Conference Presentations

Students and campus staff face increasing isolation and mental health challenges. To plan and design meaningful spaces of belonging, we must ask the right questions, use specific observation methods, and apply relevant research. We'll share an update on the current state of mental health and wellbeing, institutional perspectives, challenges to student success, and methods for applying human-centered research in the creation of campus spaces for community and engagement. Join us for practical tools that will help you plan, program, and design learning environments that address today's pressing challenges with mental health and social connection.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Add a new lens to your project design review that will aid your ability to support social connections, engagement, and resilience outcomes in campus spaces.
2. Evaluate spaces for their ability to support social connections through human-centered analytics, observational surveys and engagement, as well as for human behavior, design, and maintenance factors.
3. Identify opportunities to leverage human-centered analytics methods and data in the planning and programming of campus environments to support social connection, wellbeing, and resilience outcomes.
4. Discuss how a cross-departmental change management approach can center social connections and wellbeing through coordination of activities across real estate, planning, and facilities management.

Presenters:

Lou Gill, Senior Director of Undergraduate Housing and Residential Life, University of California-Irvine
Elizabeth MacPherson Hearn, Partner, Mithun
Erin Ishizaki, Partner, Mithun
Juliet Sinisterra, CEO, University District Development Association

Delivered 04/03/2025.

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