The Situated Computation + Design Lab
The Situated Computation + Design Lab (Sit.Co.De) generates new knowledge and creative expressions through embodiment and computation, examining how we understand architecture and design through our bodies, contexts, and computation in craft, making, and heritage practices from the scale of artifacts to buildings. Through hands-on computational, ethnographic, architectural, and artistic inquiry, our interdisciplinary research develops along three interconnected lines:
(1) Ethnography and Computation in Crafts and Making Practices;
(2) Heritage, Computation, and New Technologies; and
(3) Critical Computational methods and frameworks for research, education, and practice.
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Our Lab fosters a culture of hands-on experimentation alongside theoretical investigations and critical inquiry to reveal relationships between making, knowledge, and computational systems. Research, teaching, and practice are all interconnected. If you would like to join the Lab, collaborate, or have any questions, contact Dr. Vernelle A. A. Noel.
Lab Mission:
- To generate new knowledge by investigating design and making practices.
- To learn by DOING (Hands-on).
- To foster good researchers, designers, critical thinkers, and global citizens.
- To train lab members to be good writers, thoughtful makers, and good teachers.