Last month, Kinsmen Brewing Company in Southington held an event to launch BrewConn, a new, student-designed IPA. The night also saw the official launch of UConn Brewing Innovation, a new initiative that seeks to provide unique educational opportunities around the science and business of brewing, while also collaborating with and supporting Connecticut’s growing craft brew […]
Research
Welcome to The Treehouse
A 3D model produced by Christian Romero (MFA ’25) illustrates the metaphor of Greenhouse Studios students nurturing a project. The Treehouse is the name that we’ve recently coined for our “think tank” of stunningly talented student researchers at Greenhouse Studios. Comprised of graduate & undergraduate employees who hail from a wide range of diverse backgrounds, […]
Greenhouse Studios Design Process
Greenhouse Studios is forging a new model of inquiry-driven, collaboration-first scholarly production. The Greenhouse Studios design process begins with a team of people and an inquiry-focused prompt posed externally by Greenhouse Studios. It is the externality of the prompt that puts people and collaboration at the center of the Greenhouse Studios process, rather than the […]
Greenhouse Studios Explores the Space of Collaboration
Greenhouse Studios has always been concerned with fostering meaningful work using digital tools as a medium. However, the members of Greenhouse Studios, and the Digital Humanities movement as a whole, often rely on physical space to cultivate collaboration as well. While Greenhouse Studios has always used virtual spaces such as Google Docs and Slack in […]
Redesigning Scholarly Communications Workflows and Work Habits for the Digital Age: The Greenhouse Studios Proposal
We are pleased to present this recent scholarship, published by Greenhouse Studios team members Clarissa J. Ceglio, Tom Scheinfeldt, and Sara Sikes, from the January 2019 issue of the Journal of Scholarly Publishing (University of Toronto Press). Abstract Greenhouse Studios | Scholarly Communications Design at UConn is a shared venture of the School of Fine Arts, […]
Designers and Developers as Scholarly Collaborators
At the heart of the Greenhouse Studios design process is the concept of “collaboration from the start.” All too often collaborators are brought on board at a late stage merely to implement or put the finishing touches on scholarly projects, not to conceptualize them. This is particularly true with respect to designers and developers, whose […]
Collaboration and Emergent Knowledge at Greenhouse Studios
Since the 1970s, scholars in fields as varied as sedimentology, ornithology, sociology, and philosophy have come to understand the importance of self-organizing systems, of how higher-order complexity can “emerge” from independent lower-order elements. Emergence describes how millions of tiny mud cracks at the bottom of a dry lake bed form large scale geometries when viewed […]
Creativity and the Scholarly Record
At Greenhouse Studios, we are working out the process of creating new forms of scholarship. One important aspect of what differentiates scholarship from projects is sustainability. As I like to say, there is no scholarship without persistence. The infrastructure of persistence is well understood in traditional academic publishing, but is less understood in the world […]
The Understand Phase Explained
When people ask me about what we do at Greenhouse Studios, it is challenging to distill all of its ambitions into a easily digestible tidbit. Ultimately, we are attempting to change the way scholarship is produced. As a result, many of Greenhouse Studios’ features are responsive to the limitations of mainstream academic practice. In this […]
Greenhouse Studios’ First Projects Grapple with The Limits of Text
Greenhouse Studios, a new research unit at the University of Connecticut, is beginning implementation of a collaboration-first approach for the creation and communication of scholarship thanks to a $789,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This award is the first of its kind at UConn and part of the Mellon Foundation’s Scholarly Communications program, […]