Hybrid Creative Spaces Pattern Workshop: A Report on Investigation of TACIT Themes and Design Requirements

In July 2023 a unique interdisciplinary workshop brought together leading researchers and practitioners in the emerging field of hybrid learning and working, utilizing design patterns to explore the promises and dilemmas it raises from social, methodological, pedagogic, spatial and technological perspectives. This report presents the results of a pattern workshop on Future Hybrid Creative Spaces (FHCS), held at Irsee in Germany as part of the EuroPLoP 2023 conference. During the first half of the workshop, a group of experts gathered to share their real-world experiences related to various design issues of hybrid creative spaces (i.e. spatial design, pedagogy, and social interaction). In the second half of the workshop, a different group of experts started with reorganizing the selected patterns (from physical, hybrid and digital space domains) by their “creative affordance”. Based on the shared “creative affordance”, new “hybrid patterns” were created using selected patterns from physical and digital spaces. As a result, the experts proposed 13 new hybrid patterns and identified the most important affordances that make a working or learning environment “creative”.