PlaceHack recap!

PlaceHack on Feb. 6 was a huge success! This year’s challenge was on classroom accessibility, with our very own ADA Coordinator Emily Singer Lucio featured as one of the judges. Undergraduate students competing in this 24-hour hack-a-thon hailed from a mix of schools including Architecture, Planning and Preservation; Agriculture and Natural Resources; Business; Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences; and Engineering.  

Teams were challenged to redesign an existing Reckord Armory classroom to be more usable, sustainable and accessible. Then, in only 24 hours, each team crafted their solutions and submitted a mood board, floor plan, renderings, a narrative and a presentation. “All of them did a great job and they did not make it easy to choose a winner,” Emily reports. Let’s hear it for campus collaborations like these, where we put our heads together and break silos across disciplines to solve real access problems to improve our community!

Read more about PlaceHack from the School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation: Old School Gets New Era: In 24-Hour Student Placemaking Challenge, Students Imagine Extreme Makeover for Campus Classroom