Laura Kurgan
She is the author of Close Up at a Distance: Mapping, Technology, and Politics (Zone Books, 2013). Her work explores the ethics and politics of digital mapping and its technologies; the art, science and visualization of big and small data; and design environments for public engagement with maps and data. From 2004 - 2015, she founded and directed the Spatial Information Design Lab at GSAPP. The SIDL "Million Dollar Blocks" project is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, and her work has also been shown at Palais De Tokyo and the Fondation Cartier in Paris, MACBa in Barcelona and the ZKM in Karlsruhe. In 2009, Kurgan was awarded a United States Artists Rockefeller Fellowship.
Adeline Chum
In her current work, she is interested in exploring the ways in which data and its representation shapes our understanding of land use productivity and is critical of the relationship between forest land, wildlife reserves, sites of extraction and infrastructure. She received her MArch from Columbia, GSAPP, where she has received the GSAPP Visualization Award, William Kinne Fellows Travelling Prize and the 'Avery 6' Award.
Dan Miller
His work predominantly explores methodologies, collaborative processes, and tools that engage or activate data and media toward spatial justice. Prior to joining the CSR, Dan managed human rights and spatial analysis casework at Brooklyn-based architectural practice SITU as well as access to and visualization of historical US Census data at Social Explorer. He has contributed to work exhibited at the Storefront for Art and Architecture, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and the Yale University Art Gallery, and he has taught methods in environmental and urban sociology at Queens College CUNY.
Zoe Lin
With an M.S. in Computational Design Practices from Columbia GSAPP, where she received the Honour Award for Outstanding Capstone, she brings an interdisciplinary perspective, rooted in Cognitive Science, to her research. Before joining the CSR, Zoe was a Research Fellow for the Digital Life Initiative at Cornell Tech, working on the design and development of Reward Reports, a new AI Documentation framework, and served as a Data Analyst Fellow at the Downtown Alliance.
Didier Lucceus
Hongqian Li
Taha Erdem Ozturk
Virginia Zangs
With a background in architecture and research, Virginia intends to critically navigate and expand upon the intersections of Architecture and Technology; as a method, concept, and practice - as an active multi-scalar model, a growing metabolism, of designing, shaping, and rendering notions of space, time, & ideology.
She is particularly interested in how Computational Design can be used to create new models and strategies to address the pressing challenges resulting of our world constituted of many complex interdependent adaptive systems, based on the intricate co-evolutionary relationship of societies, environments, politics, and technologies. As she confronts the intricacies of the past, negotiates the present, and anticipates the future, Virginia is interested in exploring new forms of computational design and architecture. These forms promote self-adaptive complex systems, new collaborative models and embrace interspecies design. Virginia’s aspiration is to expand the architecture discipline, for a viable society and planetarity.
Over the past year, Virginia has worked in Berkeley and Berlin, diving into AI research, emergent technologies, speculative design and architecture. Her diverse career includes collaborations with design studios and institutions like Strelka Insitute, WAA - Wiel Arets Architects, Herzog & de Meuron, OMA AMO, MoMA and the Architekturmuseum TUM. She holds a Masters in Architecture focusing on Cultural Heritage History and Criticism and a BA in Architecture from the Technical University Munich.
Wei Xiao
Will Cao
He has previously contributed to data-based research and visualization on the topics of segregation, commutes, and paramilitary conflict at CSR and the Urban Planning Department at GSAPP. He will graduate with an MArch and M.S. Urban Planning from Columbia GSAPP in 2024.
