Studio Reassembled

Serving as the gateway to the University of Michigan’s vast library system, which holds over 11 million volumes and an extensive architecture archive, our college librarian, Rebecca Price, curates resources specifically for Studio Reassembled. By reviewing faculty syllabi, Price selects key texts for a shared studio bibliography, ensuring that students have direct access to a thoughtfully assembled foundation of design research. Additionally, she is available on site for several hours each week to meet with students and faculty to support their research.

The Taubman Visualization Lab (TVLab) is a flexible, collaborative space equipped with a broad range of Extended Reality (XR) technologies, including augmented and virtual reality, 3D scanning and spatial mapping equipment, computational devices, and more.

Studio Reassembled participants have access to the following TVLab equipment:

• XR-Ready PCs
• VR Headsets
• 3D Printing w/ Free White PLA+ Filament
• iPad Pros w/ Apple Pencil Pros
• Plug-and-Play Computer Monitors
• Photography Studio
  • Green Screen Room
  • Photo Backdrops
  • Lighting Equipment
  • DSLR Camera

Climate Futures amplifies architectural, design, and planning contributions to mutual flourishing in the built environment by providing climate focused learning, resources, and visibility in direct proximity to Studio Reassembled.

Located immediately adjacent to the Studio Reassembled floor, Climate Futures offers students and faculty an optional layer of support that connects studio work to climate related coursework, workshops, consultants, and research resources. Students working in Studio Reassembled can draw on Climate Futures to deepen the environmental, social, and technical dimensions of their projects without interrupting the flow of studio practice.

By sitting alongside this shared, interdisciplinary studio environment, Climate Futures helps surface and connect climate focused ideas emerging across studios, making it easier for students to engage questions of resilience, equity, and environmental performance as part of their everyday design work. Together, Climate Futures and Studio Reassembled create a porous learning ecosystem where climate literacy and design experimentation reinforce one another.

Located adjacent to the Studio Reassembled space, Public Design Corps brings students, faculty, and partners into design processes rooted in equity and reciprocity. The work expands design’s civic and cultural impact, applies spatial intelligence to public questions, and exercises engagement as a form of critical inquiry through research, policy, and reflective practice. Students can draw upon tools, workshops, mentors, and peers across disciplines to move ideas into modes of public communication and action.

As primary stewards of Studio Reassembled, student representatives guide peers in making the most of the space. They handle everything from day-to-day organization to special events, and are the first point of contact for faculty and students, should issues arise.