Project
Artreach
Designed and developed a platform for Milieux Institute that connects academic designers and artists to broader communities — increasing public engagement with university research.
2025
The Milieux Institute at Concordia University produces a significant volume of research-creation work — art, design, and technology projects by researchers and artists at the intersection of disciplines. This work was scattered across personal portfolios, institutional databases, and social media, making it difficult for external audiences to discover or engage with.
The institute needed a centralized platform that could showcase this work to the public while giving creators ownership over their own presence.
ArtReach is a curated web platform that connects Milieux's academic creators with broader communities. I built the platform with Next.js, MySQL, Prisma, S3 storage, Better-Auth and deployed it on Vercel. The platform features a self-serve artist portal where researchers and artists manage their own portfolio, personal details, and external links. And a curated showcase of research-creation projects with rich media documentation paired with institute-level editorial control for featuring and organizing content.
The platform bridged the gap between academic research-creation and public engagement, giving the institute a professional digital presence while making emerging interdisciplinary work accessible to galleries, curators, prospective students, and the broader public. Creators who previously had no centralized portfolio gained a managed, curated presence connected to an established research institution.
Explore the collection at artreach.milieux.ca.