Other Institutions
Academic institutions across the country, many similar to Swarthmore, are developing facilities that share CoRaL’s basic philosophy: non-disciplinary spaces that bring people together through inspiration and creation. Many of these institutions, such as Davidson or Haverford, have found this in the trend of MakerSpaces: facilities aimed at providing resources for digital fabrication, such as 3D Printers, lazer cutters, and CNC mills, that hope to engender innovation through technological possibility. Other institutions, such as RISD, have created amazing collections of objects that are accessible to the entire community, be it for inspiration, intrigue, or research. Below is a list of some of those institutions and their non-disciplinary facilities.
Haverford College: KINSC Maker Space
Davidson College: Campus Maker and Innovation Space (Studio M)
Havard University: Wyss Institute Bioinspired Robotics
Smith College: Center for Design and Fabrication
RISD: Edna Lawrence Nature Lab
University of Mary Washington: MakerSpace
UW-Madison: Morgridge Rapid Protyping Center
Purdue University: Artisan and Fabrication Lab (AFL)
University of Southern California: Student Innovation Center
University of Southern California: Undergraduate Fabrication Lab
Northwestern University: Nuvention
Harvard University: Innovation Lab
Duke University: Innovation Co-lab
Georgia Tech version of Garage Physics and Invention Studio
North Carolina State University: Garage and proposed innovation center
University of Pennsylvania: Ed. Tech Incubator
University of Florida: Innovation Academy
Lehigh University: Maker Space
University of Michigan: MakerBridge