Tag: 30th anniversary
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Celebrating 30 Years: The History of Groundworks’ Conversion Racks
In the early 2000s, the Duderstadt Center’s Groundworks Media Lab had double of something that still exists today: the conversion rack. The conversion rack is a resource that takes different types of analog and outdated media and converts it into a digital format. When Groundworks moved to its current location
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Celebrating 30 Years: When Design Lab Housed CTools
In 2016, the University of Michigan began implementing a new technology, called Canvas, to house its courses online. Up to that point, the online learning platform used University-wide was called CTools, an online learning management system developed at U-M whose management worked out of what is now the Duderstadt Center’s
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Celebrating 30 Years: Where 2D Becomes 3D
From 2008 to 2019, the Duderstadt Center’s 3D-related technologies could be found in a space called the 3D Lab, which was preceded by the Virtual Reality Lab or VRL, located in the DC since 1997. The 3D Lab housed many different ways to make two-dimensional objects in three-dimensions through virtual
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Celebrating 30 Years: Expanding Access to Tomorrow’s Technology
Over its thirty years of existence, the Duderstadt Center has created a space where state-of-the-art technology meets student, faculty, and staff creativity. Couple Yuqing Melanie Wu, a 2004 College of Engineering Ph.D. graduate, and Qiang Lin, a 2001 College of Engineering Masters graduate, recall their experience with the Duderstadt Center’s
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Celebrating 30 Years: Walking Through Immedia
In the early 2000s, the Duderstadt Center held an annual event in February called Immedia in which students, with the support of faculty, directed a three day event for audiences to see their work. From 7-10pm, visitors could walk around the Duderstadt Center looking at student-lead work across a diverse
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Celebrating 30 Years: Looking Back at the Visualization Studio
The Visualization (Viz) Studio has seen technology maneuver through time, with the walls changing as much as the technology changed itself. What now comprises the Viz Studio at one point used to be four different rooms, each with a different purpose. There was one room for ArtsEngine, one room for