Digital Writing Environments, Location, and Localization (DWELL) Lab
The DWELL Lab investigates how location-based media are changing the ways that writers and readers interact with place. DWELL is a collaborative initiative between the Departments of Professional & Public Writing and Natural Resources Science that focuses on innovative approaches to science communication. We provide funded experiential learning opportunities to graduate and undergraduate students through student grants and awards as well as through our funded community-engaged digital projects. Projects in the lab focus on the use of mobile, locative, and wearable technologies for community-engaged science communication, social justice, and environmental advocacy.
DWELL works at the nexus of science and technical/professional writing, rhetorical field methods, and digital production to create high-impact experiential learning initiatives in support of public interests and local communities. Through a foundation in the study of rhetoric, we combine spatial theories, user-localization, and place-based methods with emerging technologies to build platforms that foster equitable knowledge-production within local communities.
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North Woods Write Out 2025! (Oct. 16-17) - Write Out: Awaken the Senses The North Woods and the Medicinal Gardens of URI’s Kingston Campus* October 16 and 17** 8:00 am-5:00 pm * The North Woods is not ADA/wheelchair accessible. Self-guided, accessible activities are available at the URI Medicinal Gardens. ** Rain dates October 20 and 21 About Write Out Since 2017, the Department […]
DWELL/STEEP Collab PFAS Kitchen Wins Environmental Communications Grand Prize Award - Designed to educate the public about ubiquitous and harmful per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), the collaborative project between URI’s Digital Writing Environments Location and Localization Lab (DWELL) and the Sources, Transportation, Exposure, and Effects of PFAS (STEEP) team, PFAS Kitchen, has won the Environmental Communication Award Grand Prize presented by the American Academy of Environmental […]