Design Innovation News Center
Design Innovations鈥檚 newest node brings the future of education to campus. The Learning Innovations Lab, located in White Hall, joins 25+ DI nodes at Kent State. The node鈥檚 divergence from the traditional makerspace - technology in the lab largely focuses on education - gives it a distinct presence on campus.
Ryan Davis, Exercise Physiology graduate student, and his student approached two DI Crew members, Nick Cindrich and Julian Leff, with a disability issue regarding a classroom tool.
The gallery鈥檚 latest exhibit, 鈥淒raining the Swamp: An Environmental History of Wetlands on the Kent Campus,鈥 features decades of maps and newspaper clippings that tell the story of the once heavily forested campus. The centerpiece is a scaled down 3D model of the campus鈥 geography, including drained and preserved wetlands.
A fungus that spent a week inside a grow tent has taken over the MuseLab. This isn鈥檛 the start of a science fiction novel, or an episode of 鈥淭he Last of Us,鈥 it鈥檚 鈥淧arty of One: Future Fungal Furniture.鈥 The exhibit is the first publicly shared experiment of Britta Bielak鈥檚 research on the potential that mycelium, the root-like structure of a fungus, has as a regenerative and structural building material.
Valle鈥檚 鈥淓xploring 3D Print Waste in Fashion鈥 is a graduate student thesis that seeks to challenge industry standards. Elegant garments dot the room as part of a timeline that takes the viewer on a journey of initial curiosity to full-scale application of 3D print waste in textile design and co-creation.
Design Innovation welcomes its 1,000th collaborator, reaching the milestone in just under two years.
Connor Ruppelt, a senior sculpture major at 起点传媒, wanted to step outside his comfort zone on his latest project and explore new technologies for sculpture fabrication 鈥 thanks to the facilities and expertise available at the Design Innovation Hub he was able to do just that.
The Design Innovation (DI) collaborator network will grow this semester as the DI Hub and its makerspaces open to the public through a new community membership.
Rapids Grant will bolster workforce development with future Kent State graduates filling key shortages in industries across Ohio.