Star Tribune Highlight's MCAD's Path Forward

MCAD has been featured in the Star Tribune for launching a master plan with architecture firm MASS Design Group.

This plan includes a Campus of the Future (including an expanded student body), a Culture of Empathy and Inclusion, Innovative Curricula, and a Collaborative Community.

Joseph Kunkel, director of MASS's Sustainable Native Communities Design Lab in Santa Fe, New Mexico, is the lead on the new master plan design. Kunkel's research has helped create best practices within Indian Country, including affordable tribal housing developments. In 2019, he won an Obama Fellowship for his work with Indigenous communities.

MCAD and MASS are working under the concept of "liberatory design," an approach that addresses equity challenges and works to change complex systems. They aim to build a framework that brings together experimental landscapes, transformational environments, interconnectivity, a campus of well-being, and radical accessibility.

Learn More

• "Minneapolis College of Art & Design launches itself toward a 'campus of the future'"
  (startribune.com—March 17, 2022)
• MCAD's Path Forward