Abstract
The global health pandemic has shined a harsh light on the challenges that humanity faces, and forced -amongst many other major changes in our daily lives- an abrupt shift to online education during more than three semesters. However, we all hope that the improvements in the mitigation of the crisis will allow the reopening of our Faculty to in-person education in the first quarter of the 2021/2022 academic year.
With this hope in mind, BK Expo is organizing the exhibition What have we learned? aimed at celebrating the return to a certain normality after lockdown. The show will be held at the new exhibition spaces in the Oostserre of the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment.
For over one and a half years, we all have moved to remote modes of living. We have missed all sorts of sensory experiences; we have missed shaking hands, giving hugs or being able to take care of a sick relative; and we have missed physically sharing our work and ideas with others. The whole academic community and the Faculty’s staff had to use new methods of teaching, researching, studying, working and communicating, but we have shown the most resilience and have adapted to the new situation very quickly.
It will be some time before we know the full impact of the COVID-19-induced shift to remote learning - how it altered the arc of students' academic careers, for example, or affected the extent and nature of learning. Nevertheless, the exhibition What have we learned? would like to shine a positive light on the -hopefully past- work-from-home period.
The exhibition What have we learned? will share teachers’, students’ and staff’s positive experiences and show what we have learned, improved, and want to keep in the post-pandemic period. We have had no choice but to be more flexible than probably ever before.
We have also learned that some extra tech can be useful in the future, that our audiences may be broader, that we do not have to be in the room where things happen to be in the room where it happens. Collaboration between different institutions or remotely located collaborators has soared, and even some have enjoyed better climates when working from their home countries…
What have we learned? wonders what is worth keeping from over a year at home behind our computers. Besides, What have we learned? aims at reminding us all that the social spaces provided by educational facilities need to be protected. The Faculty as physical space is essential: what innovations are thus worth strengthening and developing in parallel to traditional classroom organization?
What have we learned? aims at providing a physical space where we can make up for the lost time that the pandemic forced us to spend apart.
With this hope in mind, BK Expo is organizing the exhibition What have we learned? aimed at celebrating the return to a certain normality after lockdown. The show will be held at the new exhibition spaces in the Oostserre of the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment.
For over one and a half years, we all have moved to remote modes of living. We have missed all sorts of sensory experiences; we have missed shaking hands, giving hugs or being able to take care of a sick relative; and we have missed physically sharing our work and ideas with others. The whole academic community and the Faculty’s staff had to use new methods of teaching, researching, studying, working and communicating, but we have shown the most resilience and have adapted to the new situation very quickly.
It will be some time before we know the full impact of the COVID-19-induced shift to remote learning - how it altered the arc of students' academic careers, for example, or affected the extent and nature of learning. Nevertheless, the exhibition What have we learned? would like to shine a positive light on the -hopefully past- work-from-home period.
The exhibition What have we learned? will share teachers’, students’ and staff’s positive experiences and show what we have learned, improved, and want to keep in the post-pandemic period. We have had no choice but to be more flexible than probably ever before.
We have also learned that some extra tech can be useful in the future, that our audiences may be broader, that we do not have to be in the room where things happen to be in the room where it happens. Collaboration between different institutions or remotely located collaborators has soared, and even some have enjoyed better climates when working from their home countries…
What have we learned? wonders what is worth keeping from over a year at home behind our computers. Besides, What have we learned? aims at reminding us all that the social spaces provided by educational facilities need to be protected. The Faculty as physical space is essential: what innovations are thus worth strengthening and developing in parallel to traditional classroom organization?
What have we learned? aims at providing a physical space where we can make up for the lost time that the pandemic forced us to spend apart.
| Original language | English |
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| Publisher | Delft University of Technology, Faculteit Bouwkunde |
| Publication status | Published - 2021 |