05/03/2022
Fast Company has named Shift Retail Lab at Virginia Commonwealth University as an honorable mention in the Urban Design category of the magazine’s 2022 World Changing Ideas Awards.
Shift Retail Lab, which is operated by the VCU da Vinci Center for Innovation and is located at 1235 W. Broad St., is a multifunctional retail space where VCU student innovators and entrepreneurs can showcase their work to gain insights and test their products, services and ideas with real-world customers.
"Collaboration across disciplines and between the university and the community is the future of higher education. Thanks to invaluable community partners like Mark Hourigan and Hourigan Construction, VCU is able to fulfill its mission as an innovative urban research university. This award is a win for VCU and the City of Richmond, VA region." said Garret Westlake, Ph.D., executive director of the da Vinci Center, a collaboration of schools at VCU including VCUarts, VCU School of Business, VCU College of Engineering, VCU College of Humanities and Sciences, and VCU Health.
Additional thanks to the VCU Brandcenter students that worked on our branding.
Read the full press release: https://tinyurl.com/2wbj529n
