Interviews at MIT revealed that faculty and students had a strong interest in creating warmer, more intimate, and more attractive classroom spaces that promote faculty-student exchanges.
Attractive classrooms lend dignity to the learning process.
University of California at Davis researchers concluded that there is a need to create diversity among classrooms. Sameness is often equated with being boring or dull. Differences help orient oneself in a building and make it easier to communicate about a room to others. Too often, college classrooms are described as ugly, stark, cold, grim, spiritless, windowless and colorless. Conflicting demands are placed on college classrooms.