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INSIGHT
The Experimental, Experiential Office: What Workplace Can Learn from Retail, Education, and Airports
Gensler’s workplace leaders share what they’ve learned from helping clients across multiple industries navigate the new workplace ecosystem.
BLOG
Building a Better Academic Workplace
The 1,000-year-old academic workplace might finally have reached its breaking point — here's how to reengineer it in a smarter way.
INSIGHT
Master Planning for the Whole Student: Well-Being and Inclusivity in Higher Education
Gensler’s Education Leaders and administrators from top academic institutions share how colleges and universities can take a “whole student approach...
BLOG
Designing an Innovation District for the City of Austin
Austin’s Innovation District brings together education, entertainment, leisure, and sports. This type of urban, mixed-use center brings in new...
BLOG
3 Lessons From Today’s Students That Will Shape the Future Workplace
Coupling findings from Gensler’s Workplace Survey and Education Engagement Index research, we’ve identified three key findings that the future...
DESIGN FORECAST
2022
Design Forecast focuses on design strategies that will define the future of the human experience. With strategic advice, research, and projects from...
BLOG
Learning From Home: 3 Key Lessons for the Future of PreK-12 Learning
How can the experience of working, parenting, teaching, and learning from home inform opportunities for future learning environments? Here are three...
INSIGHT
Design Forecast 2022: Education
As students look to schools not just as places of learning — but as places to feel safe, engaged, and included — there will be an ongoing emphasis on...
BLOG
How Architects and Designers Can Continue to Prioritize Inclusivity in 2022
Roger Smith and Lisa Cholmondeley, co-directors of Gensler’s Center for Research on Equity and the Built Environment, talk about designing for...
BLOG
Reflecting on the First Year of Black Lives and Design Grants
Gensler’s Black Lives and Design grants fund research dedicated to addressing systemic racism, unconscious bias, and social justice.
BLOG
Campus Masterplan 2.0: Including an Integrated Wellness Strategy
Today's student is different. By creating a network of engagements and reinforcements throughout a student’s daily journey, academic institutions can...
RESEARCH
Education and the BIPOC Experience
We surveyed BIPOC students to understand how they perceive and experience education spaces in order to find new ways to design schools that make all...
BLOG
Why Understanding the BIPOC Student Experience Is Critical to the Future of Education
With a research grant from Gensler’s Center for Research on Equity and the Built Environment, this research aims to understand the complexities of...
BLOG
5 Considerations for Designing the Future of Higher Education
Learning has taken a hard hit during the COVID-19 pandemic, but the experience may lead to a future that is nothing like the past.
RESEARCH
Education Engagement Index 2021
A deep dive into how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted students and educators, and what these experiences reveal about the evolving future of...
BLOG
Delivering Wellness on Campus so Students Can Thrive
Here are five considerations for colleges and universities to create a campus-wide wellness ecosystem that supports students where they are.
BLOG
The Inclusion Utopia: Promoting a More Equitable and Inclusive Experience for Athletes
With over 100 anti-trans bills across the United States, we sought to understand how design can create opportunities for an inclusive and safe locker...
BLOG
What’s Next for Higher Education? Esports and On-Campus Gaming Facilities
Prior to the pandemic, the world of esports was a nearly billion-dollar industry. For higher education institutions, it also created a new...
RESEARCH
Hybrid Learning in Extreme Times
Investigating the effects of remote learning on student and educator experience.
BLOG
How New Learning Models Are Transforming the Student Experience
From micro-pods to new hybrid learning settings, new ideas are emerging about the student experience of the future.
BLOG
New Types of Space on Campus
After spending more than eight months studying the shifting space needs at colleges and universities, we see several trends shaping the next...
BLOG
Learning About Resilience at the UCLA Congo Basin Institute
Funded by the University of California at Los Angeles and the Institute of Tropical Agriculture, the Congo Basin Institute is a research and...
BLOG
Learning from the Pandemic to Create More Equitable Community Engagement
It’s important to understand how changes to community engagement best practices can be purposefully designed to create a more equitable process that...
BLOG
Design Ideas for the Post-Pandemic Public Library
Public libraries have long served as welcoming and equitable settings that offer important community resources, but the ongoing coronavirus health...
BLOG
How Education Can Build an Optimistic, Equitable Future
How can we impart positive change on our schools, colleges, and universities, to ultimately shape more equitable communities?
