Library Futures Classroom
Where Teaching, Space, and Technology Meet
The Library Futures Classroom is a flexible, library-based classroom where faculty and students experiment with how learning happens. Located on the 2nd floor of Carrier Library, the Futures Classroom supports learning by connecting students directly to library services, makerspaces, and digital resources.
What is the Futures Classroom?
The Library Futures Classroom is a living laboratory where faculty, students, and libraries explore how space, pedagogy, and technology shape learning.
The Futures Classroom space invites experimentation in teaching and learning with new technologies and classroom space design. This is an incubator for examining how classrooms can be used in the future, by both faculty and students.
Located within Carrier Library, the Futures Classroom makes it easier than ever to access invaluable Libraries resources, from the Makery to Digital Scholarship and Distinctive Collections.
Features
Flexible Classroom Space
- Whiteboard top tables
- Mobile furniture – tables and chairs on wheels
- Laptop cart to supply students with specialized software
- Design thinking supply cart for students to create prototypes
- Two projected walls and one digital display
- Shelving to display active student projects
Library Support for Experimentation
- Educational technologists
- Instructional designers
- Media production staff
- Connection to makerspace and digital resources
- Location next to makerspace and distinctive collections
Apply to Teach in the Futures Classroom
We invite you to think about how teaching in these spaces could transform your students’ learning, whether through a course, module, or workshop.
Collaboration with the Libraries in these spaces may take the form of:
- Student projects
- Course-based prototypes
- Faculty partnerships
- Technology exploration
Visit our Get Involved page to learn more and apply.