Innovative Raumkonzepte
für eine zeitgerechte Lernarchitektur
Sustainable Spatial Concepts at the University
Affiliated with the Center for Research and Transfer, the “Innovative Spatial Concepts” division supports the transfer activities of the Technische Hochschule Wildau – Technical University of Applied Sciences. The focus is on expanding and further developing collaborative work formats in teaching, research, and transfer. This is achieved, for example, through concepts such as coworking, co-innovation, co-creation, and other formats that promote flexibility and innovation at a modern university.
What We Offer
Join us in a discussion on the following topics…
Degree Programme and Teaching
Research and Transfer
Work and Collaboration
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"In light of the rapidly changing educational landscape and the next generation of students, the division aims to develop an open and forward-looking learning environment that fosters interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary collaboration, and is planning a sustainable and inclusive campus structure. To achieve this goal, the existing infrastructure at TH Wildau must be gradually redesigned and expanded.
Together, we will create customized solutions for a forward-looking campus. Resource-efficient and sustainable concepts will effectively drive the digitalization and increased flexibility of structures and processes at the university. This is currently being achieved, among other things, by involving all user groups (students, faculty, staff, and entrepreneurs). The goal is to provide the various user groups at the TH with an optimal teaching, learning, and working environment that supports self-directed work in the future. In this way, the various users articulate practical and application-oriented needs. Driven by innovative impulses from social, economic, and technological developments, new and independent formats are taking shape at the academic institution; their characteristics are defined by the spatial conditions and necessitate the development of large-scale projects."
- Manuel Ahnemüller
Teaching and Learning Spaces of the Future
Künftige Generationen von Studierenden kommen mit einem neuen Lehr- und Lernverständnis an die Hochschule. Sandra Hofmeister, Herausgeberin von "Schulbauten – Räume zum Lernen und für die Gemeinschaft" stellt klare Tendenzen der Schullandschaft vor (siehe Grafik). Demnach werden künftig ca. 30% des Unterrichts in Form von Frontalunterricht, 30% in Einzel-/ und Stillarbeit, 30% in Kleingruppen und weitere 10% in Gruppenarbeit stattfinden.
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What’s in the plans?
Future-oriented teaching, as well as the digitization and increased flexibility of structures and processes – TH Wildau aims to offer an unlimited variety of interdisciplinary transfer formats and application formats.
A sustainable campus, as well as modern work and living environments – TH Wildau aims to expand the use of its existing facilities in a way that meets the needs of specific user groups (rapid spatial and functional changes). Users should also be able to utilize the spaces for innovative co-creation processes. In addition to increasing space capacity, however, it is also important to establish a sustainable approach and, consequently, an accessible structure.
Why are we doing this?
Reforming learning and teaching spaces – TH Wildau aims to proactively initiate the process of increasing flexibility for creativity-enhancing teaching units, a trend already emerging in the (higher) education landscape. Additionally, the university aims to offer a higher quality of the campus experience.
How are we doing this?
Gradual optimization – The existing infrastructural framework is to be functionally expanded step by step to unlock untapped potential. This will involve increased use of modular furniture, as well as the timely and methodologically appropriate application of digital and analog media.
Presenter carts and presentation monitors
You can borrow carts and monitors on a daily basis from the Center for Research and Transfer for your workshops and seminars.
Find out more about what’s available here.
To do so, use one of the newly equipped seminar rooms in House 13. Reserve the rooms as usual through the room booking system.
Call to Action – Winter Semester 2022/23
Seeking Testers for the New Furniture in the Rooms of House 13
We are looking for volunteers for the 2022/23 winter semester to join an evaluation team for the newly furnished seminar rooms in House 13. Whether you’re a student, teacher, or staff member… everyone is welcome to put the rooms through their paces and then help optimize them through several rounds of improvements.
Interested in participating?
Send an email to:
New furniture in the rooms of House 13
April 8, 2022 – New Furniture in the Teaching and Learning Rooms in Building 13
At the start of the summer semester, five seminar rooms in Building 13 were equipped with new, flexible furniture. Rooms 13-027, 13-036, 13-037, 13-054, and 13-123, there is now modular furniture (single-seat tables, chairs with writing trays, and furniture carts) designed to offer you an unlimited variety of interdisciplinary, future-oriented, and creativity-enhancing formats for your classes.
The new furniture frees you from rigid layouts, and the lightweight tables allow for quiet, easy, and quick reconfiguration. Therefore, all TH users are invited to thoroughly test out the spaces. Not only teaching and student learning but also formal and informal meetings can take place here. A detailed description of the rooms can be found here.
To help your working group make the best use of the rooms, we are gradually making improvements to them. Next on the agenda are writable walls and modular partitions. Please feel free to let us know what’s still missing in the rooms or what could be improved. For the upcoming semester, we’re therefore looking for volunteers to test the rooms as part of an evaluation team. Your feedback helps us continuously improve the spaces. We look forward to working with you.
InnoX 2021 – Science Festival
September 23, 2021 – Open Spaces: Where Innovation Takes Shape
Open Labs, Open Science?! Labs as Open Spaces for Innovation – This discussion format addresses the question of the prerequisites and conditions for implementing and establishing so-called “open labs” as open spaces within the higher education landscape. What conditions must be in place within the administrative framework to make this happen? What structural challenges arise? Above all, however: How can we motivate researchers and university members to use a lab? The participants in this session have gained experience with and around labs as open spaces in various contexts and will share their insights.
More information at: www.innohub13.de/innox2021
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Moderator: Josefine Pritschkoleit (staff member at Innovation Hub13, Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg)
Speakers:
Manuel Ahnemüller (Management of Innovative Spatial Concepts, TH Wildau),
Dr. Jadranka Halilović (Manager, CO:Lab, BTU), and
Eva Ismer (Manager, ViNN:Lab, TH Wildau)
13th Wildau Library Symposium
September 14, 2021 – Libraries as Virtual and Physical Spaces
The 13th Wildau Library Symposium took place on September 14 and 15, 2021, as a virtual Webex conference. The event centered on the theme of “Space,” featuring keynote presentations by: Robert Niess (Chestnutt_Niess Architects), Prof. Dr. Suntje Schmidt (Leibniz Institute for Spatial Social Research), Dr. Stefanie Schreiber (BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, IKMZ), Kay Mantzel (Microsoft Germany), and Kai Wagner (Goethe-Institut, Munich).
The detailed conference report “What Makes a Space Special or Ordinary?” by Frank Seeliger and Johanna Gröpler is available at password-online.de
Program Advisory Board: Manuel Ahnemüller (TH Wildau), Brigitte Doellgast (Goethe-Institut Munich), Jens Ilg (SLUB Dresden), Frank Seeliger (TH Wildau), and Karin Wesendorf (Goethe-Institut Munich).
More information at: 13th Wildau Library Symposium
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June 10, 2021 – The “Innovative Space Concepts” project is developing concepts for future-proof and creative teaching and learning spaces
With the “Innovative Space Concepts” project, TH Wildau is setting the course for the future of its teaching and learning spaces. Scheduled to run through the end of 2023, the project involves numerous participants from the university administration, the faculties, various departments, and the University IT Centre, with the goal of initiating a process of increased flexibility to enable future-proof, creativity-enhancing teaching sessions and improve the quality of the environment within the university’s facilities…
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Contact person
Manuel Ahnemüller
Hochschulring 1, 15745 Wildau
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