Innovation Grants
Creative Campus Innovation Grant Program
The Curb Center at Vanderbilt is pleased to offer its signature Creative Campus Innovation Grant Program, which provides Vanderbilt faculty, staff, and students the opportunity to produce original ideas and harness their creativity as a force for positive social change.
More specifically, our innovation grants fund pilots and projects that—
- support course and curricular innovations, especially those that integrate media, design, creative problem solving and expression with rigorous disciplinary training;
- encourage people to challenge assumptions through serendipitous, out-of-the-ordinary encounters and experiences;
- provoke conversations that bring together unexpected parties and inspire novel approaches to engaging ideas, debates, and problems;
- illuminate extraordinary and everyday creative lives, highlighting the common creative process that threads through artistic, scientific, engineering, entrepreneurial, and design work;
- foster creative problem solving and the capacity of faculty, staff, and students to imagine ideas and lead others in making innovations a reality; and
- create a community of catalysts—faculty, staff, students, and Nashville community members who thrive on making the non-routine happen in their classrooms, research, and work.
2013-2014 Creative Campus Innovation Grantees
The following were chosen from proposals received from faculty, staff, and students, representing nearly all of the colleges and schools at Vanderbilt.
Immigration Deliberations
Shannon Daniel
Read more about the conversation here
Building Bridges: Vanderbilt TV Series
Ben Gutierrez
http://www.vanderbilt.edu/curbcenter/?news=a-call-for-participants-for-the-building-bridges-innovation-grant-project
First episode available here!
VORTEX, Fantastic Creatures, and Tales
Mike Holland
Boom Box Bike Intervention
Mark Hosford
Read more about the project and how to participate.
Point/Line: An Interactive Installation
Depeng Jin
How to Build a Forest
Leah Lowe
Play
Stair Steps
Adrienne Outlaw
21st Century Memory & Longing
Lorri Anne Parker-Danley
http://www.vanderbilt.edu/curbcenter/?news=a-call-for-images-for-innovation-grant-project
click here to see Lori Anne’s current project: The Identity Sculptures Project
Modernist Visions of Progress
Vesna Pavlovic
The Kefi Project
Kion Sawney
Design Day
Ben Shapiro
Pinpoint
David Weintraub
Past Innovation Grantees
2011-2012