Brain-surfing
Team members:
Dennis Cheung, Whitnie Lau, Agnes Kuo, Paul Yau, HONG KONG, Studio Ryte
To challenge and rescue each other in the sea of knowledge
In the future, school time will only be 2 hours a day, mostly talking.
With the explosion of internet, substantial portion of knowledge will be self-learned via Augmented Reality lessons and lecture videos. “BRAIN-SURFING” is the new typology for future universities. Students will be sitting on an intelligent chair that scans their brains. It will pair together knowledgeable and/ or like-minded people according to their level and interests. Universities will become the sacred place dedicated only for face-to-face knowledge exchange. Class will be curated as short and private sessions for picking your peers’ brains. Every 15 minutes or so a student’s pod will be mechanically moved to combine with another student’s. The double-rings configuration shall force students to challenge as well as rescue a classmate, triggering the motivation to learn more from each other and at home. Students are constrained to communicate and perform intellectually as they are assessed and endorsed by each other. And finally the campus? A dynamic building with moving pods that transport students along a double-layered façade will be seen, celebrating the future pillars’ physical interactions.
BRAIN-SURFING will deliver the ideal balance for virtual and physical learning.