MOVE: Table Prototype
What does it promote? • Focus • Creativity • Collaboration • Active Learning/Working Client • The Center for Innovation and Teaching and Learning (CITL) and the University of Illinois Budget • $7,500 for three tables Team • Greg Morse • Sam Berk • Carlos Flores
40 Summer 2016
A table shaped by the physical movements of brain-storming students facilitates active learning and collaboration. The MOVE table is the result of a design competition to partially furnish a new innovation lab for the University of Illinois. We regularly spoke with the clients, the Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning (CITL) at the University of Illinois, in order to identify their values and requirements. The winning design will be fabricated and installed but a winner has not yet been selected. The innovation lab has no exterior windows and very little daylight. It’s cramped, and the existing building materials are unrefined and uninspiring. Students in this room are expected to exercise their creativity in collaborative sessions, but this environment is only likely to inspire boredom and complacency. To counter the effects of the architecture, the MOVE table engages multiple senses in order to stimulate students’ focus, creativity, and collaboration.