The Rick and Susan Sontag Center for Collaborative Creativity (aka the Hive) is a design center serving the students, staff and faculty of the Claremont Colleges.
We believe everyone has tremendous untapped creative potential, and it’s our job as designers, researchers, and educators to help develop creativity and confidence.
We believe collaborative and interdisciplinary experiences are necessary to develop better problem finders (and solvers) to address the world’s problems, and we believe the best way to apply this approach is in the liberal arts.
We play, experiment, fail, and learn from that failure; we are building our creative confidence.
A celebration of innovative and creative projects by our 7C community with the Hive! We'll show + sell, play, eat, tinker, and listen to our processes of joy and oops. […]
Dedicated to fostering entrepreneurship at the 5Cs, Pomona Ventures is hosting its annual pitch competition, Sage Tank! This event supports Claremont-founded, student-led startups by connecting them with like-minded peers, experienced […]
The Hive Five is an ongoing 5-part podcast. In the series, each episode represents one stage of the human-centered design process: empathize, define, ideate, prototype, test.
Shannon Randolph, Hive Director of Global Impact, shares stories and lessons from her experience designing the Hive's first participatory, community-based global design fellowship program in Vietnam.
Check out Pomona College's recent article featuring a Human-Centered Design alumni!
