WPI’s Global Lab in the Innovation Studio helps engage partners and strengthen the worldwide knowledge and practice ecosystem among our community. A media makerspace in the Global Lab allows for transmedia storytelling, creative scholarship, and communication with local and global partners.
Through The Global School, the university's growing network of domestic and international project centers is expanding the reach and impact of its project-based education. As the number of locations grows, the complexity of student projects is also increasing, and the opportunity to share this work and connect it with stakeholder communities is compelling. The Global Lab, as part of The Global School, fosters this expansion in project impacts.
The Global Lab is a collaboratory space for students, faculty, staff, visiting scholars, postdocs, non-governmental organizations (NGOs)-in-residence, artists-in-residence, and organizational leaders to interact, imagine, and bring ideas to life using creative collaboration and state-of-the-art media studios available.
The Global Lab deepens global partnerships by integrating partners through video, audio, and multi-platform media. Even when partners can’t travel to Worcester, the voices of partners around the world are present.
Work in the Global Lab will happen in four key areas:
Events and gatherings in the Global Lab invite outside scholars and experts with whom attendees can examine their work and gain pedagogical and technical insight. Discussions and dialog about the different approaches presented will enhance teaching in the Lab and deepen understanding of how work in the Lab can have a larger impact.
A recent campus visit by documentary filmmaker Alexander Lee included a film screening followed by a discussion about documentary filmmaking techniques, strategies, and filmmaking in the context of student projects. An informal critique of student work invited feedback and discussion of different techniques to improve outcomes. Listen to the podcast with Alexander Lee.
