Education

Rethinking Libraries

Discover how the role of the library is evolving to advance changes in technology, pedagogy and learning.

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Adaptable Tables for Active Learning

The new Verb Flip-Top Table offers a sturdy, safe and simple-to-rearrange option for active learning spaces.

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Active Learning. Active Minds. Active Spaces.

With help from Steelcase Education, Perdue can cultivate a pivotal design strategy for a fundamentally better learning experience. Our focus is to help educational environments create the most effective, rewarding, and inspiring active learning environments to meet the evolving needs of students and educators.

Explore various design principles and products, such as elementary school desks and furniture for colleges, that center on wellness, blend learning environments, reimagine educational equity, and activate engagement. Using an insight-led approach, we design solutions for the many spaces learning happens, from classrooms and libraries to in-between spaces and cafes. We have a passion for understanding how learning best takes place and how smarter, active learning spaces can help.

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K-12 Classroom Furniture and Design

From early childhood education to high school, educators and students thrive in engaged spaces and seek flexible learning that presents better forms of collaboration, engagement, and creative expression. Evolve from inflexible, traditional classroom settings and introduce advanced design components through easy-to-move elementary tables, school chairs, interactive digital tools, and other stylistic classroom furniture that can easily integrate into different learning modes.

Perdue’s custom design planning and procurement expertise can help you build an innovative landscape personalized by grade level. Invest in state-of-the-art products with ergonomic engineering, such as height-adjustable teacher desks and swivel-base student chair desks for optimum movement.

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Technology-Enabled Higher Education Classroom Design Solutions

Informal education is becoming mainstream in colleges and universities, embracing specialized formats for blended learning, multipurpose workspaces, and smart functionality. Such attributes cultivated through design, pairing modern learning tools with furniture classrooms and student forums need, can be impactful to performance. Whether interactive, lecture, a large- or small-scale class size, maximize your space with transitional school furniture enabling seamless flow through creative work styles and integrated technology. Classroom tables, library desks, and teacher chairs with built-in flexibility, comfort, and innovation can help foster collaboration throughout lecture halls and social spaces.

With Perdue, design an inclusive learning experience that enables seamless collaboration, diverse adaptability, and optional learning modes for an improved college experience.

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Modern Furniture for Libraries

Offering unique choices for creative exploration, libraries have evolved into flexible spaces where the collective community can find inspiration, acquire multipurpose skills, and connect with likeminded peers. Through innovation and modern library furniture design, reinvent how the library can enhance the patron’s experience. Makerspaces, cafés, digital design stations, and lounge areas furnished with modular furniture for libraries are key design principles proven to nurture creativity and establish a safe, comfortable environment.

With Perdue, access a design solution integrated with advanced elements, tools, and technology adaptable to any style library, such as research, academic, and public entities.

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