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Facilities + Labs

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I turn my ideas into reality in 248,000 square feet of amazing makerspaces.

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Unleash Your Creativity

You'll have the freedom to explore, collaborate and create like never before. Our dedicated faculty and staff are by your side, offering guidance and sharing the secrets of our cutting-edge equipment every step of the way.

Launch Experience

Makerspaces

For almost any material imaginable, CIA has the tools to shape, craft, and elevate it into a unique creation.

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Metals Studio

Dedicated studio for fabricating in metals.

35000 feet of welding wire used each year.

6500 degree temperature for arc welding.

Metals Studio

Wood Kiln

One of only a few at a college of art and design.

400 works fired each semester.

2300 degree temperature for wood kiln.

Wood Kiln

A glass major is adding the stem to a glass pumpkin.

Glass Studios

Capabilities to work in hot glass, cold glass, fusion processes and flameworking.

2000 miles of glass tubing formed.

5 glass furnaces.

Glass Studios

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Digital Forming

Use technology to form in ceramic, glass metal, wood and more.

11 3D printers.

3 CNC cutters, including a 5’x8’ system that cuts vertically and horizontally.

Digital Forming

Ceramics Studio

Surfacing, cutting, shaping, sanding, turning, drilling and fastening.

5 tons of clay used each year.

1000 glazing color options.

Ceramics Studio

Wood Shop

Fabrication space for working with wood.

1100 inches of bandsaw blades used each year.

6200 sheets Baltic Birch plywood used each year.

Wood Shop

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Jewelry + Metals

Traditional and digital tools for producing wearable art and small-scale sculpture.

21 soldering stations.

265 colors for enameling.

Jewelry + Metals

Sears Think[box]

Think[box] is a seven-story, 50,000 square foot innovation center and makerspace. It is on Case Western Reserve University's campus and is open to all students. Whether you’re looking for prototyping and fabrication equipment, space to brainstorm, legal and business support to commercialize intellectual property, or guidance to create market-ready products with real-world impact, the team at think[box] can help.

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Interactive Media Lab

Imagine animating in an extended reality (XR) studio or testing your video game concept in an in-house arcade. Now envision creating product prototypes using augmented reality (AR) or customizing vehicle designs in a virtual reality (VR) environment. These opportunities—and many others, including yours—will come to life in our Interactive Media Lab (IML) opening in Spring 2025.

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Equipment Checkout

This is the best campus resource to borrow technology. Thousands of items, available free of charge to you. Think of anything small like HDMI cables to large items like a 4K Blackmagic Production camera or HD projector. Even video games and consoles! Find the technology to support your wildest ideas.

Facilities + Labs

Unleash Your Creativity

Makerspaces

Metals Studio

Wood Kiln

Glass Studios

Digital Forming

Ceramics Studio

Wood Shop

Jewelry + Metals

Sears Think[box]

Interactive Media Lab

Equipment Checkout

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