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Research

The Center for Architecture and Situated Technologies (CAST) investigates the evolving relationship between emerging technologies and the built environment. Our project-based research addresses the material, social, cultural and political implications for architecture and urbanism of mobile and embedded computing, environmental sensing, responsive systems and advanced digital fabrication techniques.

Hedgework

Hedgework is an urban landscape intervention installed at the Brookyn Navy Yard in New York City that takes the form of a sentient hedgerow.

Hedgerow Hyllie

Hedgerow Hyllie is a site-specific landscape intervention created for Agrikultura, an international exhibition of public artworks, installations, meals, performances, urban interventions, and events outdoors in Malmo, Sweden.

Functionally Graded Textiles

This research intends to investigate the architectural and structural potential of helical auxetic yarns (HAY) as a component in new fiber reinforced composite materials and tensioned membranes.

Tactical Sound Garden [TSG]

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

False Positive

A mobile performance and workshop that enacts a surveillance conspiracy engaging the public in an intimate, techno-political conversation with the mobile technologies on which they depend.

Hertzian Rain

Hertzian Rain addresses the competition for signal dominance through a participatory scenario for real-time, asymmetrical communication between sound makers and sound listeners.