The Action Lab, photographed by JCJ Architecture

Finished in 2017 by JCJ Architecture, The Liberal Arts Action Lab is located at 10 Constitution Plaza in Hartford's business district. Students utilizing the Action Lab work to build research projects in collaboration with their peers, Trinity faculty, and local community groups and organizations. The goal of the building and program is to better integrate Trinity into Hartford, as well as to address local issues through a liberal arts approach.

The lab takes students from both Trinity and Capital Community College, which is located on Main Street in Hartford. They take two courses at the lab, one dedicated to research methods and the other is when they carry out their own research projects. The projects are done in groups, and contain a mix of students from both schools. Students are encouraged to use the bus shuttle in order to get to and from the lab.

The teams are required to submit a proposal in the form of a question pertaining to the research they want to carry out. Past projects/proposals have included Frog Hollow Story Telling, Black Heritage, School Nutrition, and COVID-19 & Community Health Perspectives. Hartford painters have included Southside Institutions Neighborhood Alliance (SINA), Hartford Heritage Project, Grow Hartford Youth, and Hispanic Health Council.

The Action Lab is also Trinity's first building expansion into downtown Hartford since the colleges founding. This, combined with the goals of the lab, hope to place Trinity both “physically and intellectually” in the Hartford community.

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