Guest Professor Peter Baumgartner from Danube-Univerity Krems, Austria visits Umeå

05/18/2013

Peter Baumgartner (Danube-University Krems, Austria) held a very interesting workshop about the 15 properties coming from Christopher Alexander in Architecture. What? Architecture? Right! The concept of the workshop was to transfer these properties to education, teaching and learning. ...And it was great with a lot of inspirations and discussions! "An interactive experiment", Peter said.

Participants: Peter Baumgartner, Peter Bergström, Andreas Olsson, Lars Norqvist, Henning Eriksson, Nataliia Sharkova, Anders Norberg, Satish Patel, Peter Vinnervik, Krister Lindwall, Isa Jahnke

On Peter's blog, you find an overview and the organization of the workshop, aims and first results:
https://peter.baumgartner.name/2013/05/18/workshop-on-15-properties-christopher-alexander 
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Peter Baumgartner is in Umeå for around 2 weeks. He gave a talk on Monday , 13 May 2013, about "Showcase of Learning: Towards a Pattern Language for Working with e-Portfolios in Higher Education" and organized a workshop on Thursday, 16 May 2013, "15 properties from Christopher Alexander, Architecture and how to transfer them to education".

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