Abstract
Learning innovation is a positive approach on the contemporary higher education international stage. This article stresses the need to devise physical spaces that are also innovative. For that purpose, using a qualitative methodology, we investigated recent trends based on the synergies between certain creative disciplines: architecture, music, and fashion. The comparison was based on compositional features and formative dimension. Using a qualitative methodological comprehensive approach, a set of case studies was analysed. The findings show the usefulness of activating these synergies as effective strategies when enriching educational processes in different ways. Six cases of excellence wherein university physical spaces reached levels of innovation were studied, representing relevant transfers among the three disciplines. The text presents examples that show the educational consequences in the establishment of those synergies, in terms of both composition (music–architecture) and the activation of heritage sites in the city as venues of learning innovation (fashion–architecture). The basic conclusions were based on the fact that the increase in teaching and spatial creativity that emanates from said synergies among the three disciplines can be potentially extrapolated to other areas of knowledge.
Highlights
The article focused on the analysis of synergies among three creative disciplines: architecture, music, and fashion
In the case of the architecture–music duo, cases can be remembered from the Renaissance, e.g., the theories of Alberti or the works of Guillaume Dufet
In the case of architecture, music, and fashion, the physical space is a critical part of such a series of adjacent elements
Summary
Throughout their historical evolution, higher education institutions have adopted different institutional, academic, and urban-architectural models [1]. The medieval model was characterized by its integration with the urban context, with the cloister (inherited from the monasteries and cathedrals) as the preferred spatial type. The English pattern was founded on the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge, which inherited cloister typology for their architectural structures. The French Napoleonic model sought an implantation within the city, consisting of a polycentric structure, in the Latin Quarter of Paris. This same pattern of urban integration characterized Humboldt University, inserted in the heart of Berlin since the beginning of the 19th century.
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