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Spaces & Places

The DI Ecosystem is made up of student-ready DI makerspaces located throughout Kent State鈥檚 eight-campus system. The Kent campus features 26 DI nodes, each with specialized equipment and areas of creative focus. The DI Hub is a large, open-access collaborative and innovation accelerator environment on the Kent campus that will open in Fall 2020. The DI HUB space will include the DI Hatchery, small, short-term incubator spaces, managed by DI GROUP and LaunchNet.

 

  • Classrooms & Research

    Classrooms & Research

    The DI HUB houses a number of spaces dedicated to research and academic activities including the DI Theatre/Auditorium, DI Studio Classroom, Innovation Teaching Kitchen, Shared Faculty Studio, Fellows Suite and DI Gallery.

  • REACTOR Shops & Labs

    REACTOR Shops & Labs

    The DI Labs are makerspaces located inside the DI HUB that support innovation and collaboration. The largest of these is the REACTOR, which hosts a number of single-purpose "shops" in its interior to directly support collaborative prototyping/making activities.

  • BDMF Entrepreneur Suite

    BDMF Entrepreneur Suite

    This suite in the DI HUB constitutes an entrepreneurship zone that covers the LaunchNET office; each of the i3 Lab spaces; and the inspirationally situated Seminar Room at the end of the hall overlooking the Shared Faculty Studio and out onto the May 4 Commons.

  • DI Dining

    DI Dining

    DI Dining is located on the 3rd floor of the Design Innovation Hub. 麻豆精选has partnered with InSinkErator庐 through the implementation of Grind2Energy庐, an organics recovery process that converts food waste to renewable energy. Food waste from the DI HUB is ground on-site using a customized, industrial-strength foodservice grinder.