促进多样性、包容性和归属感:将空间带入对话

以此为基础, if we broaden the design investigation to promote inclusion by responding to the wide range of requirements of an increasingly diverse campus body, 我们最近的项目提出了以下建议:

• 与利益相关者进行深入而广泛的接触. 超越校园的核心项目领导, include students and broader communities and listen to multiple voices to uncover the specific needs and preferences of each project, 从而塑造敏捷, activity-responsive, place-centric设计.
• 拥抱空间体验的多样性. 在建筑和景观中学习, 研究和学生生活, 创造各种尺度的空间, arrangement and 清晰度 to offer varied options for informal gathering and beyond-classroom engagement.
• 探索健康的机会. By shifting the emphasis towards designing for the whole-person experience – and thereby fostering belonging and building community for a spectrum of persons – holistic design prioritizes strategies ranging from creating wellness-oriented spaces that maximize natural light and connections to nature, to those providing greater individual control of heat and air or to a broader set of food choices.

特别是在加拿大 真相与和解委员会的94项行动呼吁(2015) have spurred an ever-deeper conversation within design practices to meaningfully integrate Indigenous voices and ways of knowing into 项目. 随着各机构扩大土著学生的项目准入, 雇佣更多的土著教师，并创建住校老人项目, design 项目 are exploring ways to imbue indigenous approaches in collaboration with Indigenous design partners. 在AG平台 学习+ 在安大略省的实践中，最近有两个例子可以作为未来项目的先例:

• At the Campus Master Plan and related 项目 at Algoma University – an institution with strong ties with its Indigenous community and multi-generational Indigenous students base – all design explorations were highly collaborative and consensus-based. Project decisions evolved from an ongoing, respectful dialogue, framed by community leaders; and
• 当重新构想河滨时 渥太华大学健康科学校区, the design team sought engagement with campus and community-based Algonquin leadership to formulate seven-generation sustain能力 strategies, 通过景观促进整体健康, 并为项目塑造具有文化内涵的建筑形式.

我们知道这些都是早期的步骤. Pandemic life and the expansion of hybrid 教育 have only underscored the immense value of social engagement and shared spirit in bolstering effective learning and the overall student experience. As we return to campus with a greater mindfulness of the nuances of diversity and the imperative for inclusion, 我们对个人偏好有更深的理解, 受环境和个人经历的影响, 影响每个学生归属感的因素是什么. 作为设计师, with each campus project we continue to explore and define the collective foundations that underpin the project, while supporting a plurality of design strategies that come together to develop the rich tapestry of spatial experiences that foster inclusion in today’s campus communities.