When you walk into the Greenhouse Studios space, you are greeted by a giant hand-painted mural of our design process model. As your eyes follow the flexible path and big colorful circles which represent the phases of our process, you are transported to a world of inquiry, collaboration, innovation, and creativity. River Soma, one of […]

Enter Greenhouse Studios and you’ll almost always spot Design Technologist Tom Lee diligently at work in the corner project room. Step up to its glass wall and inside you’ll see architectural blueprints, virtual reality (VR) equipment, and Tom, who’s often wearing a pair of VR goggles and staring into space.  He’s not just day dreaming, […]

The Workshop On the evening of November 9th, I gathered in the Ballard Institute of Puppetry theater to watch four short films produced by students with old-fashioned 16-mm cameras. The films were made in a workshop conducted by Cuban artist Juan Carlos Alom, a filmmaker and photographer whose work has been exhibited throughout the world, […]

Greenhouse Studios members are actively involved in the larger issues facing scholarly communications outside of our research. On the brisk morning of October 26th, I gathered with several other presenters mostly representing UConn at the Hartford Public Library to showcase projects that benefit from—or contribute to making available—openly and freely accessible data. This event, Open […]