Nader Tehrani | Pedagogical Constructs

FALL 2014 Arriscraft Lecture Series

Nader Tehrani

NADAAA, Boston

 

THURSDAY OCTOBER 9th

7:00 pm  Main Lecture Hall, School of Architecture

Everyone is welcome and encouraged to attend. This event is free and open to the public.

 

Pedagogical Constructs

Spaces of Learning are changing radically as a result of the internet revolution, online education, and the democratization of information. Among other things, this has led us from a culture of specialization to interdisciplinary collaborations, with teams of experts coming together to form much more sophisticated pedagogies for ever-more complex societal challenges. However, the traditional school has not yet been re-evaluated for these changes in thinking and, thus, this is an opportunity to rethink the institution from the perspective of Spaces of Learning. This lecture will speak to three different institutions, each with broad ambitions in changing their way of learning and sharing information. The lecture will inspect new technologies, organizations, and the question of flexibility in a time where budgets and economies are being challenged in more stringent ways. So, too, this is an opportunity to think of the new Space of Learning to become a didactic instrument, to teach by way of example, and to become a form of built pedagogy.