A graduate design studio that develops responsive architecture for the NYC subway and addresses environmental health problems.

Sentient City explores the experience of living in a city that employs networked digital technologies to remember, correlate, and anticipate.

This course introduces basic concepts and techniques for creating objects, spaces and media that sense and respond to their physical surroundings.

An infrared urban screen for promoting dialogue and interaction between remote publics.

Zero Atmosphere Architecture discusses architecture, human computer interaction and Earth ecology discourse in the context of design for outer space.

A variable event structure designed to raise awareness of issues surrounding the wireless topography of urban environments.

Gravity Screens are part of a research project exploring computationally inspired and augmented materials for responsive architecture

A graduate research studio that explores the atmosphere of the freeway and proposes various responsive architecture that engage its ecology.

Propagative Urbanism is a way of thinking about shaping the architecture of urban space in terms of a bottom-up, participatory approach to the evolution of cities.

The Tactical Sound Garden [TSG] is an open source software platform for cultivating public “sound gardens” in contemporary cities.

Day For Night was a temporary architectural environment that operated on the street life of downtown San Jose, California [...]

An exhibition critically exploring the evolving relationship between ubiquitous computing, architecture and urban space.

A technic course that introduces students to parametric design and rapid prototyping technologies.

An exhibition of student and faculty research work in responsive materials.

Hyperculture is a design platform that operates on the dual role of the Earth as interface.

A responsive architecture that adapts to crowds by sensing the changing carbon dioxide in the air.

The Situated Technologies Pamphlets series explores the implications of ubiquitous computing for architecture and urbanism.

Investigating how natural and artificial atmospheric systems can serve as models for the design, analysis and interpretation of the architecture of urban environments.

The Sentient City Survival Kit is a design research project that explores the social, cultural and political implications of ubiquitous computing for urban environments.