Digital+Media: Environmental Justice Research Cluster at the Rhode Island School of Design

Lead by Sara Wylie, RISD Digital+Media and Graphic Design Students Jae Ok Lee, Byeongwon Ha, Kyuha Shim and Mara Streberger, James Schaffroth, Yuyu Chen,are developing a Roomba indoor air pollution hunting robot, a hydrogen sulfide screening tool and home-testing kit for environmental estrogens. We use lights on the Roomba to produce long-exposure image maps of rooms to identify sources of indoor air-pollution. The resulting photographs are beautiful and data rich examples can be seen here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/smartproof/5207305186/in/photostream/ Anyone from the Providence area is invited to join -- discussions happen on our mailing list here: https://groups.google.com/group/env-justice-risd We're meeting Tuesdays at 5pm at the Weybosset St. building for D+M -- if you're interested in working with us, please email the list above. ##Up Coming Events## End of January Roomba Hackathon! ##Projects## ##Media And Gallery Shows## "Public Lab Aims for Affordable Hydrogen Sulfide Sensors" [PBS MediaShift IdeaLab Blog](http://www.pbs.org/idealab/2011/10/public-lab-aims-for-affordable-hydrogen-sulfide-gas-sensors294.html)- Sara Wylie and Shannon Dosemagen, 10/25/11 Grist: [In the future, cleaning robots will sniff out air pollution](http://www.grist.org/list/2011-07-18-in-the-future-cleaning-robots-will-sniff-out-air-pollution)- Jess Zimmerman, 7-18-11 Technology Review: [Robot lights up at pollution](http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/38059/page1/#photo)- Kristina Grifantini, 7-17-11 [[http://publiclaboratory.org/notes/shannon/11-17-2011/roomba-air-quality-mapping-ethnographic-terminalia-exhibit-montreal|Public Lab show in Montreal featuring Roomba]] ##Meeting Notes## * [Tuesday March 29th meeting](/wiki/risd-march-29-meeting)