Planning by the Numbers

This was a presentation delivered at the Campus Construction Symposium, hosted by the Norwich University School of Art and Architecture on October 4, 2013. We believe that planning lies in the space between data rich research, and big picture vision. In this presentation we explore that range.

Transcript

1. Planning by the Numbers: NU2019
2. What decision-making criteria drive planning and design for higher education?
3. Beauty?
4. Joy?
5. Sustainability?
6. Inquiry?
7. Craft?
8. Experience?
9. Narrative?
10. Ideology?
11. Sublime?
12. Systems?
13. Although all of these qualities can contribute to great planning and design for higher education …
14. … these qualities alone do not drive decisions.
15. Higher education clients are inherently …
16. Conservative
17. Competitive
18. “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
19. “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 Data Vision
20. Data 1915
21. Data 1915 2200
22. Data 1915 2200 2400
23. Data 1915 2200 2400 parking
24. Data 1915 2200 2400 parking dining hall
25. Data 1915 2200 2400 parking dining hall 1515/400
26. Data 1915 2200 2400 parking dining hall 1515/400 2000/200 beds
27. Data 1915 2200 2400 parking dining hall 1515/400 2000/200 beds classrooms and labs
28. Data 1915 2200 2400 parking dining hall 1515/400 2000/200 beds classrooms and labs faculty offices admin support
29. Data 1915 2200 2400 parking dining hall 1515/400 2000/200 beds classrooms and labs faculty offices admin support athletics
30. Data 1915 2200 2400 parking dining hall 1515/400 2000/200 beds classrooms and labs faculty offices admin support athletics student activities
31. Data 1915 2200 2400 parking dining hall 1515/400 2000/200 beds classrooms and labs faculty offices admin support athletics student activities infrastructure
32. Data
33. Vision
38. Vision
39. Vision
40. Vision
41. Vision
42. Vision
43. Vision
44. Vision
45. Vision
46. Data
47. Data
48. Data
49. Data
50. Data
51. “The signal is the truth. The noise is what distracts us from the truth.” Nate Silver, The Signal and the Noise