In our video, architecture major Katie Marinaro and architecture professor Kevin Klinger talk about this out-of-class, immersive learning experience that allowed students to use computer-aided design to construct these impressive architectural installations. 

• View a video about the Streams project.
• Read the transcript of this video.

Who Produced This Video?
Ball State students, of course. Learn more.

There's Still More

• The Streams project came out of Ball State's Virginia B. Ball Center for Creative Inquiry. The center, located just off campus, allows students to spend a semester working with a professor and a group of students from various majors. At the end of the semester, the students produce a collaborative project that sparks public discussion.
• Streams used digital fabrication techniques being studied and perfected in Ball State's Institute for Digital Fabrication. Read more about the institute's influential work.

Ball State students involved with the Institute for Digital Fabrication help industries across Indiana use new techniques in this emerging field.

Simply put, digital fabrication allows an architect to use a computer to design unique, detailed features like unusual window shapes or elaborate woodwork. The architect sends this file to a manufacturer, who then uses the data to precisely produce that object at an affordable cost.

In Perspective
Get different perspectives about how students are benefiting from this experience:

• Student's view 
• Professor's view 

• June 2007: Voice and Vision
• May 2007: Digital Entertainment
• April 2007: Disaster Planning
• March 2007: Navigating Nature
• Feb. 2007: Streams
• Jan. 2007: Intermedia Arts and Animation
• Dec. 2006: Urban Semester Program
• Nov. 2006: NewsLink Indiana