The chance for sociability - An institutional corridor as a place for learning for adolescents with brain injury

The paper raises the question of how residents of a rehabilitation and education center in Denmark use the center's main corridor to engage in social or focused activities. We aim to inform the design of smart learning ecosystems to support adolescents with brain injury in social and informal learning. We argue that research on smart learning environments focuses too narrowly on classroom interaction and neglects the socially situated and interactional side of learning. Thus, we investigate (1) how a corridor can be understood as a place for informal and social learning; (2) how young people with brain injury who have problems engaging in social interaction participate in interactions along this corridor; (3) how these insights inform research on smart learning ecosystems, which aims for supporting informal and social learning. We conclude that this approach transforms traditional learning approaches as well as the actual layout and design for the built environment.

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