ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the entanglement of knowledge, technology and environment within a formal and an informal learning space of a residential college during the COVID-19 pandemic. Learning spaces are defined as physical or virtual environments that are, or aim to be, conducive to learning. Its focus is on diagnosing, within a particular context, how learning spaces shape the ways in which students think about the knowledge they are acquiring, the technologies involved in doing so and, relatedly, self-reflect on their own learning. The context centres on an interdisciplinary seminar about how our ideas about knowledge have changed historically in relation to the technologies we use and a makerspace whose purpose is to encourage students to reflect on the technologies they make and use. The environment, physical or virtual, is shown to play a key role in forming students’ self-reflections on their own epistemologies, the ways they think about knowledge and the methods they use for acquiring and evaluating their beliefs.
