“These are not kids who are going to sit back and say, ‘I don’t know how to do that,’ ” says Susan Metros, associate dean of the USC Jimmy Iovine and Andre Young Academy for Arts, Technology and the Business of Innovation (a program of the USC Roski School of Art and Design) and interim CIO of USC’s Marshall School of Business. “They’re always thinking about how to make things happen, and nothing seems to stop them.”
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CMU has recently added the IDeATe program which is essentially a makers space. I still am not completely sure what IDeATe entails but I am taking a class with them next mini that will give me access to their facilities. I was confused at first why it was in the library but after reading this article I see that is fairly common practice. My concern about our maker space is it is very reliant on technology. I was hoping we would have a maker space that would also have high quality woodworking and metal working tools. I have been looking for a place to continue my love of creating outside of the classroom and I can use the shop but it is often packed and isn’t set up as a shop for woodworking since it is setup as a scene shop. I am in the process of gaining access to the architecture woodshop so I can have a different space to work but It would be great if we had somewhere on campus that was easy to get access to that students could use to follow their hobbies and passions.
I can’t begin to express how amazing I think this is. Every human being has innate curiosity and creativity; it’s a matter of whether or not that nature is nourished that determines the course of its development. I am glad to say that I do to a college at the forefront of this movement. Between IDeate, BXA and build your own major CMU offers many opportunities for students to express and combine interests into growing career fields. Something I’ve found is that there are always people of influence, especially in the arts, like Lovine and Young, who are willing to give out funds to start these programs. If only we could get large colleges to accept these patrons. If the large schools acted as the guinea pigs for these creativity experiments it probably would not be long before minor and technical schools, maybe even high school started to turn their attention more towards a combining of the arts and other subjects, rather than the separation of those subjects departmentally.
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