Digital Ecologies at the Arnold Arboretum!

We’re getting the word out on unique design and research opportunities available this summer and into the coming year for our budding collaboration with the Arnold Arboretum. Conceptually situated at the intersection of nature and networks, landscape and media design, and science and aesthetics, Digital Ecologies weaves together the teaching of an experimental, project-based seminar with the development of an open-source living collections toolkit known as Trellis. Through hands-on experiment and critical reflection we are asking what visitor experiences become possible when we integrate information and media ecologies into a living landscape teeming with natural and human histories. We would love to hear from designers, developers and researchers from both within Harvard and beyond with thoughts on how their own work can intersect with Digital Ecologies. Opportunities extend from paid design and research work this summer into development work in the fall, as well as participation in the spring seminar. Please email Kyle Parry at kyle [at] metalab.harvard.edu. We look forward to hearing from you!