The Nordic Research Network on Teaching and Learning in Innovative Learning Environments (NNILE) warmly invites you to participate at the upcoming Nordic Symposium on Critical Research in Innovative Learning Environments, to be held in Umeå.
This three-day event will bring together researchers, doctoral students, and invited experts from the Nordic countries, Europe, and beyond to discuss current challenges and opportunities in the study of innovative learning environments. The symposium will focus on methodological, theoretical, and empirical perspectives, as well as policy and the evolving landscape of education.
12:00-13:00
🍴 Lunch
13:00–13:10
Welcome to Umeå University
The dean of the faculty of social science, Ulrika Haake
13:10–13:30
Introduction of the symposium
13:30–14:10
Workshop (I) Peter, Annika & Maria
14:20–15:00
Presentations
15:00–15:30
☕ Coffee
15:30–16:45
Presentations
18:00 -
🍴 Dinner
08:30–08:45
Introduction, presentation of new guests
08:45–09:30
When space teaches: Theorising teacher spatial competency
Associate Prof. Marian Mahat, The University of Melbourne
09:30–10:00
☕ Coffee
10:00–10:40
Can ILEs be a successful educational reform or do they depart too far from the ‘grammar of schooling’? Reflections on global enthusiasm and (some) local reluctance
Associate Prof. Pamela Woolner, School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences, Newcastle University, UK
10:45–11:25
The fourth teacher: Parents, Teachers, Space and… AI!
Prof. Sarah Howard, University of Leeds, & Prof. Jo Tondeur, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
11:30–12:10
Bridging Pedagogy and Architecture: A Pedagogical Cartography Exercise Rendering Stimulating Learning Environments
Dr. Ruth Stevens, postdoc, Hasselt University, Faculty of Architecture & Arts and School for Educational Sciences
12:10–13:00
🍴 Lunch
13:00–13:40
Engagement in action: interacting bodies, space and mobility in open and flexible learning spaces
Dr. Kreeta Niemi, University of Jyväskylä
13:45–14:30
(Re)thinking why matter matters in mainstream and alternative education spaces
Prof. Peter Kraftl, University of Birmingham
14:30–15:00
☕ Coffee
15:00–15:45
School spaces as heterotopias of socially organised learning
Prof. Ulrike Stadler-Altmann, Humboldt universität zu Berlin
15:50–16:35
Beyond Traditional Classrooms: Empowering Teachers to See, Shape and Use Learning Spaces Actively
Dr. Bodil Hovaldt Bøjer, Royal Danish Academy – Architecture, Design, Conservation
16:35–17:00
Discussion & wrap-up
19:00
🍴 Dinner at Tonka
08:30–09:10
Micropolitics of space: Physical learning environments as political arenas
Dr. Anna Kristina Kokko, University of Eastern Finland
09:15–09:55
From Policy to Practice: How The Curriculum Influence School Spaces
PhD student Eirik Ringen Hammarström, Norwegian technology and science university
09:55–10:25
☕ Coffee
10:25–10:55
Dr. Brendan Munhall, postdoc, Umeå University
10:50–12:00
Wrap-up, discussion about a possible edited book
12:00
🍴 Light lunch
