It takes a village 

Bob Handelman

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Bob Handelman

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In our July/August 2024 issue, we reported on the Divinity School’s Living Village, an ambitious effort to achieve a new level of sustainability in building design. Now, it’s up and running. This view from the tower of Marquand Chapel shows the Divinity Quadrangle’s existing buildings at the bottom and the new Living Village residence hall and its courtyard at center left. To the right of the new building are a kitchen garden, a water garden where the building’s water filtration process will be visible, and a hillside amphitheater overlooking East Rock. At the October blessing and ribbon ceremony, Divinity School dean Gregory Sterling said the project is “a countercultural call that emphasizes the role and value of a community at a time when the centrifugal forces of our society are pulling us further and further apart.”