LEARNING BY DESIGNING: COLLABORATIVE PROJECT FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS AT THE ETSIDI

Due to the characteristics of our studies, both students and professors spend a great amount of time at the university that often do not present adequate conditions for the study. We refer to both internal and external characteristics, among which we find for example the noises that may be occurring in the vicinity, the work light, the temperature of the spaces, the colors of the walls, the decoration of the common spaces, the characteristics of the furniture, etc. All these aspects affect both physically and emotionally and can revert both positively and negatively in their results.

For some years, we have achieved an important improvement in these aspects, but we have created an Educational Innovation Project to work collaboratively with the students, making a learning through practice practices and new creative dynamics such as design thinking. In this way we consolidate the learning of our students in their professional field and we foster an emotional bond with their workspace.
In this communication we will expose some phases of the project, giving special interest to the participation of the students through the analysis of the results of the surveys. The processes of creation of three most important projects are shown, as well as the future lines of work, both in our university and in other educational centers