Making and creating have long been a part of RIT’s DNA. So has the drive to innovate.
With a $120 million investment, Rochester Institute of Technology opened a dynamic, state-of-the-art complex that centralizes the university’s multidisciplinary focus on creativity and innovation.
RIT’s SHED – the Student Hall for Exploration and Development – serves as the university’s creative hub. The building features makerspaces and performing arts stages and studios, providing dedicated space for students to create, imagine and build through inspired learning, making, testing, performing and doing. The SHED also will display student work and activities year-round for all of campus to view and experience.
“The SHED will be where prospective students and their parents will stop by and, in minutes, say, ‘Oh, this is RIT,'” says RIT President David C. Munson Jr. “There’s no other university…
