Humanities Media Lab

The third floor of the Sobeys Inspiration Hub includes a flexible workspace designed for students in the Faculty of Arts. The Humanities Media Lab (SH 323) inspires creative work, including audio and video production, web development, songwriting, spoken-word and performance projects, oral history documentation, digital archiving, acoustic analysis, bookmaking, and much more.

This multimedia facility offers:

• ergonomic seating for up to 20 people
• a dozen computer stations with speakers and headphones
• moveable modular tables for group projects
• a wall-mounted screen for viewings and presentations
• a Whisper Room sound/mixing studio
• lockable storage cabinets for equipment and projects in progress.

The Humanities Media Lab can be adapted for a variety of teaching, research, group work and community outreach projects. Equipment also includes audio and video recording and editing equipment and software, specialized lighting, bookbinding gear and a full-colour laser printer and archival scanner.

For more information, refer to the User Manual: Humanities Media Lab .

Please note that faculty/classroom requests are the lab’s priority. Faculty members can also request bookings for student projects, but the faculty member is responsible for the space.   

For lab and equipment bookings and all other inquiries, contact humanitiesmedia@smu.ca.