Publications
“Essentially There: Higher Education Returns to Serve”
Planning for Higher Education Journal | Volume 49, Number 1 | Society for College and University Planning (SCUP) | November 2020
The education sector is excluded from the 16 official “Critical Infrastructure Sectors” managed by the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency. As the world grapples with a pandemic, this omission lays bare a disconnection between critical infrastructures serving daily life and the ground plane of learning and knowledge creation on which they are built; such a severing between ground plane and structure does not bode well for the entire assembly. For us to flourish as a society, higher education institutions—already grounded in a landscape of learning and knowledge creation—need to be a foundational support to essential infrastructures sustaining daily life in communities small and large.
https://www.scup.org/resource/essentially-there-higher-education-returns-to-serve/
“Reading Here, There, and Everywhere: Planning for Reading Spaces, Technologies, and Materials in an Evolving Digitally Enhanced Abundant Information Landscape”
Planning for Higher Education Journal | Volume 45, Number 2 | Society for College and University Planning (SCUP) | January 2017
The thickening and expanding digital layer of our world has prompted us to reevaluate how we navigate through it and also what, why, where, when, and how we read the things within it. In an institutional setting, reading for learning and research is no longer confined to the printed page or the campus; this has led to a hubbub by those who fear an embrace of digital technologies will in some way diminish students culturally, intellectually, creatively, and emotionally. Sorting through the hubbub, there is reason to be optimistic as examples abound of how the digital layer enhances learning and knowledge creation. Institutions have an important role here: they have the heft to help drive innovative practices, policies, technologies, materials, and spaces for reading now and tomorrow in this hybrid physical-digital information landscape.
https://www.scup.org/resource/reading-here-there-and-everywhere/
“There Is a There There: Connected Learning Communities in a Digital Age”
Planning for Higher Education Journal | Volume 43, Number 4 | Society for College and University Planning (SCUP) | Sept 2015
Republished in Campus Matters edition | Volume 44, Number 3 | Society for College and University Planning (SCUP) | April 2016
We are seeing an emergent campus type driven by a desire around the world for economically accessible, community-focused—and community-grown—learning and knowledge creation in a networked digital age. While questions about the future of the traditional campus have been a central focus of higher education discussions, off to the side there is a groundswell of learning activities that is all about the “there” there while also being everywhere. Grounded in physical communities, these activities strive to connect home, school, and work in a continuous lifelong learning path nourished by open digital resources. This is the Networked Community (College) for the growing legions of Citizen Learners. While seemingly peripheral to traditional higher education, this new model represents an approach that increasingly will be central to learning and knowledge creation in the 21st century not only beyond a traditional institution’s boundaries but also at its very core.
“Is There a There There? Online Education and ArchitectureX”
Planning for Higher Education Journal | Volume 42, Number 3 | Society for College and University Planning (SCUP) | June 2014
Republished in Research Journal | Volume 06.01 | Perkins+Will | May 2014
Will online education render the traditional university campus irrelevant? Is there a there there when it comes to online education? What makes the flesh-and-blood, brick-and-mortar material realm still relevant—even essential—to education? While online education has brought with it radical transformation, bringing people together in physical space is and will be essential for student success. The reasons for coming together, however, are changing; institutions must adapt if they are to remain vital. Institutions need to know where they stand. What is their “there”? What can they do “there” that cannot be done online?
“How to Build a City” (Rem Koolhaas Harvard Project on the City)
Mutations | Actar | 2000