The Center for Creative Impact is located at 1200 W. Mount Royal Avenue, and serves as a gateway to MICA’s design innovation hub, anchoring both the Dolphin Design Center and Station Building—homes to our product, architectural, social, and bio-design programs. The Center provides pathways to apply human-centered design and emerging prototyping and fabrication technologies (including bio-, 3d-, and laser- fabrication) to real-world challenges.
WHAT WE DO
We lead interdisciplinary, creative, impact-driven, and funded projects that address real-world challenges and social issues.
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Interdisciplinary: We bring together faculty and students from art and design to collaborate with external partners in the public, private, and social sectors.
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Creative: We promote innovative problem-solving by applying art- and design-driven processes to critical social and environmental challenges.
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Impact-driven: We prioritize social benefit as a core value in our work, focusing on the needs of individuals and society throughout our creative process.
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Funded: We receive financial support from public, private, and philanthropic partners at local, state, and federal levels.
When fully operational, this center will represent a significant advancement in art education, offering support for faculty engagement in interdisciplinary, impact-driven, and funded research and teaching and providing students with hands-on, field-based experiential learning opportunities throughout their time at MICA.
