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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DWELL Congratulates Student SciComm Award Winners! - DWELL Congratulates Student Science Communication Award Winnersby Fran Webber Three outstanding URI students are the deserving recipients of this year’s Digital Writing Environments, Location, and Localization (DWELL) Lab awards for science communication. For three years, DWELL—in partnership with the departments of Natural Resources Science (NRS) and Professional & Public Writing (WRT)—has offered funding for graduate […]
Call for PhD/MA/MS Applicants: DWELL Research Assistantship - Augmented Reality & Participatory Design for Climate Resilience [Download the Document Version Here] Dr. Madison Jones is recruiting a PhD or MA/MS student to serve as a Research Assistant starting in Fall 2025 in the DWELL Lab at the University of Rhode Island. The candidate may be currently enrolled in a program at URI or […]