CDRI
The Collaborative for DAAP Research and Innovation (CDRI) is a HUB for faculty, students, and industry partners to do research and innovation in the capacity areas of health and wellbeing, creative entrepreneurship, urban systems, digital culture, and sustainable living.
The center explores the intersections of human activity, invention, research, and innovation, integrating technology, human factors, and aesthetics through the lens of Design, Architecture, Interior Design, Art, and Planning. Key trends in these fields will be researched, including public health, affordable housing, climate change, resiliency, the future of work, decolonization, human rights, technology, and society, among others.
The center’s group of scholars aim to bring about research and innovation catalyzed in the creative discipline’s expertise to position CDRI as the epic center for collaborative creativity and societal transformative outcomes.
We are hoping to engage with you in a variety of ways including funding students and faculty doing research.
Did you know that with your support:
- $1,000 will fund a day at CDRI to to get trained with a research software
- $3,000 will fund a Graduate Student as a Graduate Assistant (GA) participating in research for one semester
- $5,000 will fund a faculty with materials and supplies to develop a breakthrough idea
- $5,000 will fund a day at CDRI to unleash creativity for your project
- $25,000 will fund a 5 weeks project through CDRI with your company
Click the button "Engage with CDRI" below to learn more.
CDRI Goals
The center is built around three main pillars:
- Collaboration: Partner with other disciplines across the college, institutions, and external organizations to explore problems, opportunities, innovative research and development, plus identify new themes and educational endeavors in health and wellbeing.
- Research: Conduct research and projects with unique user-centered and community-based methods for advancing new knowledge and impact in issues of health and wellbeing.
- Innovation: Exercise translational and evidence-based approaches with unique products, services, systems, and experiences developed at the center to serve the human condition, and societal and cultural issues around health and wellbeing.
CDRI Resources
The University of Cincinnati offers a number of research resources with their facilities. The center also provides the following specific resources for affiliated members:
- Co-creative spaces
- Technologies for behavioral research
- Grant writing services
- Digital labs support
Capacity Areas
