Open AccessWhen the Experimental Lab is Itself the Experiment: Making Someone Else’s Design Work
Author(s) -
Jesse Strycker
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
international journal of designs for learning
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2159-449X
DOI - 10.14434/ijdl.v12i2.29132
Subject(s) - interim , stakeholder , variety (cybernetics) , space (punctuation) , implementation , process (computing) , work (physics) , computer science , path (computing) , public relations , sociology , engineering management , engineering ethics , process management , architectural engineering , knowledge management , business , engineering , political science , software engineering , artificial intelligence , law , mechanical engineering , programming language , operating system
The redesign of learning spaces has been a growing trend in education, especially higher education. The redesign of such spaces takes time and involves a variety of stakeholders, sometimes resulting in ill-defined designs. This can be exacerbated when individuals leading such efforts depart and there is not a consensus on the design, sometimes leading to vendors having a disproportionate say in final implementations. Understanding these differences and finding a way forward can fall on new stakeholders who are tasked with supporting such spaces after most of the foundational decisions have been made and/or carried out. This case explores one faculty member and designer’s experiences with helping to both design for and define such an ill-defined space. Included in this case are the story of the design of the space pieced together from before the author started his employment and the story since he became a stakeholder, stumbling blocks encountered after the space was built, strategies employed in the interim, discussing a path forward, and finally sharing realizations made during the process which will help his future efforts with designing such multi-stakeholder spaces in the future.