We have just met with representatives from the University of Sheffield Students Union to discuss collaborating on developing our visualisation of the Students Union building to aid students and staff with the development of the new union building. We discussed a number of exciting ways that we could explore benefits offered by uCampus.
Lisa Scanlon and her marketing and communications team talked about the need to create flexible space for students to utilise in the union building; for collaborative working, society meetings, and a whole range of learning situations. We understand that whilst this space has been outlined the need to carefully consider the range of facilities, functions, thresholds and boundaries that can be provided and the necessity for students to be engaged in this design and planning process is crucial and yet to be determined. We feel that this would be a good opportunity to work together, using uCampus as a tool to help this process.
In the short-term, developing a 3-D model of the existing union building to show how it can be accessed during the construction and regeneration of the union building. This may include highlighting temporary entrance routes etc.
In the medium-term, developing fly-throughs or virtual tours of the new building to help introduce it to staff and students. In addition providing a model that students can explore at their leisure, before they have even been to Sheffield, to explore the myriad of opportunities that the union offers. This could be as much about learning opportunities as access to bars and shops. The impact that this could have on aiding student induction could be very powerful.
We have concluded that Lisa and her team will develop a wish-list of what they would like to explore and we will then provide information on how this can be achieved in order to move forward so that they outputs are in-step with the imminent building work.
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