Discussion with Fiona Duggan
Earlier this week I was fortunate enough to have a discussion with Fiona Duggan of D.E.G.W. who is a consultant to the college on the move to Greenwich. Below are the key points of what was said and I have also cut together the first Rave2012 podcast which you can listen to or download here:
- Fiona began by clearing up the fact that the fact that the architects for the new site are infact Foreign Office Architects, an international couple that do a lot of international projects.
- Fiona then highlighted an organisation named The Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC).
- Podcasting Lectures - The U.S. (MIT, Stanford etc.) have been casting their lectures publicly for a couple of years. They did it on the basis that the information itself is worth very little, what is important with a college education is the affiliation with the institution and the networks you build up from an institute like MIT or Stanford. These institutes are starting to see a shift in the importance of the value of intellectual property and more and more you will see the information from lecturers becoming available to the public.
People still want the college environment for the relationships and the networks, and fundamentally you are buying you're acreditted degree.
- Fiona agreed that more and more qualifications alone are meaning less and less as they are so easy to come by, and the work itself, especially in creative industries, is increasingly meaning more and more.
- The architects on the project (Foreign Office Acrchitects) are not primarily a sustainable design orientated company. They see it more as a piece of what can be done. Although Fiona described them as a responsible design company in terms of the environment.
- Peter Hammond was bought up who is a sustainabile design consultant bought into the project by F.O.A.
- Fiona said that one important theme that I should definately cover is that of new technologies, and the design of new environments that support these new styles of learning.
- We then spoke about the use of public, multi purpose space within educational environments, and how these would play a big role in the new "time shared" studio scenario and how increasingly more students are using their own computers to complete their projects.
- Fiona began by clearing up the fact that the fact that the architects for the new site are infact Foreign Office Architects, an international couple that do a lot of international projects.
- Fiona then highlighted an organisation named The Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC).
- Podcasting Lectures - The U.S. (MIT, Stanford etc.) have been casting their lectures publicly for a couple of years. They did it on the basis that the information itself is worth very little, what is important with a college education is the affiliation with the institution and the networks you build up from an institute like MIT or Stanford. These institutes are starting to see a shift in the importance of the value of intellectual property and more and more you will see the information from lecturers becoming available to the public.
People still want the college environment for the relationships and the networks, and fundamentally you are buying you're acreditted degree.
- Fiona agreed that more and more qualifications alone are meaning less and less as they are so easy to come by, and the work itself, especially in creative industries, is increasingly meaning more and more.
- The architects on the project (Foreign Office Acrchitects) are not primarily a sustainable design orientated company. They see it more as a piece of what can be done. Although Fiona described them as a responsible design company in terms of the environment.
- Peter Hammond was bought up who is a sustainabile design consultant bought into the project by F.O.A.
- Fiona said that one important theme that I should definately cover is that of new technologies, and the design of new environments that support these new styles of learning.
- We then spoke about the use of public, multi purpose space within educational environments, and how these would play a big role in the new "time shared" studio scenario and how increasingly more students are using their own computers to complete their projects.
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