Close-up of the beautiful posters behind the piano
Conclusion
Room 65’s versatile design is the gold standard for practice rooms here at Dartmouth College. It is well-lit and spacious, and it opens itself up to take on whatever musical or collaborative challenges students throw its way. Why then, are the sign up sheets perpetually empty and the room seemingly neglected? It’s distant location and lack of named identity isolates it from the main practice areas and creates a disparity between the quality of space it provides and quantity of use it gets. By assigning it a succinct and suggestive name, this space can be opened up to further public discourse and increased use by the Dartmouth community.
A student group collaborates in Room 65
I believe that this formula can work in many different spacial situations. If someone designs a space with a lot of thought and detail, the space deserves a memorable name to reflect that. Whether it is a slightly more unique common area like the East Wheelock Brace Commons, or a space that has nothing to do with campus, like a man made cave beneath Central Park NYC, unique spaces need memorable names in order to avoid neglect and become important within the context of their larger place.
Ramble Cave NYC, Courtesy of Book Worm History
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