Group settings
Explore how colleges and universities can strengthen connections among peers by creating spaces that advance active learning methods, focused work, and casual connection.
Classroom
The classroom eases collaboration and supports the hands-on activities common in active learning methods. These settings invite students and faculty to connect, focus, and work side by side.
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Herman Miller Fuld Nesting Chairs provide comfort and high-density storage.
Herman Miller OE1 Agile Walls with monitors simplify virtual collaboration.
Knoll Pixel Tables enable easy reconfiguration for focus or collaboration.
Strategies behind this setting
For wellbeing
Classrooms empower individuals and groups to control how they work with adaptable furnishings and work tools. Circulation space for assistive mobility devices and a variety of seating options accommodate a range of personal needs.
For connection
This setting encourages face-to-face interactions to build community and make the most of learning together. Technology-enabled walls and mobile furnishings facilitate presenter or peer-to-peer connections.
For change
Classrooms offer intuitive reconfiguration to reduce disruption during group work sessions. Movable furniture and interactive technologies enhance dynamic, collaborative learning experiences.
Student lounge
These compact settings for groups or individuals support respite, focused work, or casual connections. Student lounges may appear in dorms or academic buildings and are available to the groups using those spaces.
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NaughtOne Pullman Booths support our instinct for security in open spaces.
Chairs and a spacious table by Knoll let people work individually together.
Herman Miller tables and DWR chairs enable choices in seating.
Strategies behind this setting
For wellbeing
This setting helps reduce social isolation by balancing spaces for privacy and connection. An ergonomic range of furnishings fits this setting and the tools within it to the people who will use them.
For connection
Strong ties—people we know and interact with frequently—are helpful in collaboration and problem-solving. This setting allows people to work in close proximity to others, satisfying our desire to be together while working individually.
For change
This adaptable setting gives people control over their environment. Open circulation and opportunities for visual separation help people find and sustain their own productive flow.
Explore more settings
Discover the insights and planning strategies behind other Design with Impact settings.
Individual settings
Individuals determine the outcome of any interaction, and campus environments can support how each person prefers to relax, restore, and spend time alone. These spaces provide the furnishings and tools to cycle between individual work, collaboration, and rest.
Community settings
Community spaces gather people from different groups around a common purpose. They meet the broad range of needs that communities have for the spaces in which they work and connect.
Settings overview
Discover how Design with Impact settings enrich campus environments with spaces that are designed to support people at the community, group, and individual levels.