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Pilot projects are among the tools Stanford is using to plan town center spaces and to provide interesting and meaningful opportunities for the current campus community to engage. 

Portal & Piazza

Campus groups and units used the Portal and Piazza as a resource, platform, and space to showcase their work in Fall 2024. The shipping container transformed into an outdoor space that hosted performances, activities, and small-scale events that could be seen and heard from the cafe outside the Green Library.

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Popup Pavilion 

A collaboration with Stanford Medicine's Our Voice gathered input and feedback about a popup pavilion project in White Plaza, including ideas for that space and other civic spaces to come. 

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COLLEGE: Linger & Mingle

The Office of Community Engagement collaborated with the COLLEGE program to pilot the activation of a new or underutilized space for social gathering. After screening a documentary about Leland Stanford Jr. and the founding of the university, first-year students had an opportunity to venture into the courtyard outside Memorial Auditorium, continue conversations inspired by the film, and mingle with peers. In addition to snacks, music, and bingo, students participated in an activity to inform the creation of the fall quarter COLLEGE theatrical production.

Paint Your Values

In collaboration with the Haas Center's What Do You StandFor? campaign and the Office of the Vice President for the Arts, a Paint Your Values activity was held at the Pavilion in White Plaza, which is a new informal outdoor space near the stage for studying, relaxing, and socializing, for campus community members to co-create a triptych piece on canvas. Community members selected paint colors based on their values they wished to contribute to the piece.