摘要：This paper explores how flexible learning studios contribute towards sustainability students’ ability to critically engage with the sustainabilitychallenges of their time. Higher education institutions with a sustainability focus have the potential to play an important role in training graduates with the ability to comprehend and address the complexity of sustainability problems. Sustainability educators need to meaningfully emphasise critical thinking within the classroom for students to build new knowledge around the problems being explored. Throughout the paper, we draw from our experiences of learning studios as both students and educators in the Fenner School of Environment and Society at the Australian National University. We argue that the development of appropriate studios for sustainability is important for gestating critical thinking and new ideas, and that the studio can be developed within a tutorial environment. Through discussing the conceptual and physical aspects of a learning studio , we argue that an appropriate studio for sustainability education involves a blended learning space which emphasises the importance of a flexible learning environment; develops critical understandings of complex sustainability issues; and promotes collaboration through peer learning. Such studios can be designed in a way that engenders an effective approach to sustainability education.
