Departments – Page 3 – Learning By Design Magazine

Department

Fall 2025

How it is Made

The Coalition for the Advanced Understanding of School Environments

Fall 2025

What Gets Measured Gets Better: Part 2

As the Coalition for the Advanced Understanding of School Environments (CAUSE) gains ground in the industry, this topic is just another facet of how we can look at physical infrastructure not just as a commodity but as an asset.

Book Review

Fall 2025

People-Centered Architecture: Design, Practice, & Education

A New Book Connecting the Sciences of People and the Wisdom of Non-Architects to Pragmatic Architectural Design

The Association for Learning Environments

Fall 2025

Building a Foundation

Workforce housing, often built on underutilized district-owned land, offers a compelling solution: to create affordable, below-market rental housing for teachers and staff to live in the communities they serve.

American Institute of Architects: Committee on Architecture for Education

Fall 2025

Student Engagement: A Call to Action

Five firms across the country have integrated student input into educational design— with positive, innovative, and inclusive outcomes.

Association of University Interior Designers

Summer 2025

A Summer Day in the Life of a Campus Project Manager

I’m one of a team of three project managers and one senior interior designer that support 5.1M+ GSF of facilities in Campus Services under Student Engagement and Wellbeing, which includes the Student Center, Housing, Dining Services, Health Center, Recreation Center, Bookstore, and Buzzcard ID Office. I love to share my experience and bridge a gap in the languages of our campus end users and our contracted design professionals to help understand each other more efficiently when designing projects that meet the needs of our campus community. It makes us better project by project.

The Coalition for the Advanced Understanding of School Environments

Summer 2025

What Gets Measured Gets Better: Part 1

American Institute of Architects: Committee on Architecture for Education

Summer 2025

Achieving Net-Zero Energy in Educational Facilities

Editorial

Summer 2025

It Takes a Village

No matter what your role: Administrator, Educator, Architect, Planner, Designer, Facilities Executive, or Community Member, others will trust you to lead, and will appreciate that you show respect for their ideas and situations, resulting in things getting passed and done together.

School Bond Update

Summer 2025

Building Resilience: The Importance of School Leadership

Successful capital planning includes an assessment of current building conditions, capacity/enrollment, educational need, safety, health, and compliance. True resilience comes from integrating physical and financial strategies, ensuring a fair and equitable distribution of resources.

The Association for Learning Environments

Summer 2025

Design for Belonging in Learning Environments

Association of University Interior Designers

Spring 2025

Ask a Designer: Balancing Expectations

On college campuses across the United States, and likely the world, university interior design is a challenge. As students and faculty converge to consider learning’s limitless equations, their pursuits are facilitated by tables, chairs, laboratory and AV equipment, and fixed finishes that define modern higher education. Considering the situational requirements of academia’s many types of spaces, user needs, and functionality of furnishings within the constraints of space, time, and money requires special fortitude and certainty of purpose.