Mission

The Dartmouth Resources for Emerging Arts and Media (DREAM Studio) is a research program exploring applications of novel interfaces between physical and virtual space. The DREAM Studio works with faculty, staff, alumni, and students at Dartmouth to integrate cutting-edge extended reality (XR) technologies with interdisciplinary research, teaching, and learning and evaluate their effectiveness. This mission extends to all phases of the research cycle from initial development to dissemination and instruction.

Vision

The DREAM Studio finds ways to practically realize the transformational potential of new technologies for research, teaching, and learning. To explore that potential requires creating a new model of collaboration between faculty, staff, alumni, students, and industry that promotes community and pedagogical innovation alongside technological innovation. The DREAM Studio is an incubator for testing these new models and producing unique experiences that advance education and research practices.

Location

The DREAM Studio is in North Fairbanks Hall (8 Cemetery Lane) in room 002. The easiest entrance is through a side door marked on the map below.

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Studio Guidelines

  • Please be respectful of the times you use the Studio as it is a shared resource and other groups in the building include the meditation center and religious gathering spaces. Please check before doing anything likely to cause excess noise, particularly during business hours.
  • The Studio schedule is available at https://dartgo.org/dream-studio-schedule . Please check it before coming in. Contact us to reserve the space if needed.
  • You are responsible for your actions within the space and will be held accountable for damages, losses, or injuries that occur while you are there. Behave accordingly.
  • Please leave food and drink out of the main Studio space. There are side rooms available that we can open if you want to eat without leaving North Fairbanks.
  • All people in the space must be approved by staff. Do not use your card to let others into the space.

History

The DREAM Studio began in 2017 as the Data Experiences and Visualizations (DEV) Studio. A unit within Research Computing, DEV was designed primarily to work with Dartmouth faculty who had sponsored projects using augmented and virtual reality. As DEV hired more and more students to contribute to those projects, we also began to offer dedicated programming like the XR for the Humanities fellowship program to help those students gain experience with both the technical and cultural implications of emerging technologies. In 2024, DEV moved to its new home in the Magnuson Center, rebranded itself as the DREAM Studio, and refocused on supporting both student and faculty work across research, experience, and commercialization applications.

DEV Steering Committee

The DEV Studio’s Steering Committee helped launch DEV/DREAM to ensure the Studio supported research, teaching, and learning across the entire Dartmouth campus. Launch steering committee members included:

  • Nicola Camerlenghi, Assoc. Prof. of Architectural History
  • Jonathan Chipman, Director of the Citrin Family GIS/Applied Spatial Analysis Laboratory
  • Joseph Hall, Sr. Assoc. Dean for Teaching and Learning and David T. McLaughlin D’54, T’55 Clinical Professor, Tuck School of Business
  • Joshua Kol, Managing Director and Executive Producer, Hopkins Center for the Arts
  • Eugene Korsunskiy, Assoc. Prof. of Engineering and co-Director of Design Initiative at Dartmouth
  • James Mahoney, Research Scientist and Lecturer, Computer Science
  • Roopika Risam, Assoc. Prof. of Film and Media Studies & Comparative Literature
  • Caroline Robertson, Asst. Prof. of Psychological and Brain Sciences
  • Daniel Rockmore, William H. Neukom 1964 Distinguished Professor of Computational Science, Prof. of Math and Computer Science, and Director of the Neukom Institute for Computational Science

Support

The DREAM Studio has been developed with the generous support of several campus partners including:

  • Office of the Provost
  • Dean of the Faculty Office
  • Neukom Institute for Computational Science
  • Leslie Center for the Humanities
  • The Magnuson Center for Entrepreneurship
  • Information, Technology and Consulting
  • Dartmouth College Library
  • The Design Initiative at Dartmouth