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Forming Community, Fomenting Collaboration: The Impact of Intentional Design

Dundee Lackey

Texas Woman’s University

dlackey@twu.edu

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D. Christopher Brooks, “Space and Consequences: The Impact of Different Formal Learning Spaces on Instructor and Student Behavior”

Nancy Van Note Chism: “Challenging Traditional Assumptions and Rethinking Learning Spaces”

Flexibility

Comfort

Sensory Stimulation

Technology Support

Decenteredness

The New London Group, “A Pedagogy of Multiliteracies: Designing Social Futures” “The

idea of Design is one that recognizes the different Available Designs of meaning, located as they are in different cultural contexts. The

metalanguage

of

multiliteracies

describes the elements of Design, not as rules, but as an heuristic that accounts for the infinite variability of different forms of meaning-making in relation to the cultures, the subcultures, or the layers of an individual's identity that these forms serve. At the same time, Designing restores human agency and cultural dynamism to the process of meaning-making. Every act of meaning both appropriates Available Designs and recreates in the Designing, thus producing new meaning as The Redesigned. In an economy of productive diversity, in civic spaces that value pluralism, and in the flourishing of interrelated, multilayered, complementary yet increasingly divergent

lifeworlds

, workers, citizens, and community members are ideally creative and responsible makers of meaning. We are, indeed, designers of our social

futures” (88).

Multiliteracies for a Digital Age,Stuart Selber

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