The Situated Computation + Design Lab
Vernelle A. A. Noel is an Assistant Professor of Computational Design and the Director of the Situated Computation + Design Lab at Carnegie Mellon University. The lab is dedicated to a culture of hands-on, embodied making and thinking through the examination and development of traditional craft, computational, and digital practices, interdisciplinary creativity, and their intersections with society. The lab is inter and multidisciplinary with students, faculty, industry, and community partners for collaborative research and projects for new reconfigurations of design practice, pedagogy, and publics.
Situated Computations is an approach to computational design that grounds technologies in the social world by acknowledging the historical, cultural, and material contexts of designing and making. It acknowledges and responds to a setting’s social and technological infrastructures, and refuses to remain ignorant of economic and political structures that shape it. Read more about Situated Computations here >>>