Towards Harmonious, Positive, Postdigital Spaces for Learning

In this concluding chapter we synthesise the central ideas that emerged across the varied accounts and studies within this collection. We begin by discussing the different conceptualisations of ‘conviviality’, ‘equity’, and ‘sustainability’ that underpinned the work across this book. Within this we point towards the complexity and contradictions associated with these themes, including the difficulty in reconciling them in the pursuit of positive spaces for learning. From there we go on to propose a set of ideas that can be used to inform how we conceptualise, design, and nurture learning spaces within our postdigital times. A recurring idea within this is the value that can be drawn through the notion of ‘harmony’, for instance as we seek to reconcile different desires in the design of learning spaces, find a way of understanding the relations between digital and physical elements, and in pursuing spaces for learning that are in-tune with our natural world. We draw the chapter, and this book, to a close by suggesting how future research and ideas might build on the work here, for instance by taking postdigital thinking into further learning spaces beyond those explored within this collection.