About

Impossible
is a good place to start 

The Interactive Commons (IC) at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) was established in 2014 as a center to connect individuals from across our campus and our region through advanced visualization to further research and education.

We believe that interdisciplinary engagement is the force that compels unique and transformative solutions to our society’s most challenging problems. 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.

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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 has developed a HoloLens experience as part of the groundbreaking "Revealing Krishna - Journey to Cambodia's Sacred Mountain" exhibit, which opened November 14th 2021. To learn more, click Krishna.

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

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ERIN HENNINGER

Executive Director

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MARK GRISWOLD

Faculty Director

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ROB GOTSCHALL

Dev Team

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ANDREW GRANT-COOK

Dev Team

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PETER GAO

Dev Team

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LIZ HONOLD

Finance + Operations Manager

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AMBREESE HILL

Art Team

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KAREN RHOAD

Director
Special Projects

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JEFF MLAKAR

Dev Team

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ANNA FAXON

Senior Project Manager

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CAT MCALLESTER

Senior Director
Engagement

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HENRY EASTMAN

Dev Team

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ANASTASIYA KURYLYUK

Art Team