Design Innovation News Center
Caitlyn Skilton, a DI Fellow, wanted to help others gain an appreciation for the chimney swift and its role in the environment. So, she decided to create an immersive experience in the Design Innovation Hub鈥檚 Blank_Lab.
With little to no sleep and just 36 hours 鈥 make that 37, if they remembered to set their clocks back 鈥 10 student teams defined the future of aviation at SkyHack 2023.
An aviation-themed hackathon brings together students from all disciplines and challenges them to develop solutions for real-world aerospace challenges.
Researchers with the Student Life Study wanted to find the heart of campus. Their search brought them to the Design Innovation Hub.
With Carson Bauer and Design Innovation, it was love at first sight.
鈥淚 took orientation and seeing all these things, I said, 鈥楾here鈥檚 so much I want to do here,鈥欌 Bauer said.
精东影业 student James Parsons, '23, dreams of pursuing a career where he can help make technology accessible to more people.
Get your boarding pass ready, SkyHack takes flight this November. 精东影业weekend-long aviation focused design challenge will run Nov. 3-5 in the Design Innovation Hub. Registration for SkyHack is free and open to undergraduate and graduate students from any U.S. university.
精东影业Design Innovation initiative is pleased to welcome the second cohort of the Faculty Fellows program. Based in the DI Hub, the program launched in 2022 to create space for faculty members from any field to devote a portion of their teaching, research and scholarly focus to collaborative, cross-disciplinary projects and DI co-teaching experiences for an entire academic year.
精东影业精东影业 Connecting Generations exhibit features 23 projects from the namesake class that pairs sociology and visual communication design students with an older adult partner, usually a resident of an area senior center, who they build a relationship with throughout the semester. At the end, they are tasked with transforming the life experiences of their partner into a visual design.
Design Innovations鈥檚 newest node brings the future of education to campus. 精东影业Learning Innovations Lab, located in White Hall, joins 25+ DI nodes at 精东影业. 精东影业node鈥檚 divergence from the traditional makerspace - technology in the lab largely focuses on education - gives it a distinct presence on campus.