Social learning spaces on campus ground, including nearby pockets, have become crucial for sustai... more Social learning spaces on campus ground, including nearby pockets, have become crucial for sustainable development to promote academic outcomes by enhancing the social learning experience. In line with the global trends, nearby pocket settings on the tropical campus should encourage interactive social learning activities. This study aimed to identify the preferred attributes of pocket spaces to predict students' social learning experience on campus grounds in a tropical context. A visual-verbal questionnaire survey was conducted at three Malaysian universities to investigate the visual preference of 408 respondents toward four different design attributes of pocket settings (softscape, hardscape, shading structure, and activity type). Six photographs of sustainable pocket spaces from tropical and hot moist regions were selected and analyzed using a systematic approach. This study found that the main attribute predicting social learning experience on campus ground in a tropical context was providing nearby pocket settings designed with a robust, sustainable shading structure. Providing different types of unique softscape and hardscapes also contribute to predicting the social experience on campus ground in the Tropics. The results also indicated that students from different backgrounds (ethnicity, education, and university) have different preferences for nearby pockets and perform different social learning experiences on campus grounds. The findings contributed information to the development of sustainable, interactive oncampus settings through integrating nearby pockets in social learning to improve academic experience. It may serve as a reference for policymakers, academic administration, architects, landscape architects, and urban planners to optimize social learning as essential in on-campus settings.
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