BLOG
6 Considerations for Transitioning Back to School
Here are some tools and considerations to guide academic institutions in transitioning back to campus.
BLOG
Why Today’s Universities Need to Be Global Institutions
How can universities mitigate a potential downturn? The answer is transnational education.
BLOG
A Day in the Life: Going Back to School in China
Here’s what we've learned from our colleagues in Gensler’s Shanghai office about school reopenings in China.
BLOG
What Going Back to School Might Look Like
What does the future of education look like, and what should schools be doing now to prepare?
BLOG
Planning for a Post-COVID Return to Campus
We're reflecting on the factors education leaders should consider in planning a return to school post-COVID-19, and what we can learn from this...
BLOG
Graduation Goes Digital for the Class of 2020
How can we use digital technologies to push events like virtual graduation ceremonies beyond traditional thinking?
BLOG
Will Campus Life Translate to a Virtual Environment?
COVID-19 has forced us to embrace a new reality rooted exclusively in virtual interactions. While we reflect on how educational institutions...
BLOG
We Are in the Midst of a Paradigm Shift for Higher Education
As we make short-term decisions to respond to the global pandemic, we will also have a long-term opportunity to reinvent the traditional university...
BLOG
Schooling Kids in the Power of Design
Our long-standing partnership with City Year aims to transform educational spaces with heart for the next generation.
BLOG
Designing for All Learners: 5 Myths Debunked
Instead of designing to the mythical “average learner” and adapting to accommodate outliers, it’s time we flip the model and design for all learners.
BLOG
Designing for Each Learner Through Digital Experience
As we design spaces for learning it is imperative that we integrate digital experiences into them thoughtfully; to connect people, accommodating...
BLOG
Building a More Inclusive University Environment
Small universities are having a hard time providing physical space for their diverse student populations. These campuses are often landlocked and...
BLOG
Designing Informal Learning Environments with 826 National
Today, educating the next generation isn’t just happening within schools, but in informal learning environments as well. 826 National, a...
DIALOGUE ARTICLE
Client Interview: Matt Wunder, Da Vinci Schools
An interview with Matt Wunder, of Da Vinci Schools, to learn how these public charter schools are implementing project-based education and providing...
DIALOGUE ARTICLE
Project Spotlight: Redesigning Today's Schools for Tomorrow's Learners
Uniting three independent charter schools under one roof, Wiseburn USD and Da Vinci Schools in Southern California are a model for next-gen learning...
DIALOGUE ARTICLE
Academic Incubators Are Seeding a New Wave of Innovation
Academic incubators are becoming engines for new economies, knowledge networks, and R&D.
DIALOGUE ARTICLE
A Place for Whimsy, Wonder & Imagination
An education nonprofit is employing design and creative thinking to give underserved youth a place to explore their creativity and improve their...
DIALOGUE ARTICLE
Taking Down the Walls
How new models are helping universities and research labs prepare for futures they can’t even predict.
BLOG
A Restroom for Everyone
We documented the historical, political, legislative, and cultural impacts of designing gender-inclusive restrooms; and to identify best practices...
RESEARCH
Learning Spaces: A Toolkit
Can we quantify the impact of active learning environments on student outcomes?
PUBLICATION
Learning Ecologies: Can the City Be Our Classroom
Major ideas and questions that emerged from a series of three roundtable discussions focusing on experiential learning and hosted in Gensler’s San...
RESEARCH
A High-Performance Place for Learning
Exploring the future of education via new takes on the learning environment.
DIALOGUE ARTICLE
Learning That Sticks
Dwight-Englewood School’s Hajjar STEM Center models where K-12 is headed.
RESEARCH
Graphic Learners
An investigation of integrating graphic design into school environments to enrich educational opportunities.
RESEARCH
Libraries are for Studying
How do students envision the present and future academic library? Students value the academic library as a bastion of quiet and a prime place to...
DIALOGUE ARTICLE
Education Gets Its Game On
From middle schools to universities, the push is on to speed up learning and spark people’s creativity. Tech figures heavily in this, but place is...
DIALOGUE ARTICLE
A Student View of Academic Libraries
While much of their content is web accessible, libraries endure on the campus. New Gensler research looks at their current and future use.
RESEARCH
Role of Learning Spaces: A Comparative Analysis
We partnered with seven universities to track students transitioning from classrooms to enhanced learning spaces.
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