Organized by
Saint Petersburg Electrotechnical University "LETI"
Nuffic Neso, Netherlands Education Support Office
Supported by Consulate General of the Netherlands in St. Petersburg
International educators and experts will discuss public and learning spaces of the long-biography universities challenged with the ‘preserve VS remove’ dilemma. Recent changes in life styles and education modes made the problem of obsolete and inefficiently used spaces even more acute for technical universities, which use the 19th – 20th century infrastructure. How can we create comfortable, inclusive and motivating environment in a historic campus with the ‘untouchable’ heritage? What spatial solutions are offered for productive studies and research work by modern university innovators? These and other questions will be answered by the best international and Russian professionals, which develop campuses of the Netherlands, Italy, Finland and Russia.
Online discussion opens the program dedicated to the 135-the anniversary of St. Petersburg Electrotechnical University (LETI). It includes the International Contest of Young Architects for developing the Four Signature Locations of the University.
Program
Ivar Scheers
Deputy consul general of the Netherlands in St.Petersburg
- Greeting speech
Anastasia Minina
In 2009 Ms. Minina graduated with honors from the Department of Information and Measurement Systems and Technology of ETU-LETI. She is Ph.D. and an associate professor in the same department. Her responsibilities as Vice-Rector include international and interregional communication and public relations. She also leads international research & education projects. Anastasia is the author and co-author of more than 60 published research papers and articles, monographs, textbooks and methodological guidelines, she is a speaker at high-level international forums and conferences on higher education, academic mobility and university research. At present Dr. Minina combines her work with studies in the Rector’s School of SKOLKOVO Moscow School of Management.
Vice Rector for International Relations, St. Petersburg Electrotechnical University (LETI)
Opening speech. LETI future campus as we see it: flexible intellectual space
In 2021 LETI celebrates its 135th birthday. Today the University looks further to its 150th anniversary and plans the future. Like other world technological universities founded in the epoch of industrial revolution, LETI needs solutions to match conflicting challenges: keep and give a new life to its heritage, and create innovative research and learning spaces to educate engineers and researchers for future economy, science and technology.
Dara Melnyk
Dara Melnyk, the Head of the Research Group, the SKOLKOVO Education Development Centre (SEDeC), Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO, curator of the Master of Arts in Experimental Higher Education, School of Advanced Studies, University of Tyumen.
Dara’s professional and research interests fall under the umbrellas of university transformation and experimental higher education. She takes part in strategy sessions and integrated programs for top Russian universities, prepares recommendations for the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of Russian Federation, and leads a small team of researchers analysts at the SKOLKOVO Education Development Centre. Dara curates the MA in Experimental Higher Education at the School of Advanced Studies, has taken part in the development of the University Transformation Simulator(UTS) and the University Transformation Challenge, a simulator based training program for university leaders. Dara frequently publishes in Russian and international media (see Dara’s profile on Ведомости, ТАСС, UWN, and her personal blog on Мел), Дара также является главным редактором the SEDeC blog.
Head of the Research Group, the SKOLKOVO Education Development Centre (SEDeC), Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO
Keynote speech. Higher education’s afterdark: old duties, new responsibilities
Fundamental duties of higher education— to produce, critique, transfer, and apply knowledge— have not changed. But new responsibilities have appeared. For one, the pandemic has exposed universities’ shortcomings, which now must be addressed. Secondly, the forced slowdown created a debt universities must now repay to their stakeholders. Finally, the general fear of repetition has created a demand universities can respond to, an empty place they should occupy. What is the roadmap for “the afterdark”—the world on the other side of the global crisis?
Pascale Leistra
In 1995 Pascale graduated at Delft Univesity of Technology. Since 1997 she has been working as a designer at atelier PRO and since 2004 she operates as architect project leader.
To Pascale the 'architectural route' is indispensable in the process to develop ideas and accomplish successful design projects. The routing through an environment, building, or space on the one hand and the sensation of elements like light, color, texture and contrasts on the other hand, play a game with each other.
Over the years, she has been working on Atelier PRO various projects, many of which deal with new or renovated “knowledge and learning” places - universities, schools, libraries. One of them is Letovo Education Hub in New Moscow.
Senior architect, Atelier PRO, guest teacher at Technical University Delft (the Netherlands)
Keynote speech. Burden or Opportunity? Can heritage buildings be made suitable for next generations’ education and bring added value for the city?
Today’s education requires inspiring and flexible spaces to adapt to a rapidly changing society. What this means for educational buildings in general, Russian practice and, specifically, for historical 19thcentury buildings.
The importance of interdisciplinary exchanges of students is growing. How can space stimulate them? What is the potential of a campus in the urban fabric?
Innovative cases of European Universities
Prof. Antonella Longo
Antonella Longo, Ph.D. in Information Engineering since 2004. She teaches Data Management and Big data management for decision making at Management Engineering and Business school master courses. Her research interests deal with information systems and databases, service-oriented architectures design for cloud and edge infrastructure, technology-enhanced learning and citizen science. Her current research activity focuses on big data management and exploration of cloud architecture integration with edge computing in cyber-physical social systems. On these topics, she has published more than 100 papers in peer-reviewed journals and international conference proceedings. She is the scientific coordinator of DiDa, the departmental research center about technology enhanced learning and carries out her research activity in the SyDA group (Systems, Data and Applications) at University of Salento, where she coordinates the research activities about service modelling and computing and the applications in smart cities.
