Greenhouse Studios creates space for curious minds. Grounded in the humanities, we use art and technology to expand the boundaries of scholarship and learning. Whether making new things or facilitating new perspectives, equitable collaboration is at the core of what we do.
As an interdisciplinary research unit, the Greenhouse Studios team comprises a wide variety of scholars, designers, developers, library professionals, editors, and more. We are a joint effort of the University of Connecticut’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Library, and School of Fine Arts; our team members come from both within and beyond the university.
As a scholarly research lab, we have created a unique workspace—a scholarly communications design studio—which establishes a “collaboration first” approach that brings a diverse team of people together to create original works of research. We are dedicated to addressing the persistent, intertwined problems of workflow and hierarchy with a mission that equally values all stakeholders involved in producing scholarship. Everyone has a seat at the table and a voice in the conversation.
Our Design Process
Our design process is integral to every project we make. A team of collaborators responds to an inquiry-focused prompt and undertakes a five-phase design-thinking process over the course of two years. The understand, identify, build, review, and disseminate stages each result in a stepping stone (e.g., a project brief, media manuscript) that will lead to the next phase of the design process. Though the process will ultimately lead to a publication, the process is meant to be highly iterative and cyclical, and the “product” of the process is intentionally left completely open-ended from the start. Read more about our design process.
