Competition Guidelines
Theme: A Future Ready National Institute of Education: Transformation & Sustainability
Looking forward to 2025, NIE envisions its teaching and learning landscape to be more innovative and flexible, promoting knowledge creation, learner agency, and an innovative and entrepreneurial mindset. The future ready learning space should therefore empower learners by supporting transformative tech-enabled learning activities where learners can engage in reflective exercises, collaboration, experimentation and innovation. Given the varying learning experiences and diversity among our students, the space should be adaptable and exemplify best and sustainable practices not only in its physical design such as natural lighting and acoustics but also in terms of how it can inspire a conducive learning environment where our student teachers thrive as active and engaged learners.
01. Categories
1. Flexi Formal Learning Space - Lecture Theatre or Tutorial Room
2. Informal Learning Space - Common spaces
02. Human-Centred Design Approach
Participants are required to utilise a human-centred design approach for the ideation and prototyping of their learning space proposals. This approach emphasises understanding the needs, desires, and behaviours of the users to create functional and learning-friendly spaces.
03. Eligibility
The competition is open to all current students, staff, and alumni of NIE except the organising committee. Participants may enter individually or in groups (maximum of 5 members).
04. Submission Requirements
Each participant or team must submit the following:
1. A design proposal highlighting the reimagined learning space, including layout, furniture, technology, and other relevant elements.
2. A written/audio/video narrative of how the proposed design aligns with the principles of human-centred design and how it caters to the diverse needs of our university community, particularly (but not exclusively) in terms of teaching and learning.
3. One or more visual representations (e.g., sketches, 3D renderings, digital models, or photo/video of physical scale models) to illustrate the design concept.
05. Judging Criteria
Submissions will be evaluated based on the following criteria:
06. Intellectual Property
Participants retain ownership of their submissions but grant NIE the rights to use and display their designs in the learning spaces, if selected.