Behind Kent State University’s 45 million dollar Design Innovation Hub

J.R. Campbell, the former director of the Fashion School at Kent State University, which is rated number four in the country within a university which is recognized as an Ohio Center of Excellence, has a new project. If you build it they will come, goes the adage, and in this spirit a 44.5 million dollar renovation project of a 68,000 sq ft space has begun on campus to create the school’s new Design Innovation Hub. Campbell who spearheaded the creation of the Fashion School’s TechStyleLab in 2009, and the successful Fashion/Tech Hackathon over the past six years, sits down with FashionUnited to discuss his latest challenge.