Digital Media

Using digital media in the design process and having saturated information systems has become a crucial part of the School's curriculum. The School provides students with a high quality and solid information infrastructure, including e-mail, roaming server space, and server service. The School has its own proprietary digital media facilities that consist of a centralized server-pool for high quality distributed information systems, remote computer clusters and high-end workstations throughout the School, architectural software solutions, and integrated design tools. Each advanced studio student's drafting station is provided with a high-end computer workstation, including an LCD monitor. For the remaining students, the School provides computers in different platforms for students' design, research, computational, communication, and fabrication needs. Network ports located throughout the studios allow students to have their own computers at their drafting station. The School provides data projectors, digital cameras, large-format plotters, 2-D and 3-D printers, and scanners for individual student use. In addition, students at the School have access to the Digital Media Center for the Arts (DMCA) at 149 York Street, a multimedia facility that was created to explore new areas of education and cross-disciplinary interaction that result when traditional art collides with the computer age.