Planning by the Numbers: NU2019
What decision-making criteria drive planning and design for higher education?
Beauty?
Joy?
Sustainability?
Inquiry?
Craft?
Experience?
Narrative?
Ideology?
Sublime?
Systems?
Although all of these qualities can contribute to great planning and design for higher education …
… these qualities alone do not drive decisions.
Higher education clients are inherently …
Conservative
Competitive
“Good innovators typically think very big and they think very small. New ideas are sometimes found in the most granular details of a problem where few others bother to look … … And they are sometimes found when you are doing your most abstract and philosophical thinking, considering why the world is the way that it is and whether there might be an alternative to the dominant paradigm. Rarely can they be found in the temperate latitudes between the two spaces, where we spend 99 percent of our lives.” Nate Silver, The Signal and the Noise
“Good innovators typically think very big and they think very small. New ideas are sometimes found in the most granular details of a problem where few others bother to look …
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… And they are sometimes found when you are doing your most abstract and philosophical thinking, considering why the world is the way that it is and whether there might be an alternative to the dominant paradigm. Rarely can they be found in the temperate latitudes between the two spaces, where we spend 99 percent of our lives.”
Vision
Nate Silver, The Signal and the Noise
1915
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1915 2200
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1915 2200 2400
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parking
1915 2200 2400
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1915 2200 2400 dining hall
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parking
1515/400
1915 2200 2400 dining hall
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1515/400
2000/200 beds
1915 2200 2400 dining hall
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1515/400
2000/200 beds
1915 2200 2400
classrooms and labs dining hall
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2000/200 beds
1915 2200 2400
classrooms and labs dining hall faculty offices admin support
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1515/400 athletics 2000/200 beds
1915 2200 2400
classrooms and labs dining hall faculty offices admin support
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student activities
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athletics 2000/200 beds
1915 2200 2400
classrooms and labs dining hall faculty offices admin support
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student activities
parking
1515/400
athletics 2000/200
1915 2200 2400
beds
classrooms and labs dining hall faculty offices admin support
infrastructure
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“The signal is the truth. The noise is what distracts us from the truth.” Nate Silver, The Signal and the Noise