About CDI

The Center for Design Innovation is a multi-campus research center of the UNC system founded to generate knowledge across creative, disciplinary and institutional boundaries.

Its primary mission is "to foster and promote research and creative activity in the design and use of technological tools for innovation and advancement in the production, presentation, display, and study of innovative work in science, communications, and the performing, visual, and narrative arts."

Experiences at CDI create and stretch the capacities of technology and understanding. Current themes of investigation are: Design for Innovative Education, Design for Just and Sustainable Communities and Research at the Intersection of Art and Science.