Improving Community Well-Being through Third Spaces

Hickey, Trevor; Huang, Chloe; Parente, Vincent; Thompson, Riley

Improving Community Well-Being through Third Spaces

dc.contributor.author	Hickey, Trevor	en
dc.contributor.author	Huang, Chloe	en
dc.contributor.author	Parente, Vincent	en
dc.contributor.author	Thompson, Riley	en
dc.date.accessioned	2024-06-13T18:04:32Z	en
dc.date.available	2024-06-13T18:04:32Z	en
dc.date.issued	2024-05-01	en
dc.description	This product is a learning artifact from the Spring 2024 semester of the Honors and UAP SuperStudio courses (UH-4504, UAP-4914, and UH-4514). Course instructors: Ralph Hall, Nikki Lewis, Anne-Lise Velez, and Daron Williams.	en
dc.description.abstract	In our initial research of third spaces and their use, we found a gap between the benefits of third spaces and how planners design those spaces. The existing literature on third spaces is fragmented across a myriad of terms, checksheets, and indexes, each with some overlap but different foci. This discord impedes a planner’s ability to design a third space that effectively accounts for the various factors academics have put forth in their research. To remedy this, we conducted an investigation into the existing understanding of third spaces and aggregated the results into one product, distilling them into a comprehensive list of criteria that is usable for planners. We then applied those criteria to Virginia Tech’s 2047 Beyond Boundaries plan to assess how well the university’s goals align with the existing third space literature. This serves as an example of our criteria in action, demonstrating their applicability. Finally, we created a list of qualitative questions based on our criteria that planners can use when designing a space. This will provide a concrete tool to fill the gap between third space benefits and how planners design third spaces, providing greater clarity and support as they design the spaces of tomorrow.	en
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10919/119433	en
dc.language.iso	en_US	en
dc.rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International	en
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/	en
dc.subject	Third space	en
dc.subject	Community well-being	en
dc.subject	Matrix	en
dc.subject	Criteria	en
dc.subject	Evaluation	en
dc.subject	Virginia Tech	en
dc.subject	University planning	en
dc.subject	Public space	en
dc.subject	Urban space	en
dc.subject	Place-based benefits	en
dc.title	Improving Community Well-Being through Third Spaces	en
dc.type	Student paper	en