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

Collaboratively lead by Sara Wylie and Jeff Warren, RISD Digital+Media and Graphic Design Students Jae Ok Lee, Byeongwon Ha, Kyuha Shim and Colin Frazer are developing a Roomba indoor air pollution hunting robot. 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 10am at the Weybosset St. building for D+M -- if you're interested in working with us, please email the list above.

We are also working on the spectrography tools with a particular interest in using them to help communities living amidst natural gas extraction visualize air pollution from volatile organic chemicals.