Architectural Design UG4, Spring 2019
Wallenberg Studio, Inclusion
Instructor: Brittany Utting
Collaboration with: Everritt Phillips
Published (2020), Dimensions 33

Education is becoming increasingly reliant on images. The forces shaping education are no longer physical, their networks lying in a virtual reality. Learnscapes speculates on a future of education in which the virtual completely consumes the space of learning.

Through the transformation of the warehouse to the data center, the space tracks the evolution of both physical and digital storage. Storing both the physical and digital transformations within the digital servers and physical storage space, the archive acknowledges and embraces the obsolescence of technology in a digital pedagogy.

The floor becomes a data map, showing physical and digital material paths and proximities of users. Physical items have been tagged and stored in the archive, showing the obsolescence of digital technology.

The digitally constructed atmospheres of the virtual platform allows for precise exploration of spatial experiences, such that users can enter and create their own realities.

LEARNSCAPES enables a greater number of people to participate in the development of their educational reality. The educational framework allows individuals to understand and evaluate their experience through their own filters.