{"id":1386,"date":"2024-09-13T01:40:34","date_gmt":"2024-09-13T01:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/campus-environments\/?page_id=1386"},"modified":"2026-07-18T03:27:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T03:27:25","slug":"campus-design-lab","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/campus-environments\/planning-and-spatial-experience-office\/campus-design-lab\/","title":{"rendered":"Campus Design Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Campus Design Lab (CDL)<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The Campus Design Lab (CDL) focuses on improving the built environment of the M\u0101noa campus in a variety of ways, with a focus on creating user-friendly spaces for the campus community, and expanding student engagement. This is done through large scale projects covering an entire building, to smaller projects that renovate individual rooms. Types of projects that the CDL utilize in pursuit of these goals include: design studies, research\/user workshops, planning studies, design system, and digital screen design.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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How We Operate<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The Campus Design Lab is the outreach arm of the Office of Planning and Spatial Experience<\/a><\/strong>. The lab is a space where the university community comes together to imagine future learning, living, and working experiences specific to this campus. Special projects are staffed by students from departments across the university, giving students valuable work experience fulfilling projects for clients. Students are led by principal investigators, faculty, and design professionals, including architects, user researchers, graphic designers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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At the Campus Design Lab, we follow an iterative process that centers users throughout every phase of a project\u2014from early research to post-occupancy evaluation. Our approach moves through six key stages: Research, Ideate, Fund, Learn, Construct,<\/strong> and Learn<\/strong> again, forming a continuous loop of improvement. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We offer tailored services depending on where a project is in its lifecycle. In the Research<\/strong> phase, we gather user insights and data to inform priorities. During Ideation<\/strong>, we help shape design concepts. In the Funding<\/strong> phase, we support project justification and strategy. We also test and refine concepts with users in the Learn<\/strong> phase before and after Construction<\/strong>. This ensures that every project is grounded in real needs and continues to evolve after completion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Contact opse@hawaii.edu<\/strong> for preliminary project advising.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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