I am an Assistant Professor of Digital Media in the School of Literature, Communication and Culture at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia. I am also affiliated with the GVU. I earned a PhD in Design from Carnegie Mellon University in 2006 and was a post-doctoral fellow at The Center for the Arts in Society and The Studio for Creative Inquiry (also at Carnegie Mellon) from 2006-2007.

My work is rooted in the humanities and arts and might best be characterized as a kind of design inquiry. I am particularly interested in understanding and describing the social and political uses of technology in cities. As part of this research I design technology platforms and participatory programs that engage and enable urban communities. Much of my current work in this area is funded by the National Science Foundation and Intel Research.

I am also deeply committed to the development of design theory and criticism. I am currently working on projects that examine information design as a social practice and the role of design in the construction of publics.

In addition to my academic pursuits I have extensive professional design experience, most notably working at MetaDesign (2000-2001) and as a consultant to the Walker Arts Center's New Media Initiative (1997-2000). In 2006 I co-founded DeepLocal, a design and software company specializing in interactive mapping and location-based services.