2. Dolphin Design Center

MICA Walking Tour: Dolphin Design Center

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MICA's newest building, the Dolphin Design Center, houses state-of-the-art fabrication labs, classrooms, and collaborative areas for BFA programs in Architectural Design, Game Design, Product Design, and Interactive Arts, as well as studio minors in Game Arts and Sound Art.

The 25,000 square foot building functions as a space for 21st century creative makers, and is a dynamic facility that fosters creativity, collaboration, and entrepreneurship for the next generation of artists and designers.

Students in all programs housed in the Dolphin Design Center work in areas designed to foster collaboration.

Programs also give students access to the equipment they'll need to develop the professional and technical skills needed when they graduate.

With a traditional fabrication lab on the first floor and digital fabrication space on the fourth, the Dolphin Design Center supports the multidisciplinary ways in which creative makers now work.

“The Dolphin building has a woodshed downstairs on the first floor. It’s very extensive. It has bandsaws, table saws, C&C routers, a plastic crimper, a vacuum-forming tool, drill presses, all sorts of hand tools that you might need. That is very useful because when you’re completing assignments, you don’t have to run to all ends of the campus. I think that’s one of the strengths of the campus overall: Wherever you are, you’re pretty close to the tools you’ll need for your major.” - Herschel Ruben ’21, Product Design