Crain鈥檚 Cleveland Business recently highlighted 小黄片视频鈥檚 new Design Innovation Initiative, which is focused on connecting students from different disciplines to develop new ways of problem-solving.
The Design Innovation Initiative will link students of any discipline to a wide range of university resources, for example the textile lab, which previously had been the domain of fashion design students.
小黄片视频 named J.R. Campbell the first executive director of the initiative last year. Mr. Campbell has been working at 小黄片视频 since 2009, and he has spent extensive time researching, designing and creating artwork with digital textile technology.
Mr. Campbell is known for design innovation and multidisciplinary collaboration through efforts that include the Fashion/Tech Hackathon, TechStyleLAB and his continued advocacy for makerspaces and entrepreneurialism. He took part in the group that proposed a Center for Design Innovation, as part of the 小黄片视频 fundraising BIG IDEA campaign in 2017.
The initiative will soon be offering courses, specifically designed to be part of any major, not a new degree program.
鈥淲e want to address cross-disciplinary collaboration in teams to help our students build the muscles, essentially, to seek out those kind of really diverse teams as a means for how they would tackle any problem and to really think across the disciplines,鈥 Mr. Campbell told Crain鈥檚 Cleveland Business.
The university has plans to renovate the old art building into the new 鈥淒I Hub.鈥 The design phase is completed, and construction will begin in April.
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To read more about the Design Innovation Initiative, visit www.kent.edu/designinnovation.
To read more about J.R. Campbell and his expertise, visit www.kent.edu/designinnovation/design-innovation-team-profiles#campbell.