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DIAD facilitates collaborative creativity at Dartmouth, using design thinking to bring together technology and the liberal arts, and empowering our community to uncover and address the most challenging problems.
LIBERAL ARTS: Every innovator's toolkit should include key aspects of education and scholarship in the arts, humanities, and social sciences—namely, critical thinking skills, a justice-oriented mindset, and a human-centered approach to problem-solving.
TECHNOLOGY: From engineering to computer science and beyond, DIAD embraces physical, digital, and mixed methods of idea development and implementation to equip graduates with the technical skills and self-efficacy needed to build impactful solutions to complex challenges.
DESIGN THINKING: We believe that a design-based approach to interdisciplinary collaboration helps us to connect "what is the right problem to solve?" with "how can we solve it?"—catalyzing action-oriented learning, scholarship, and impact.
DIAD is creating new interdepartmental design-based courses, and infusing design methods into existing courses across campus. Offerings include:
DIAD is building new opportunities for students, faculty, and staff to practice design outside the classroom, through a series of workshops, events, and programs. These include:
DIAD is catalyzing new interdisciplinary research efforts for students and faculty, by supporting design-based investigations aimed at generating positive social impact. These include:
DIAD supports students, faculty, and staff engaging in interdisciplinary, design-based learning, teaching, scholarship, and creative practice.
There are currently three opportunities to receive grant funding from DIAD for a design project:
DIAD works with many partners across Dartmouth to foster interdisciplinary creative learning. Some of our collaborators include:
DIAD works all across campus, but our headquarters is in the West End District in the Class of 1982 Engineering and Computer Science Center (ECSC). There we have two dedicated spaces available to all members of our community engaged in design-related activities:
Need a space for your design-related event? In this hyper-flexible multipurpose room, everything is on wheels—even the couches!
Any member of the Dartmouth community can reserve it for any design-related event, including workshops, design sprints, working sessions, club meetings, presentations, exhibitions, special class meetings, and more.
The Loft features both bar-height and standard-height tables with dozens of chairs and stools, four moveable couches, and both stationary and mobile whiteboards. It has a standard AV setup with a projector and room speakers, as well as lecture capture and built-in Zoom Room capabilities.
Need space to work on a longer-term design project? Any member of the Dartmouth community can request an assigned workstation for one or more terms.
Equipped with hookups for most kinds of tools (including power, fume exhaust, compressed air, and vacuum suction), the Lab has six individual benches to work on and store prototypes, plus three large communal work tables for extra space and collaboration.
The Lab is locked to the general public and provides a secure location to store equipment and work-in-progress. Individuals with an assigned space receive key card access. (Space requests are reviewed on a term-by-term basis.)
Have questions or would like to talk about a design-related idea? We’d love to hear from you!
Email us at design.initiative@dartmouth.edu.
