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 Affiliate Ellie Lin Presents Research on the North Woods Field Guide - The landscape of URI’s North Woods holds layered histories–evidence of Narragansett inhabitance, alongside the walls left by colonial settlers, a solar panel array built on a remediated Superfund site, and an intricate ecosystem of vernal pools, wetlands, and dense undergrowth. The North Woods is a testament to the ways humans relate to and shape their […]
DWELL Affiliate Yvonne Wingard Presents Research on Ecoliteracy - Yvonne Wingard, a recent graduate of Master of Environmental Science & Management, recently presented their research, The Human-Nature Connection: Ecoliteracy and Environmental Attitudes. The academic side to this work seeks to understand how personal connections to nature influence pro-environmental behavior, and Wingard simultaneously pursued a more personal project– a multisensory tour of the Heber W. […]