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Change, the future and how best to prepare is top of every strategist’s mind, not least the university educationalist, for whom the world of the student experience is fast becoming something of an obsession. And rightfully so, though a word of caution: when recently asked by a UK-based university as to what we thought the key change drivers would be, and how best to plan for them, I was reminded by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ championing not of change, but rather of what is going to stay the same.

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FREESTATE Change, the future and how best to prepare is top of every strategist’s mind, not least the university educationalist, for whom the world of the student experience is fast becoming something of an obsession. And rightfully so, though a word of caution: when recently asked by a UK-based university ...

In 1968, the literary theorist Roland Barthes published a short and incendiary essay Death of the Author, in which he argued that the intentions of the author ought to be separated from interpretations of the text. The author, he says, ‘is born simultaneously with the text, and is no way supplied with a being which precedes or transcends the writing.’ There is no ‘secret, ultimate meaning’ to the text. Returned to the role of the shaman-poet, the author is merely the ‘performer’, a conduit for language, a ‘tissue of citations’, the result of countless cultural influences. This ‘space of many dimensions’ resists deciphering, cannot be penetrated, and is collected in not the author or the critic, but in the reader, whose experience – feel, interpretation – of the text is all that really matters.

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FREESTATE In 1968, the literary theorist Roland Barthes published a short and incendiary essay Death of the Author, in which he argued that the intentions of the author ought to be separated from interpretations of the text. The author, he says, ‘is born simultaneously with the text, and is no way supplied ...

When asked recently to help design the ‘ultimate transformative student experience’ for an old sandstone Australian campus university, we decided to build the whole project around the concept of the Experience of Freedom.

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FREESTATE I’ll save you the details for another time, but beginning with a people-centred concept rather than a building required something of a step-change in the way it thought about how to attract, retain and super-successfully graduate students.