CADC well represented in Research Week’s Creative Scholarship Showcase

Nearly 40 creative research projects by CADC faculty, graduate and undergraduate students were exhibited in the Research Week 2014 Creative Scholarship Showcase at the Auburn and Dixon Conference Center, April 15‒16. Every school was represented, and projects ranged from the collaboration by interior architecture professor Sheri Schumacher and graphic designer professor Robert Finkel that created the Alabama Workshop[s] Brochure/Poster; industrial design student Ben Travis’s portable coffee press; graphic design student Avenley Horner’s Form Magazine; to landscape architecture professor David Hill’s Phenology project. “The depth, breadth and beauty of CADC creative research is, as Karen Rogers, CADC Associate Dean for Research, describes it, “absolutely stunning.”

This year the Research Week 2014 Creative Scholarship Committee, representing the Colleges of Architecture, Design and Construction, Human Sciences and Liberal Arts, came up with the idea of a “showcase” to better display the creative research of Auburn faculty and students in the fields of fine and applied arts and design, the performing arts, creative writing, and other related disciplines. As Rogers explains, “In general, research is understood as it’s related to the sciences, but creative research is just as much about discipline and rigor as this Showcase demonstrates. It is technical and beautiful. We make beautiful things that actually do something.”