…from the performing arts to engineering and medicine there comes a point where practice must occur. Learning can’t simply be ‘Platonic’ as my friend and colleague William Rankin has described it. An unbundling of theory and praxis might provide some foresight as to how university buildings and facilities may be repurposed in the future after the great transformation for which the pandemic has been a catalyst. Perhaps the facilities of universities are made open to their communities. Might then the role of s…
