A new innovation hub dubbed the Creative CoLab has opened in Brandon, giving everyone from creators learning their craft to established entrepreneurs a place to build, experiment and grow, its co-ordinator says.
Assiniboine College’s Creative CoLab blends the experience of a makerspace, where people work on artistic projects, with the flexibility of a co-working space, bringing tools, technology and community together under one roof, the lab’s co-ordinator Derek Ford said.
Drew Miles, a digital art and design student at Assiniboine College, has been playing his guitar for 25 years. Typically, he’s strumming guitar at his church, or blasting metal riffs in the basement.
Now he’s spending a lot of time in the CoLab, located at the Victoria Avenue East campus, each week playing with different technologies. He says the hands-on learning is letting him tailor his instruments to…
