The Interactive Commons (IC) at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) was established in 2013 as an innovation institute dedicated to connecting individuals within and beyond our campus through technology and advanced visualization to further research and education.
The IC focuses on applying interdisciplinary teams to solve problems, supported by the language and tools of extended reality technology (XR), an umbrella term for virtual reality, augmented reality, and mixed reality. As a team of developers, artists, professors and business leaders, we are working together to define the future of our university by anticipating changes in the broader world.
"The IC is a place where there are people who can make the dream visible."
SONYA RHIE-MACE
George P. Bickford Curator of Indian and Southeast Asian Art
THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART
In partnership with the Cleveland Museum of Art, the IC developed an XR experience as part of the groundbreaking "Revealing Krishna - Journey to Cambodia's Sacred Mountain" exhibit, which opened November 14th, 2021. To learn more, click the button.
The IC has established several key resources that allow people to create and work with visual information. All of these are located in the IC's space, which can be accessed at the Thwing Building, next to the Tinkham Veale University Center and the Kelvin Smith Library.
The IC hosted the largest shared-group mixed reality experience, which took place over the course of eight separate performances of Imagined Odyssey, a co-production with the CWRU Department of Dance.
This node diagram depicts the collaborative culture at Case Western Reserve University. Each dot represents an individual investigator, and more than 10,0000 collaborative grants link investigators across our campus. The IC endeavors to connect even more of these dots to find collaborative solutions to the complex challenges that face our world.
MEET THE TEAM
ERIN HENNINGER
Executive Director
MARK GRISWOLD
Faculty Director
ROB GOTSCHALL
Dev Team
ANDREW GRANT-COOK
Dev Team
PETER GAO
Dev Team
LIZ HONOLD
Finance + Operations Manager
KAREN RHOAD
Director
Special Projects
JEFF MLAKAR
Dev Team
ANNA FAXON
Senior Project Manager
HENRY EASTMAN
Dev Team
