Engineering Serendipity: Designing Classrooms for Fortunate Discoveries
Serendipity the phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for—often feels like pure chance. A happy accident. A stroke of luck. But what if we could design learning environments, not to force serendipity, but to significantly increase the likelihood of these fortunate discoveries? This is the intriguing concept behind “Engineering Serendipity” in education: