List the top 20 questions your team needs to answer to advance the venture forward. Categorize the questions if necessary.
- How is our project supposed to better the experiences of students at Lehigh?
- How can we develop our living wall so that is long lasting and has the desired impact?
- What are the most important operations on campus relevant to our project?
- What do our stakeholders want out of this living wall?
- What information do we need from Lehigh students that we can receive through our survey?
- How will we raise interest in our living wall?
- Who needs to approve of our project processes (i.e. who gives us permission to build our wall in one building versus another)?
- What does our project timeline look like?
- What safety regulations do we need to follow for our project?
- How will the creation of a living wall impact other functions at Lehigh?
- What are some of the positive and negative externalities of our living wall?
- Are there any potential setbacks we can try to predict and create a plan of action for?
- How do we plan on measuring the success of our project?
- How do we prioritize our commitment to sustainability?
- Where on Lehigh’s campus will this living wall be placed?
- What are our budget limitations and who determines them?
- What materials do we need?
- Is a hydroponics or soil based wall more preferable?
- How do we apply the cradle2cradle principle in the living wall?
- How will COVID affect our in person building process?
| Inputs | Outputs |
Outcomes — Impact |
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| Activities | Participation |
Short |
Medium |
Long |
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| Infrastructure
Ideas Research Community of invested, skilled individuals |
Sending out surveys to gain student & stakeholder input
Build scalable, Sustainable, low(er) cost Living Wall
Research effects of living wall exposure (increased creativity, decreased stress, etc.)
Post-implementation survey
Marketing wall (long term)
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Lehigh students and faculty
Long-term consumers of living walls (community centers, businesses, homeowners) |
– Aesthetic appeal
– Noise Reduction
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– Improved air quality
– Reducing school-related stress – Increase student’s creativity |
– Improved mental health
– Model for future living walls – Making green infrastructure more accessible |
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| Assumptions
The living wall will reduce stress, increase creativity, and improve mental wellbeing (based on previous research) Students will benefit from the wall Living wall will increase air quality There is an increasing demand for low-cost, sustainable green infastructure |
External Factors
Building codes/University regulations Budget Weather Covid Student’s mental health baseline shifiting (many confounding variables for long term measurements) |
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Develop a M&E plan for your venture.
Clearly list all assumptions.
- Living wall will reduce stress and improve mental wellbeing
- There is an increasing demand for low-cost, sustainable green infrastructure
- Living wall will enhance air quality and positive affect the environment
Identify short-term and long-term success metrics.
Short term success: Sending survey to multiple students and faculty regarding their feelings towards a living wall; this will directly influence our decisions, since with their input and our educated research, we will be able to make an informed, well-thought out decision about the goal of the living wall and how it can make an impact.
Long-term success: measuring changes in air quality, trials/experiments to measure change in physiological stress when near the living wall, perceived happiness, & creativity.
(Optional) identify specific methods to measure the metrics.
Air Quality: long-term questions in levels of CO, CO2, VOCs, particulate matter, etc.
Physiological stress: change in heart rate, blood pressure, cortisol, etc. during time next to living wall
Perceived happiness: measured through survey
Creativity: draw from previous studies to formulate measurement technique (ex: unique idea listing)