Spaces and Facilities

Graduate Center for Critical Practice is an initiative of Graduate Art and Graduate Media Design Practices (MDP) at ArtCenter College of Design. The Wind Tunnel, situated between these two programs in a former supersonic jet testing facility on Art Center’s south campus, is a forum for speakers, conferences, exhibitions, residencies,…

The ArtCenter Library actively supports the teaching and research mission of ArtCenter. It serves as the College’s main collaborative learning environment, where students and faculty from various departments gather to explore, discover and create. It is also open to alumni and external researchers.

South Campus The Shop at South Campus offers a broad variety of woodworking and metal tools, including welding equipment, is open to all students who have been appropriately trained on the apparatuses. The Shop features ample indoor and outdoor project space and worktables for constructing or destructing large or bulky…

The Immersion Lab, sponsored by the Interaction Department at ArtCenter College of Design, is a facility that hosts mixed reality courses, workshops, and research. It is open to all students and faculty. Augmented reality, mixed reality and virtual reality are a collection of spatial technologies: wearable displays, architectural sensors, and…

Regardless of what kinds of projects students make computers and electronics are integral to the way in which we work today. Access to code, DIY electronics, and production quality table-top machines are an everyday normality. Access is one thing, designing and communicating through these forms and methods is another. The…

The MDP Studio is a 11,000 square foot dedicated facility for our MDP students. You will have year round 24/7 key carded access to the Studio, Classrooms, Making Lab, Gallery, Fabrication Spaces, Equipment Check-out, and MAC/PC computer stations. Each student receives a studio space that includes a desk, a chair,…