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the spaces in the building – and how they were interwoven with IT provision to help students get the best out of lessons and connect with external institutions across the world. Dhaliwal comments: “The programmes of study are underpinned by an interdisciplinary, data-rich and challenge- led approach which blend online and on-campus engagement and connect global cohorts of students in new ways.” The teaching spaces and digital learning environments were designed to enable “shared on-campus and online teaching and learning activity.” This means that individual classes, lectures and contributions are recorded and livestreamed so that they can be shared – “so students can build a learning community – across modes and time-zones.” Students studying online have a presence in on-campus classrooms via video, audio and text, and conversely, students studying on- campus can work with teams located across the globe.
Many courses feature ‘fusion learning’ consisting of a mix of presentations, discussions and group work. Most of the teaching spaces were designed to facilitate this type of learning with specially equipped room cameras and ceiling microphones to foster inclusive discussions and learning between online and on-campus participants. In addition, hybrid team and group work is facilitated by tables equipped with dual monitors, microphones and speakers, and a camera.
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The Futures Institute, which opened in summer 2024, already has more than 250 external partners and organisations co-located in the co-working ‘cluster spaces.’ These include Fintech Scotland and Natwest Group, Architecture & Design Scotland, Innovation Unit, Nesta, Police Scotland, and Public Health Scotland. Creative sector partners include Activity Stream, Brightside Studios, Create Future, TakeNote, and Ray Interactive, and there are a further range of partners in the data services sector.
The building also hosts 13 different research groups from across the university’s three colleges, totalling over 150 researchers. Disciplines studied include ethical AI, including the Bridging Responsible AI Divides (BRAID) project and a new Doctoral Training Centre which is training the next generation of researchers and innovators in designing “responsible and trustworthy natural language processing,” with more set to arrive in 2025.
Site & existing condition The building was in “a really poor state,” says Tinsdale, with the NHS having stopped its maintenance regime before it was decanted, around 14 years before the start of this project. “They had lost fl oors, there was water ingress through the solum spaces and in the roof,” he explains. Bennetts Associates ended up working on the project for a constant 10 year period, almost as custodians of this important asset.
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The university wanted to create a “much more collaborative type of teaching space,” and have a fruitful mix of tenanted spaces
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