Steering Committee
Name | Title | Affiliation |
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Mark Wigley | Professor of Architecture, Planning and Preservation | Architecture, Columbia University |
Anupama Rao | Associate Professor | History, Barnard College |
Manan Ahmed | Associate Professor | History, Columbia University |
Avinoam Shalem | Riggio Professor of the History of the Arts of Islam | Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University |
Marguerite Holloway | Associate Professor of Professional Practice and Director | Science and Environmental Journalism, Columbia Journalism School |
Claudio Lomnitz | Campbell Family Professor of Anthropology | Anthropology, Columbia University |
Timothy Mitchell | William B Ransford Professor of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies | Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies, Columbia University |
Sharon Marcus | CSR Co-Principal Investigator, Dean of Humanities, Orlando Harriman Professor | English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University |
Laura Kurgan | Director of Master's in Science in Compurataion Design Practices and Center for Spatial Research, PI Mellon Architecture, Urbanism and the Humanities Initiative, and Professsor | Architecture, Columbia University |
Frances Negrón-Muntaner | Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Co-PI Mellon Architecture, Urbanism and the Humanities Initiative, 2018-present | Department of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University |
Farah Jasmine Griffin | Chair and William B. Ransford Professor | Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies, Department of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University |
Past Researchers
Name | Title | Dates Sort ascending |
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Lucia Rebolino | Graduate Research Assistant | - |
Guangyu Wu | Associate Research Scholar | - |
Andrea Molina | Graduate Research Assistant | - |
Juan Moreno | Mellon Associate Research Scholar | - |
Maria Doku | Graduate Research Assistant | - |
Camille Esquivel | Graduate Research Assisant | - |
Nelson De Jesus Ubri | Graduate Research Assisant | - |
Adam Vosburgh | Graduate Teaching Assistant | - |
Spenser A. Krut | Graduate Research Assisant | - |
Nadine Fattaleh | Graduate Research Assisant | - |
Brian House | Mellon Associate Research Scholar | - |
Jia Zhang | Mellon Associate Research Scholar | - |
Glória Serra Coch | Graduate Research Assistant | - |
Wright Kennedy | Associate Research Scholar | - |
Laura Lee | Graduate Research Assistant | - |
Nikhil Jain | Research Assistant | - |
Eric Pietraszkiewicz | Graduate Research Assistant | - |
Carsten Rodin | Graduate Research Assistant | - |
Tola Oniyangi | Graduate Research Assistant | - |
Jeevan Farias | Research Assistant | - |
Violet Whitney | Graduate Research Assistant | - |
Stella Ioannidou | Graduate Research Assistant | - |
Dare Brawley | Associate Director | - |
Patrick Li | Graduate Research Assistant | - |
Michelle McSweeney | Mellon Associate Research Scholar | - |
Michael James Storm | Graduate Research Assistant | - |
Mike Howard | Graduate Research Assistant | - |
Grga Basic | Associate Research Scholar | - |
Jochen Hartmann | Data & Design | - |
Madeeha Merchant | Research Associate | - |
Juan Francisco Saldarriaga | Research Associate | - |
Mondrian Hsieh | Graduate Research Assistant | - |
Dan Taeyoung | Research Associate | - |
Annelie Berner | Research Associate | - |
Jen Lowe | Research Associate | - |
Noa Younse | Graduate Research Assistant | - |
Derek Watkins | Research Associate | - |
Pippa Brashear | Graduate Research Assistant | - |
Tiffany Rattray | Graduate Research Assistant | - |
Caspar Lam | Research Associate | - |
Greta Byrum | Teaching Assistant | - |
Danielle Berger | Graduate Research Assistant | - |
Jenna Miller | Graduate Research Assistant | - |
Therese Diede | Graduate Research Assistant | - |
Caitlin Fitzpatrick | Graduate Research Assistant | - |
Francis Tan | Graduate Research Assistant | - |
Ruthie King | Graduate Research Assistant | - |
Laura Jay | Graduate Research Assistant | - |
Fatima Abdul-Nabi | Graduate Research Assistant | - |
Jorge Ubaldo Colin Pescina | Graduate Research Assistant | - |
Georgia Bullen | Research Associate | - |
Kyu-won Lee | Graduate Research Assistant | - |
Robert Gerard Pietrusko | Research Associate | - |
Stewart Smith | Research Associate | - |
Laura Poulsen | Graduate Research Assistant | - |
Candy Chang | Graduate Research Assistant | - |
Deborah Grossberg Katz | Research Associate | - |
Brian Brush | Graduate Research Assistant | - |
Minna Ninova | Graduate Research Assistant | - |
Aja Maria Hazelhof | Graduate Research Assistant | - |
Chris Simi | Graduate Research Assistant | - |
Gitanjali Dadlani | Graduate Research Assistant | - |
Nick Klein | Research Associate | - |
Sarah Williams | Co-Director 2007-2012 | - |
Paul J. Berg | Graduate Research Assistant | - |
Johnna Cressica Brazier | Graduate Research Assistant | - |
Serena Deng | Graduate Research Assistant | - |
David Reinfurt | Graphic Designer | - |
Tse-Hui Teh | Graduate Research Assistant | - |
Li-Chi Wang | Graduate Research Assistant | - |
Eric Cadora | Consultant | - |
Leah Meisterlin | GIS Teaching Assistant, Graduate Research Assistant | - |