Abstract
Although Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) has received much attention as a concept that aims at developing citizens who live sustainably on Earth; research concerning international governance and policy was focused on developed nations rather than developing ones. This study presents the outcome of a series of multi-stakeholder workshops conducted within an interdisciplinary research project involving administrators, senior faculty, students, and staff while merging architecture and education to envision learning space and curricula. The aim of merging these two fields is to envision the future of learning spaces and curricula in the sustainable development campuses in Egypt. The workshops identified the prevailing education and sustainability megatrends most relevant to Egypt that directly apply to envisioning sustainable educational futures. Subsequently, multiple groups of student participants developed possible future learning scenarios and designed learning spaces and possible employable technologies to realize these future modes of teaching and learning. Analysis of the teams' outcomes revealed the emphasis on interdisciplinarity and the dismantling of silos between academic disciplines as a strategy to respond to the identified megatrends. The groups uniquely addressed this interdisciplinarity theme through technology, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Extended Reality (XR) technologies integrated with architectural design imaginaries, transcending traditional spatial and temporal boundaries. The findings of this study included designed interdisciplinary courses and reimagined learning spaces from architectural and technological points of view. The study also provides expected challenges and limitations about the future of ESD and sustainable campuses in developing nations.
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Mark Sedrak, The American University in Cairo, Egypt
Rita Gabriel, The American University in Cairo, Egypt
Aya El Khouly, The American University in Cairo, Egypt
Sherif Goubran, The American University in Cairo, Egypt
Heba EL-Degheidy, The American University in Cairo, Egypt
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Conference: IICE2025
Stream: Interdisciplinary
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Sedrak M., Gabriel R., Khouly A., Goubran S., & EL-Degheidy H. (2025) The Sustainable University of the Future: Interdisciplinary Imaginaries of Learning Spaces and Curricula in Egypt ISSN: 2189-1036 – The IAFOR International Conference on Education – Hawaii 2025 Official Conference Proceedings (pp. 465-477) https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2189-1036.2025.38
To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2189-1036.2025.38
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