Information is everywhere!
True communication is rare.
DALI helps our partners stand out from the glut of information. We help partners communicate
effectively in order to change behavior, enhance
understanding, and create delight.
“People ignore design that ignores people.”
—Frank Chimero
We build mindfully designed,
creative technology solutions
to a wide variety of communication
challenges.
- Foster the skills and mindset of creativity, innovation and leadership.
- Provide an experiential learning opportunity that augments classroom learning and turns theory into practice.
DALI Mission
(student-centered)
- Design and Develop technology tools to help partners cut through the noise and get their messages noticed and understood .
- Develop communication strategies for partners.
- Offer super-creative solutions built by digital natives.
DALI Mission
(partner-centered)
Vision
Dartmouth is the leader in developing innovative approaches to a liberal arts education.
DALI is a key asset of the College, living at the intersection between liberal arts and the design/tech/data industries.
We are a model of what experiential learning can be.
Maker Spaces
Accelerators
Incubators
Stanford dSchool
Data Viz Labs
Industry
MIT Media Lab
Capstone Courses
DALI
Is Unique
DALI
is
Safe space for risk taking
DOC Model
Liberal Arts approach to tech
Alternative Social Space
Experiential Learning Design and Prototyping Lab
Leadership Camp
Innovation
and Research
Applied Liberal Arts
Information, Behavioral Economics, Communication
Human Centered Design
Designers Develop,
Developers Design
Undergraduate Focus
Purpose Driven Research
Our History
Energy Use Feedback
Better than predicted
Worse than predicted
DALI Work
Children’s Environmental Health Study on Arsenic
Mobile Apps and Sensing
NASA Mars Stress Reduction Application (NSBRI)
Arts Education
Early Warning Project — Holocaust Museum and Center for Prevention of Genocide
Milton Reading Room
Digital Fashion
How does DALI work?
How We Work
Small teams work on
BIG
problems
20
PROJECTS
65
STUDENTS
per term
PROJECTS
81
In 2.5 years
in 2.5 years
Diversity
U.S. CS Majors
< 20%
Dartmouth CS Majors
30%
DALI Lab
50%
Women in Computer Science
Experiential Learning Lab
Problem Solving
Teamwork
Leadership
DALI Overview
By DALI Lab
