Joan Lippincott, Associate Executive Director – Coalition for Networked Information (CNI)

Saturday November 3, 2018. As with past LSC roundtables, this was a four-hour conversation engaging academics and architects with diverse experiences in shaping spaces for 21st century learners, spaces that enhance institutional distinction. As with onsite roundtables that the LSC has hosted from 2016, threaded through these four hours was time for conversations and comments following […]

James Madison University Harrisonburg, Virginia OVERVIEW The 2019 Series of Learning Spaces Collaboratory Roundtables focuses on key issues to address in planning to plan spaces for 21st century learners. Roundtables provide opportunity for design professionals and academics to have conversations about planning that shift perspectives, create common understandings, and suggest new language and approaches. The […]

Host: Pamela E. Scott-Johnson, Dean, College of Natural and Social Sciences – California State University, Los Angeles Keynote Speaker: David J. Asai, Senior Director, Science Education – Howard Hughes Medical Institute   Registration for Campuses Registration for Architects The initial series of 4-hour LSC Roundtables was limited to 20 participants. Roundtables 2.0 have been expanded to a limit of […]

12:30 – 4:30 p.m. Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) In collaboration with the 2018 Institute on Project-Based Learning The Institute on Project-Based Learning draws on over 40 years of experience integrating project-based initiatives into undergraduate education including classroom projects in a wide range of disciplines, projects in the first year, major capstone projects, community-based projects, and study abroad […]

1:00 – 5:00 p.m. Stanford University This Stanford Roundtable focused on a particular spatial type—classrooms and formal learning environments.  It was of interest to planners, architects, educators, and users with the challenge or opportunity to design, use, assess classrooms and formal learning spaces.

VentureWell and the Learning Spaces Collaboratory have a long history of orchestrating conversations about learning spaces in the service of nurturing the creativity and entrepreneurial spirit of today’s students to become the innovators of the future. This LSC roundtable following the 2018 VW OPEN in Austin TX builds on these past collaborative efforts. For example: A 2009 Seminar. Sparked by the Lemelson Report […]