The spaces we work in: consultation about Curtin's Architecture and Planning building

In 2009, Curtin University made an in-principle commitment to a ‘re-life’ project for Building 201, which houses its School of Built Environment. The project, Build 201.1, was to represent a major overhaul of the building’s space, which has been subject to ad hoc incremental, sometimes desperate and...

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Main Authors: MacCallum, Diana, Khan, Shahed
Other Authors: Andrew Butt
Format: Conference Paper
Published: La Trobe University 2012
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Online Access:http://anzaps.net/admin/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/ANZAPS-2012_full_web.pdf
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/39091
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description In 2009, Curtin University made an in-principle commitment to a ‘re-life’ project for Building 201, which houses its School of Built Environment. The project, Build 201.1, was to represent a major overhaul of the building’s space, which has been subject to ad hoc incremental, sometimes desperate and often disjointed changes to cope with changing demands through its forty-year history. In November 2011, the School took the highly unusual step of holding a stakeholder forum to identify user concerns and needs and, thus, inform the project definition statement (which will form the basis of a detailed budget and tender documents). In this paper we, as the organisers of that forum, reflect on its process and outcomes, in relation not only to the physical space we work in but – equally crucially – to the spaces of governance and communication that shape our institutional environment. This reflection is informed by responses from 20 of the forum’s 52 participants (students, academics, general staff and sessional tutors) to a post-event questionnaire, which sought to determine how various actors saw the process represented by the forum and how they reflect on their experience of engagement in it.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-390912023-02-07T08:01:21Z The spaces we work in: consultation about Curtin's Architecture and Planning building MacCallum, Diana Khan, Shahed Andrew Butt Melissa Kennedy academic working environment deliberative democracy University governance In 2009, Curtin University made an in-principle commitment to a ‘re-life’ project for Building 201, which houses its School of Built Environment. The project, Build 201.1, was to represent a major overhaul of the building’s space, which has been subject to ad hoc incremental, sometimes desperate and often disjointed changes to cope with changing demands through its forty-year history. In November 2011, the School took the highly unusual step of holding a stakeholder forum to identify user concerns and needs and, thus, inform the project definition statement (which will form the basis of a detailed budget and tender documents). In this paper we, as the organisers of that forum, reflect on its process and outcomes, in relation not only to the physical space we work in but – equally crucially – to the spaces of governance and communication that shape our institutional environment. This reflection is informed by responses from 20 of the forum’s 52 participants (students, academics, general staff and sessional tutors) to a post-event questionnaire, which sought to determine how various actors saw the process represented by the forum and how they reflect on their experience of engagement in it. 2012 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/39091 http://anzaps.net/admin/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/ANZAPS-2012_full_web.pdf La Trobe University restricted
spellingShingle academic working environment
deliberative democracy
University governance
MacCallum, Diana
Khan, Shahed
The spaces we work in: consultation about Curtin's Architecture and Planning building
title The spaces we work in: consultation about Curtin's Architecture and Planning building
title_full The spaces we work in: consultation about Curtin's Architecture and Planning building
title_fullStr The spaces we work in: consultation about Curtin's Architecture and Planning building
title_full_unstemmed The spaces we work in: consultation about Curtin's Architecture and Planning building
title_short The spaces we work in: consultation about Curtin's Architecture and Planning building
title_sort spaces we work in: consultation about curtin's architecture and planning building
topic academic working environment
deliberative democracy
University governance
url http://anzaps.net/admin/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/ANZAPS-2012_full_web.pdf
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/39091