Storträffen Meetup Spring 2025
Teaching for the Future - with Today's Resources and Challenges
The Faculty Council of KTH Royal Institute of Technology emphasises the importance of university-wide exchange and learning as part of the systematic quality work. To strengthen the exchange of experience and continuous quality development of our educational programmes, the Storträffen meetup is arranged every semester for all staff and students.
This time, the Storträffen meetup is co-organized with the higher education pedagogy conference KTH SoTL 2025.
Time: Tue 2025-05-20 12.00 - 16.45
Location: Q1
Language: English
Programme
| 11:30-12:30 | Poster session for KTH SoTL in Q34 and Future education projects in Q31 |
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| 12:00-12:30 | Registration and lunch in the Q building |
| 12:30-13:15 | Opening session in Q1, also streamed to Q31 Dean of Faculty Sofia Ritzén President Anders Söderholm KTH's pedagogical prize recipient Rodrigo Muro Future education KTH SoTL: Björn Kjellgren Today's discussions: Viggo Kann and Elizabeth Keller |
| 13:25-14:00 | Discussion round 1 in the Q classrooms KTH SoTL: oral presentations in Q34 |
| 14:10-14:45 | Discussion round 2 in the Q classrooms KTH SoTL: oral presentations in Q34 |
| 14:45-15:15 |
Fika break in the Q building |
| 15:15-15:50 | Discussion round 3 in the Q classrooms KTH SoTL: oral presentations in Q34 |
| 16:00-16:45 | Closing session in Q1, also streamed to Q31 KTH SoTL keynote: Suzanne Brink Summary and next steps: PriU group leaders, Future education, THS CFU, Dean of Faculty Sofia Ritzén Award ceremony |
| 16:45-18:00 | Mingling and informal conversations outside or in the Q building for those who wish to join |
Detailed programme for the discussion rounds will be published May 19.
Keynote speaker for the Storträffen Meetup
Rodrigo Muro, architect, lighting designer, and educator was awarded KTH’s Pedagogical Prize in 2024, recognizing his particularly significant contributions to education at KTH.
He serves as Program Director of the Master’s Programme in Architectural Lighting Design, actively working to strengthen the connection between education and research within the fields of architecture and lighting. In addition to his academic position, is also a representative of the Svenska Belysningssällskapet for the Svenska Ljuspriset, contributing to the recognition of excellence in lighting design in Sweden.
Rodrigo is currently pursuing his doctoral studies at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, where his research focuses on the role of light in emotional architecture. His methodology is exploratory, combining phenomenological studies of light in spatial contexts with an investigation into its resonance with the emotional dimension of human experience.
Keynote speaker for KTH SoTL
Suzanne Brink is an excellent teacher and associate professor in higher education pedagogy at the Centre for Educational Development (UPL) at Umeå University. She has a multidisciplinary background in industrial design engineering (TU Delft) and educational sciences (Leiden University), and over twenty years of experience in teaching in higher education.
She has been visiting professor in user centred design at Liverpool University and Thomas More in Belgium, external examiner at Queen’s University of Belfast, head of the Open Innovator programme at The Hague University of Applied Sciences, curriculum consultant and teacher at Avans, and a freelance multimedia designer, with a fascination for design for learning. Her participatory action research focuses on programme and course innovation, curriculum agility, co-creation of, in, and for education, and learner experience design.