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General Student and Community Policy

  • ITP and IMA resources and spaces are only available to ITP/IMA/LowRes Students, ITP Campers (during Camp) and employees and and non-majors taking classes in our department
  • Please visit the Floor Hours Page for Operational Hours and holiday closures for the Floor, Shop and ER and for resource links to schedule time in the Design Lab, Coding Lab, Doc Lab and Hyper Lab
  • The main doors to the department at the Equipment Room are kept open during Hours of Operation only – they should be kept closed after 10pm and require departmental tap access to enter after 10pm
  • Access doors near the Design Lab and Kitchen should be kept closed at all times and require departmental tap access to enter
  • If you experience loss of tap access to the departmental doors, please reach out to Adrian Mandeville
  • Shop Studio tables must be cleared each night – opening staff will remove any materials or projects left on top of studio tables
  • Departmental students are permitted to continue working in common areas after Midnight on the 4th Floor, but are advised that if they leave the 4th Floor for any reason they will not be able to reenter the 4th Floor until 7:00AM
  • Only authorized personnel (Admin, Staff, Faculty) may request re-entry to the building between 12AM – 7AM
  • This open Floor policy risks being revised or restricted if the Floor is not left in a usable, organized condition each morning. This means that classrooms and common areas of the Floor should be free of trash and food, that scrap or remains of what you were working on are cleared and that the Shop tables are cleared of projects.

Guest Access

ITP, IMA and IMA LowRes make up our very large, shared community. It’s an open and inviting community and we support having visitors who are guests in a class, outside speakers, colleagues who are collaborating on a project with you, or family or friends coming for a tour. In order to ensure that resources are available to the community, it is important to remember that visitors are not granted carte blanche access to our space – we have specific guidelines and policies designed to safeguard the community and ensure visitor safety.

This updated policy reflects both NYU’s policy and procedures and ITP/IMA’s Departmental requirements.

Community members are responsible for the behavior of their guest(s) at all times. If a guest’s presence creates a disturbance or disruption, they may be asked to leave the premises by an authorized staff member. Failure to comply with this policy may result in disciplinary action against the community member who invited the guest.

Additionally, failure to follow these guidelines risks revocation of your visitor access privileges and could result in your own loss of access to departmental resources and tools.

Visitor Access must be arranged in advance using NYU’s JRNY System

The NYU JRNY Policy for Student and Summer Associate (Affiliate) Visitor Access:

  • “Check with the school or department administration for the buildings or activities to which you want your visitor to have access before completing this form. Additional School or building-specific visitor policies may apply.”
  • “If the activity takes place in an NYU building, student and summer associate sponsors must greet visitors at the entrance, escort them while inside the building, and ensure they exit the building at the end of their visit.”

Department Policy for ALL Visitors:

  • Visitors DO NOT have access to departmental resources like the Shop, ER, Design Lab, Coding Lab, Doc Lab, Hyper Lab or Media Commons
  • Equipment cannot be borrowed in your name and lent to a visitor
  • For liability reasons, visitors and guests cannot use tools from the Shop unless an arrangement has been made in advance with the Fabrication Manager or the Associate Director of Technical Operations
  • Visitors cannot use our space while unattended by their sponsor
  • JRNY passes should not be used for long term or repeated access to the department – the department is not a co-working space for visitors – this includes reserving classrooms, phone booths, huddle rooms or other departmental spaces for visitors to use unsupervised.