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Designing for Intentional Community: Dartmouth’s Housing Transformation

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Published June 4, 2025
Presented by Ben Carlson, Principal, Goody Clancy | Lisa Ferreira, Principal, Student Life Practice Leader, Goody Clancy | Joanna Whitcomb, Director of Campus Planning, Dartmouth College
Planning Types: Campus Planning

Planning processes must be versatile and nimble to accommodate changing priorities. This session will show how a design team developed a flexible data visualization tool that allows Dartmouth University to play out scenarios as priorities change over time. As Dartmouth renews its plans, we'll provide a comprehensive look at how the team considered parity, distribution, and student wellness in a three-part planning effort. Discover how you can apply our data visualization tool to describe complex variables to stakeholders, as well as use scenario planning to align cost, student experience, and institutional goals over the course of your plan's realization.

Learning Outcomes:


  1. Respond to student wellness goals, community goals, and growth needs in your housing project plans.

  2. Use a critical eye to assess how buildings support or do not support your institution's culture.

  3. Explain how to develop a similar data visualization tool to use for your own institution's purposes.

  4. Advocate for flexibility in your plans in anticipation of leadership changes during its execution.



Delivered 06/04/2025.

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