In Focus: CEF Lobby Featured as Best Practice at OECD Centre for Effective Learning Environments
The CEF lobby is featured as a best practice in educational facility investments at the OECD Centre for Effective Learning Environments (CELE) and as a facility of the week. As an international organization with the mission to support capacity development for finance officials in South East Europe through learning, we are constantly paying attention also to the question of how the physical design of the environment can support learning.
Our lobby was renovated in 2015 by architect Jure Kotnik who helped us translate our understanding of learning into a physical design of our lobby.
As a key meeting place in our learning institution and a place where learning happens in addition to the classrooms, we wanted our lobby to be a place where our training participants would feel relaxed, motivated to learn, and stimulated to think ‘out of the box’. It facilitates learning and presents public financial management and central banking topics as challenging and fun.
The architect chose a set of innovative elements, such as a winning podium, office traffic signs, new names of classrooms and arrangement of a pillar as an inspiration area that acts as information board and enables a relaxed and informal learning environment which stimulates participants to memorize more information.