Hill Library’s new Innovation Studio launches Feb. 8

Are you ready to shape the future? Then join the Libraries in launching the Innovation Studio in the Hill Library with an online tour of exhibits and a short teaching program on Monday, Feb. 8, from 6:00 p.m.-7:15 p.m. on the Libraries’ Twitch channel.

You’ll get a taste of our teaching program in a fun, interactive exercise in “futures thinking,” and hear about our exhibits featuring innovative work from across NC State. We’ll be joined by local design firm Relative Scale, who helped build a novel interactive projection system for the Studio, and by students and faculty whose work it features.

“The Innovation Studio is meant to celebrate and catalyze innovation on campus,” says Adam Rogers, the Libraries’ Head of Making and the Innovation Studio. “We hope to grow NC State students' understanding of innovation and its role in society, spur their creative thinking, and give them tools and methods for bringing innovation to their academic and other work.”

Open now for in-person visits, the Innovation Studio is open Mon.-Fri., 10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. to browse the interactive exhibits. The selection of exhibits available at launch includes a look at NC State’s annual juried fashion show Art2Wear, a variety of recordings by NC State musicians through the Libraries’ State of Sound series, a tour of zines and comics, and much more.

These aren’t your typical interactive exhibits, either. You wave your hand over menus projected onto tabletops to activate multimedia content. The work you’ll see is innovative—and the way you’ll see it is innovative, too.

The Studio will also offer a full slate of workshops (currently online, eventually hands-on) on tools and methods that spark innovation, and will host talks and programs that feature innovators and their projects.