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Future Dining at Chestnut: Cultivating Reciprocity at Chestnut Dining Hall
The Innovation Hub has partnered with Food Services at Chestnut Residence to consult directly with students about their dining hall experiences. Through this project, the Innovation Hub facilitated opportunities for dialogue with the student Residence community to build an ongoing partnership for future change.
Fall/Winter 2021-2023
How can we improve student dining experiences?
Food Services approached the Innovation Hub in the fall of 2021 seeking support to design impactful student consultation and co-design for the future of Food Services operations at Chestnut. To learn more about the ongoing student needs at Chestnut, we conducted a series of student-led feedback sessions and interviews. After collecting and analyzing feedback, we developed a report designed to aid in planning collaborative community dialogue events at Chestnut in fall 2022. These fall events utilized a co-creation approach to facilitate opportunities for Chestnut residents and Food Services to collectively imagine the future of Chestnut dining.
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