of the garage and the factory.” They are spending a large amount of money to bring her ideas to reality.

“In many of the new buildings, an industrial look prevails, along with an end to privacy.”… “No one has a private office at the Bloomberg Center, the primary academic building, and opaque walls are few.” Privacy is the state of being free from public attention. Everyone has a right to their own privacy.

“You are more likely to find a garage door and a 3-D printer than book-lined offices and closed-off classrooms, more likely to huddle with peers at a round table than go to a lecture hall with seats for 100.” This reminds me of the curve room in Library South.

“Exposure to natural light itself contributes to improved workplace performance.” Some students rather sit in isolated places. There should be some evidence to back up this statement.

“There’s also much more to do with your hands than take notes in class: The need to move your body, by working on a prototype, taking the stairs or going in search of caffeine at a centralized cafe, is built in, providing breaks to let the mind wander.” Personally, I rather write notes. Writing notes help me more than hands on activities. I am also able to go back to the notes when needed.

“A thousand students applied for the 400 beds this fall, and 37 percent of the chosen are women. “It’s important to have a critical mass of women involved so women will come in,” he said. “Engineering is very heavily male, the business school is more male than female, but we are getting applicants from the fine arts, humanities and health sciences. Students have 35 to 40 different majors, and that happened pretty organically.”” It should be equally balanced.

 

 

In the first paragraph of “Recognizing Campus Landscapes as Learning Spaces”, Scholl and Gulwadi talks about the changes and challenges that are currently taking place. The author also states the first part of the thesis. It states “we propose that the natural landscape of a university campus is an attentional learning resource for its students.” The rest of the article provides claims and reasoning to support the thesis.

Throughout the article, the authors explain what is expected of a university. For example, how a campus should look. The authors talks about how the campus as a whole should be seen promoting learning. They express how a campus should be designed to reflect holistic learning. Scholl and Gulwadi highlight concepts to promote campus planning that will provide holistic learning experience. The article states “The concepts are – 1) direct and indirect attention and restoration, and 2) a holistic landscapes.”

The authors give historical context regarding to the evolution of college campuses and open spaces. The authors believe learning environments should be balanced between technology and nature.

The authors provide the concepts of attention and its impact on student learning and holistic landscape for holistic learning. In the article, it states students can have very short attention spans. It also states technology can cause students to get distracted easily. Scholl and Gulwadi believe open space with nature surrounding the campus will help students focus. It also provides a chart for reference about students interaction in different locations on campus. The authors describe the importance of open spaces.

The last few paragraphs provide the conclusion. The conclusion goes over everything that was stated in the article and draws in the main claims to support the thesis. Scholl and Gulwadi provide a list of references they used at the end of the article.

SCHOLL, Kathleen G; GULWADI, Gowri Betrabet. Recognizing Campus Landscapes as Learning Spaces. Journal of Learning Spaces, [S.l.], v. 4, n. 1, july 2015. ISSN 21586195. Available at: <http://libjournal.uncg.edu/jls/article/view/972/777>. Date accessed: 07 oct. 2016.

 

 

Sarah Schindler’s article focuses on the practice of architectural exclusion. Schindler gives us a brief abstract of what her article was about. She also gives a brief summary about herself.  In the introduction, she mentions Robert Moses as the “Master Builder” of New York. Moses shapes New York’s infrastructure. She also mentions the MARTA (Metropolitan Atlanta Regional Transit Authority). She states “… opposed efforts to expand MARTA…”. (pg .6)The wealthy opposed it, because they believe it would lead to unwanted crime and violence. She introduces a couple forms of exclusion that wasn’t widely acknowledged. Architectural exclusion was practiced from physical barriers. It was built to control human behavior. It was also built to separate people according to their race and wealth. Because of some architectural barriers, certain groups of people couldn’t get access to different places. She states “Bridges were designed to be so low that buses could not pass under them in order to prevent people of color from accessing a public beach.” (pg.1.Abstract) Schindler’s argument was it should be better legal awareness for discrimination through infrastructure. Public transportation to certain places became limited due to architecture because of discrimination. Discrimination playes a big part in history that caused a lot of controversial.

Part 1 of Schindler’s article focuses on the way the built environment regulates people behavior. She states “…people have used varied methods to exclude undesirable individuals from places where they were not wanted.” (pg.24) She gives an example that Lessig provided. He states “That a highway divides two neighborhoods limits the extent to which the neighborhoods integrate…These constraints function in a way that shapes behavior…”. (pg.50)  Schindler discusses the infrastructure in the design and talks about the symbolic contributors. She mentions the practice and effects of architectural exclusion and of the built environment. She states the built environment does not fit with the definition of regulation.

“Heaven´s gate, Gehry Buildings, Medienhafen Düsseldorf (series I)”

Part 2 of Schindler’s article mainly focused on examples of where architectural exclusion occurred in the past.She stated “This Part details a number of ways that states and municipalities—through actions by their residents, police force, planning staff, engineers, or local elected officials—have created infrastructure and designed their built environs to restrict passage through and access to other areas of the community. ” (pg. 80)  She mentioned a lot of examples in her article. One example she mentioned was how a physical barrier were used to separate a white neighborhood from a black neighborhood. Another example she mentioned was walled ghettos. Schindler also gave a present day example of architectural exclusion which is transit stops. Schindler stated “The examples of architectural exclusion identified in this Part are concerning in that they reveal a number of underlying problems.” (pg.194)

Schindler, S. (2015, April ). Architectural Exclusion: Discrimination and Segregation Through Physical Design of the Built Environment. Retrieved September 13, 2016, from Yale Law Journal, https://via.hypothes.is/http://www.yalelawjournal.org/article/architectural-exclusion