University of Salento (Italy)
UniSalento Way: From real to digital lab spaces
Laboratories and experimental activities are an integral part of the engineering and STEM education. Physical spaces show severe constraints due to the need of a location, equipment and maintenance, compliance with safety requirements and technical personnel to operate and supervise. Solutions can be provided by digital technologies. The University of Salento is developing virtual labs for educational activities of students who can't be physically present. Moreover, UniSalento is developing remote laboratories to diversify research opportunities of PhDs and researchers. These novel approaches are pursued in the Engineering Department strategy to strengthen internationalization and inclusiveness.
Jasper van Winden
Jasper van Winden works as a project manager for educational innovations at Utrecht University, a wide range international research university with 6.700 staff members and 30.000 students. Van Winden leads the multidisciplinary project Future Learning Spaces that aims to experiment with new concepts to explore how the physical learning environment can contribute to Utrecht University’s vision on education.
His interest into learning spaces started, while teaching in the Biology department, with the observation that traditional learning spaces were limiting him in implementing the core principles from Utrecht University’s vision on education. Next year he designed his own active learning classroom in the university’s Teaching & Learning Lab. The promising results lead to the start of the project Future Learning Spaces. As manager of this project, he now seeks to inspire teachers, policy makers, and administrators to rethink their learning spaces to improve learning.
Project manager for educational innovations at Utrecht University
Utrecht Concept: From lecture rooms to learning spaces shaped by innovative knowledge transfer concepts
Utrecht University has translated its vision of institutional educational into six didactic principles for the physical learning environment. They have been the starting point for the design of new Learning Spaces concepts for Utrecht University. These concnepts have been discussed and developed in co-creation sessions with students, teachers and experts. Now the UU is having Active Learning Classroom, Hybrid Active Learning Classroom, Virtual Classroom, Teaching and Learning Lab and discussing the feasibility of Collaborative Classroom, the Learning Plaza and the Innovation Lab.
Ari Lindeman
Ari Lindeman is a Research Manager at South-Eastern Finland University of Applied Sciences (Xamk), Creative Industries Research Unit, Finland. He is responsible for interdisciplinary R&D project development and research in the intersection of creative fields and business development. He was an ASLA-Fulbright Grantee at the Department of Philosophy, University of South Florida, in 2000-2003. He has worked earlier as a management consultant in the private sector and studied management and consulting at Turku School of Economics Finland, UMIST/Manchester School of Management, WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management, and University of Helsinki. He has published quite extensively in Finnish research & development publications, in addition to Routledge Studies in Innovation, Organisation and Technology, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, and Finnish-Russian research publications. His research interests focus on leadership, interdisciplinarity, entrepreneurial ecosystems and creative economy as well as philosophy of education.
Research Manager at South-Eastern Finland University of Applied Sciences (Xamk)
XAMK Solution: Building inspiring learning and working spaces on the values of old and new
Case: Paja Design Studio in an old Russian military base from 1912
The presentation discusses the values of space solutions integrating the new Paja Design Studio and historical buildings of the campus area originally built as a Russian military base in 1912. The site is located in the City of Kouvola, Finland, which resides half way between Helsinki and St. Petersburg.
Andrey Surovenkov
Andrey Surovenkov graduated from Saint Petersburg University of Architecture and Civil Engineering (SPbGASU) in 2000, following that he worked in different design bureaus. In parallel with that he was writing his thesis, which he defended in 2005. Today Dr. Surovenkov is the Head of Design of Architectural Environment in SPbGASU. Starting from 2016 he is the research manager of master’s programs.
Architect, Head of Architectural Environment Design Department in Saint Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering (SPbGASU).
High-density urban university environment or what is designed by students today.
Case: Urban campus with strong interaction of research, culture and business functions centered on the recreation zone.
Young Russian architects develop new formats of urban campuses. SPbGASU Masters have made design proposals for the public-oriented urban campus, which matches learning and research spaces with business facilities and cultural infrastructure including museums and libraries. The enveloping component of the design is the smart recreation zone.
Vice Rector for International Relations, St. Petersburg Electrotechnical University (LETI)
Concluding speech and presentation of Contest LETI Future Academic spaces
The discussion on academic spaces, which integrate new approaches to learning and creative activities in the university is the impetus for concrete LETI revitalization projects. These projects will grow from the new initiative – International Contest of Young architects LETI Future Academic spaces.
Tatiana Talalaeva
Tatiana Talalaeva has been in the international project management for more than 20 years. In her previous position of the Director for international relations in the Guild of Property Managers and Developers she led and managed government-to-government and experience transfer projects, and introduced the US and British professional education courses to Russia. Since recently in LETI, she is responsible for developing new international projects aimed at promoting SPb ETU (LETI) as a the global university and at establishing cooperative exchanges with world universities.
Manager of international projects in St. Petersburg State Electrotechnical Universality - LETI
Host of the Discussion
