b'MUDD 24 URBAN NETWORKS|URBAN GATEWAYSA project-based approach is central to the model, whereinspaces, and equipped with technology and infrastructure to instruction is paired with multi-disciplinary challenges that testsupport the development of specific competencies.knowledge with peer collaboration.Each semester is broken into three parts and balanced with a series of instructionalChallenge spaces: facilitate collaboration, project work, modules and applied challenges.As students progressand brainstorming, in spaces ranging from rooms for 2-4 through a semester, the focus shifts from core instructionstudents to a multi-purpose shed for larger experiments and to greater engagement with challenges.Breaks within ahands-on learning.The campus landscape is also treated semester are structured as Innovation Week, where all Tecas a challenge space and structured to facilitate testing and campuses engage in an organized, week-long challenge. research of water, planting, and agriculture systems.The physical structure of the Tec 21 model relies on threeAssessment spaces: are devised to enable peer-to-peer primary organizing elements: feedback, faculty critiques, student displays, and exhibits. Assessment spaces are located in public settings to foster a Modules: comprise next-generation instructional and researchculture of active engagement and are equipped with movable spaces primarily consisting of versatile active learningpanels, screens, and flexible infrastructure that enables re-classrooms that facilitate focused study in a structuredorganization of the space to accommodate various scales of environment.Designed to accommodate 20-25 students, theactivities.modules are located adjacent to collaborative and informal Figure 8.New spaces for new pedagogy: Tec 21s curriculum creates a cycle of core education, challenge-based learning, and public presentation of solutions.147121These Tec 21 academic spaces encourage organic interactionsFigure 9.No more Silos: a deliberate shuffling of department spaces with the campus and peers encourages intuitive and serendipitous student and faculty encounters across disciplinesMUDD 24 - Urban Gateways | Urban Networks - Boston Pieprz & Sheth-paper.indd 8 26/11/2019 5:04:44 PM'