COMPUTATIONAL CREATIVITY LAB

Working with the US Census Bureau, the Computational Creativity Lab was tasked with using Decennial Census Data to create tools that advance the Bureau's diversity, equity, and inclusion goals. Speaking with local librarians in Pittsburgh, PA, we learned that efforts to diversify library collections are often stalled by poor data collection. Librarians often have no way of evaluating how diverse their library's collections are, or where there might be underrepresented authors. To address this need, we built a participatory data collection system where participants are invited to answer a series of questions which evaluate a book along certain diversity criteria. The outcome is a visualization of the data that was collected to show all the diversity criteria... At CCL, We are informed by Computational Design Thinking in our approach to understanding complex systems and imagining preferred futures... The Computational Creativity Lab (2015-2022) within CMU's School of Design is a..

Also known as: CCL

Primary location: Pittsburgh United States