KNOWLEDGE DESIGN LAB

Our projects are grounded in diverse fields from literary criticism to climate science. We create analog and digital prototypes whose design (process, media, formats, and modalities) elicits ways of knowing that expand or challenge disciplinary and cultural traditions and industry norms. Through the creation of innovative demonstration projects and applied case studies, researchers in the lab aim to influence the next generation of technology development to foster interpretation, interrogate data, structure arguments, and generate new ways of seeing. We also produce new design research methods, theory, and pedagogy... Knowledge Design is a specialized design practice that considers the epistemic effects of materiality, media, format, and form. It is concerned with how cultural categories such as knowledge, evidence, documents, vouchers, and other categories that define what is knowable and true, are design-dependent... Knowledge Design integrates design theory with the digital..