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Playgrounds
"The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things." -- - Plato (The Republic, Book III,~380 BCE)
Architect students building a playground
Architect students build a playground in the suburb Bergsjön in Gothenburg. The playground design and building process is part of an architecture Master’s degree,
Gallery: Playgrounds
“The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.” -- G.K. Chesterton
Quadrivium: Summer
Educational settlements should be magical places. The stack informing the beauty of these "cities-within-cities" changes 100 to 1000 times per day globally. We monitor the action continuously to formulate response to public consultations. Topics appear on our CALENDAR and explored every day at 15:00 UTC. Recommend refresh of this web page once or twice to see timeliest information.
Monograph: The Case for Campus Housing
July 2021: This research is ACUHO's largest single financial investment in research on behalf of the profession. The inaugural grant was awarded to the Center for Postsecondary Research at Indiana University Bloomington to collect student housing data through the National Survey of Student Engagement. The data are from a representative sample of 33,000 first-year and sophomore students enrolled at 76 diverse residential institutions.
Current Issues & Recent Research
We are tooling up for the NFPA 2029 National Electrical Code Technical Committee Meetings in September and the IEEE Industrial Applications Society Meetings in October.
Design Standards for Student Housing
"These Standards provide design & construction professionals and staff at the various Institutions of the University System of Georgia who are engaged in the design and planning of new student housing. These guidelines represent the collective experience of the Georgia education facility professionals regarding the suitability and performance of the various materials and systems that may be considered for use in college and university student housing."