| Start Date: | 4/14/2014 | Start Time: | 9:30 AM |
| End Date: | 4/14/2014 | End Time: | 11:30 AM |
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Event Description
How do the learning environments fit into the work practices of today’s faculty and students? Are the spaces we are currently developing what students and faculty want or need?
In her talk, New Methods for University Building Design, Nancy Fried Foster will discuss ways that knowledge gained through ethnographic methods can be used with modest training and guidance. Dr. Foster will propose a way of envisioning library and other university spaces that departs from precedent and seeks to support emerging academic work practices. Actual projects and information about traditions in design will provide the context for this speculative presentation.
Nancy Fried Foster is a senior anthropologist at Ithaka S+R, a research and consulting service that helps academic, cultural, and publishing communities in making the transition to the digital environment. In her work, she helps libraries and organizations to understand their users and to design improved and new spaces, services, and technologies. Nancy holds a PhD from Columbia University; Dipl. from the University of Oxford; and BA from Barnard College.
Click here to RSVP: http://libcal.library.drexel.edu/event.php?id=624751 |
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Location:
Library Learning Terrace
Race Street Residence Hall
33rd & Race Streets
Philadelphia PA |
Audience:
AlumniParents & FamiliesCurrent StudentsFacultyPublicStaffGraduate Students |
Special Features:
Free Food |
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