Forever: Poets on PFAS, Plastic, and Persistent Pollution A call for poetry submissions In our everyday lives, we encounter many different kinds of toxic chemicals, from the mercury found in tuna to radon gas seeping into basements through cracks in foundations to benzene exposure from vehicle exhaust, cigarette smoke, and gasoline fumes. Lead from old […]

Yvonne Wingard, a DWELL Affiliate and recent graduate of Master of Environmental Science & Management (MESM), has created a site-specific audio tour of the Youngken Medicinal Garden to cultivate care for six important medicinal plants. This immersive work brings Indigenous knowledge and experience of medicinal plants to the forefront through an audiovisual tour accessible via […]

Augmenting the North Woods is a DWELL Lab project that aims to create an immersive multimedia “classroom in the forest” experience for the North Woods—a 300-acre parcel of unmanaged forests and wetlands just north of URI’s campus. Taking the form of an open access digital resource, the project will combine augmented reality (AR), web development, and digital […]

Butts, Shannon and Jones, Madison. “Deep Mapping for Environmental Communication Design.” Communication Design Quarterly, Online First (January 20, 2021), https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3437000.3437001