Recorded Lectures Now Available from the Hybrid Seminar on Nordic Learning Environment Design in Reykjavík (April 2026)

Our LED Nordic lecture series Youtube playlist provides an opportunity to familiarise with transdisciplinary Nordic Learning Environment Design and Research from the perspectives of researchers, education providers (municipalities and educational institutions) and pedagogical, industrial and architectural designers and consultants. It now includes (1) lectures that were originally published as part of our Multidisciplinary perspectives on Learning Environment Design ("MultiLED") project and (2) lectures from the closing LED Nordic Hybrid Seminar on Nordic Learning Environment Design held in Reykjavik in April 2026. This work is part of Nordplus Horizontal 2024 funded project Impact of Learning Environment Design on Teaching, Learning, and Wellbeing: A Nordic Perspective ("LED Nordic"). The project is coordinated by the Innovative Learning Environments research group at the  Finnish Institute for Educational Research,  University of Jyväskylä. It includes partners and collaborators  from all nordic countries. To learn more about the project, an open-access publication on lessons learned during 2024–2026 regarding the impact of learning environment design on teaching, learning, and wellbeing in the Nordic region will be published in Autum 2026.

Lectures from the LED Nordic Hybrid Seminar on Nordic Learning Environment Design (April 2026):

• LED Nordic lecture series 1 | Tiina Mäkelä (University of Jyväskylä): Introduction to LED Nordic
• LED Nordic lecture series 2 | Torfi Hjartarson (University of Iceland) and Þórdís Eik Friðþjófsdóttir (Reykjavik City): Innovative learning environments in recent Icelandic school buildings
• LED Nordic lecture series 3 | Palmyre Pierroux (University of Oslo) and Bodil Hovaldt Bøjer (Royal Danish Academy): Review of Nordic research literature on physical learning environments, themes and methods
• LED Nordic lecture series 4 | Bodil Hovaldt Bøjer (Royal Danish Academy, Denmark); Colin Campbell (Ecophon, Sweden); Markku Lang (Oppimaisema Oy)/Sari Lehtonen (City of Helsinki, Finland); Siv Marit Stavem, (Norconsult, Norway); and Þórdís Eik Friðþjófsdóttir (City of Reykjavik, Iceland): Photographs from pilot study visits to school buildings in Nordic countries
• LED Nordic lecture series 5 | Raija Kattilakoski (Positiimi): Inclusion and Nordic learning environment design
• LED Nordic lecture series 6 | Jennifer Charteris (University of New England, Australia): Respatialisation in schools: redesigning spaces and reimagining pedagogy
• LED Nordic lecture series 7| Gerður Magnúsdóttir (principal of Barnaskóli Kársness, Kópavogur, Iceland): Making the most of new learning environments in daily school practice

Further information: Tiina Mäkelä (tiina.m.makela@jyu.fi)

LED Nordic coordinator:

• University of Jyväskylä, Finnish Institute for Educational Research, University of Jyväkylä, Post doc Tiina Mäkelä (FI)

Partner institutions:

• Oppimaisema, Pedagogical expert  Markku Lang (FI)
• City of Helsinki, Educational division, Architect Sari Lehtonen  (FI)
• Tmi Raija Kattilakoski, Pedagogical expert Dr. Raija Kattilakoski   (FI)
• University of Iceland, School of Education, Associate Professor Torfi Hjartarson (IS)
• City of Reykjavik, Department of Education and Youth, Building & Equipment Maintenance Project Managers  Thordis Eik Fridthjofsdottir  and Daníel Benediktsson (IS)
• The Royal Danish Academy - Architecture, Design, Conservation, Associate professor Bodil Hovaldt Bøjer (DK)
• University of Oslo, Department of Education, Professor Palmyre Pierroux (NO)
• Norconsult Norge AS,  Educational planner Siv Marit Stavem (NO)
• Ecophon, Acoustic concept developers Colin Campbell, Ida Cederlund (SE) and Pauli Pallaskorpi (FI)

Collaborators

• University of Aarhus, the Danish School of Education, Associate Professor Lisa Rosen Rasmussen (DK)
• Municipality of Gladsaxe, Learning Spaces Design Services in the Education Division, School developer Kirsten Haase (DK)
• University of Melbourne  Graduate School of Education, Associate Professor Wesley Imms (Australia)
• Edith Cowan University, School of Education, Associate Professor Julia Morris (Australia)