The fundamental aim of work on the Campus Plan is to identify the University’s interests and the important things to provide. All the faculties have had representatives at the workshops.
So far, three thematic workshops have been organised, focusing on learning environments, outdoor environments and sustainable work environments. The Campus Development Council has invited key representatives from all the faculties to each workshop, based on the theme and issues. The faculties’ representatives have included vice-deans, teaching staff, student representatives, the Occupational Health Service, visiting professors and deans.
The insight from the workshop sessions is that our organisational units vary widely regarding education environments and work environments. There is thus a need for variation in environments that meet our different needs. At the same time, there is much in common. It is important to find common denominators. This could be design and technology that make our environments easy to understand, how they are to be used and making everyone feel welcome. The digital tools that have become a part of our everyday work due to the pandemic have also given us new options that affect our teaching, environments and campus. The work has also shown that most people want to be on campus. The Campus Plan will guide us on how to achieve this.
Before each workshop, there is a review of the theme in question to determine how new knowledge and perspectives can be used as input for the participants. This could be a lecture, online seminar or through an expert participating in the workshop.
It is important to see where the needs for the University differ and when different organisational units need different types of support in the physical environment in order to perform a little better.
During the spring there will be discussion with external partners, primarily the City of Lund, property owners and Region Skåne. There are also plans for discussions with architects about different parts of the campus.
The next seminar will cover the University’s external engagement. Mary Walshok is the speaker and the host is the Campus Development Office in cooperation with LU Collaboration.