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Welcome
Welcome to the Public Design Workshop wiki. The Public Design Workshop is research group in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture at Georgia Tech.
The broad agenda of the Public Design Workshop is to investigate the existing and possible roles of technology and design in shaping and enabling public discourse and action.
We pursue this agenda through design inquiry and our investigations take multiple forms including theory and criticism, ethnographic research, writing and media, participatory design, workshops and events, program development, critical design projects and technology development.
Feel free to review and critique our work.
For more information contact Carl DiSalvo at carl.disalvo[at]lcc.gatech.edu
Current Projects
Neighborhood Networks
Neighborhood Networks is a research project that uses community arts and participatory design to provide opportunities for the creative exploration and application of emerging technologies. (2006 to present)
Through interviews, participant observation, generative workshops, and participatory design, the Neighborhood Networks project focuses on working with neighborhood groups that are organized for local representation and collective action. Our interest is how these neighborhood groups use or might use emerging technologies as a means to publicly address their concerns. We are specifically interested in the use of digital imaging systems, environmental sensors, robotics and the free/low-cost services that support the collective use of these technologies.
View the Neighborhood Networks project website
Themes
Public Art Archive
A collection of critical reviews, interviews, commentaries, essays, and digital media artifacts related to public art.
Technologies and Technical Resources
The Canary
A platform for participatory sensing and robotics prototyping
Project Studios
Eco-Visualization (W-08)
The goal of this project studio was to develop a toolkit for the sharing and visualization of environmental data, particularly in the context of participatory sensing. This project studio is part of the Neighborhood Networks project.
The Explorable Image (F-07)
The goal of this project studio was to examined the challenges and potentials of designing interfaces for interactive high-resolution panoramas, utilizing Gigapan as the core technology platform.
We focused our investigation and design by considering how interactive high-resolution panoramic images might be used to document, express and share the experiences of life in urban Atlanta. Multiple themes were proposed and explored, but it was the theme of transportation that emerged as most salient.
View the final project website.
Publications
- Beyond Public Comment: How Collaborative Filtering Can Improve Citizen Participation In Atlanta City Council Meetings - Will Riley's Masters Thesis (in progress)
People
- Carl DiSalvo - Director, Asst Prof, LCC, GA Tech
- Will Riley - Graduate Research Assistant (07-08)
- Jisun An - DM Graduate Student (Fall 07)
- Michael Arteaga - HCI Graduate Student (Fall 07)
- Joel Linderman - DM Graduate Student (Fall 07)
- Adam Rice - DM Graduate Student (Fall 07)
- Josh Teague - HCI Graduate Student (Fall 07)
- Liam Rattray - Undergraduate Tagalong
- Pam Griffith - HCI Graduate Student (Fall 07)
To Do
- Update Canary page
- Update EcoViz page
- Update Public Art Archive page
- Update NN page
- Add (participatory) sensing as a theme
- Add robotics as a theme
- Add mapping as a theme
