Build the Center for Media, Arts, Computing, and Design
The center will play a significant role in Clark’s interdisciplinary curriculum, which encourages students to gain a broader perspective on the world by learning through multiple lenses.
Currently under construction at Woodland and Hawthorne streets, the four-story, 70,000-square-foot Center for Media Arts, Computing, and Design will draw students and faculty from across the University for creative collaboration, interdisciplinary learning, and emergent scholarship and research in computer and data science and other technologies, art and design, and music.
As part of our goal to advance academic and research excellence at Clark, we are constructing an academic building that will highlight synergies in Computer Science, Visual and Performing Arts, and the Becker School of Design & Technology.
“The ideals of interdisciplinarity and the core values of our liberal education are baked into this building and this center’s structural DNA,” said Betsy Huang, the Andrea B. and Peter D. Klein ’64 Distinguished Professor in the English Department. “We all know the sparks that happen when we put people of great creativity, intellect, and decency in the same space.”
This initiative supports the following goals and areas of focus:
- Academic and Research Excellence
- Greater Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
- Enhanced Campus Experience
- Impactful Outward Engagement
- Broader Institutional Capacity
