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By Randy Rice
While the Fayetteville Chamber of Commerce's Fab
Lab is serving the community with its cutting-edge
resources, about a half hour's drive north, Northwest
Arkansas Community College (NWACC) is breaking
down the barriers between the fine arts and the practical
arts with their innovative Integrated Design Lab.
"It started with a concept as many things do—an
idea that our president, Dr. Jorgenson, had that we
should be looking at integrating art and construction
design," Dr. Tim Cornelius, Vice President of Career and
Workforce Education at NWACC, said. "We set out to
build a space these disciplines can share because they
complement each other. We designed a building where
the artists and construction design students could work
together and enhance their educational experience by
learning from each other."
in
NWACC's
Integrated
Design Lab:
Design
thinking
action
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