We are creating an environment where students and faculty can dream and then act on their dreams.
			-Paul Boylan, Dean, School of Music

Because scholars can join activities without moving from their offices, the Media Union will act as a catalyst, building connections across our entire campus.
			-Edie Goldenberg, Dean, College of Literature, 
			    Science and the Arts



Our new Media Union merges the creative aspects of disciplines across the entire campus, ranging from art, psychology, and architecture, to engineering, philosophy and biology.  Inventive scholars will come together with powerful resources, entering a free-wheeling space where both ordinary and extraordinary people can do exceptional things.  Michigan's portal to the rest of the world, the Union will reach out to the huge storehouses of information growing daily on the "Web," while drawing national and international scholars and students into our campus conversations.  New information technology will create a "virtual" community of thinkers, allowing face-to-face dialogue and collaboration across thousands of miles.

The Media Union will house:

			¥ the electronic library of the future
			¥ interactive multi-media classrooms
			¥ a virtual reality laboratory
			¥ theater and performance spaces 
			¥ design and innovation studios

In each area, however, instead of defining rooms that restrict possibilities, we have worked to create spaces that invite the unexpected.  We have designed, as much as possible, for flexibility.  In fact, the most revolutionary part of the Media Union project is that we can't know exactly what will happen there until creative people take up residence.

Unlike other buildings on campus, the Union is not owned by any single department or school.  It is a truly neutral meeting place, open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week to the entire University community.  And, as