Current Projects

Blue Devil Herbarium

August 16, 2024August 20, 2024
Objects, Projects

The Duke Herbarium is slated to be rehomed at another institution in a couple of years. This decision has raised questions both at Duke and… Read More »Blue Devil Herbarium

Sketch of the road leading up to Duke Chapel with written annotations describing the landscape along the road.

World Building at Duke in an Emerging Durham: 1924-1932

May 26, 2023February 8, 2024
Scale, Spaces & Systems

This project is part of the 2023-2024 Bass Connections Duke’s Centennial popup theme. The establishment of the Duke Endowment in 1924 enabled the massive building… Read More »World Building at Duke in an Emerging Durham: 1924-1932

Hypothetical floor plan for a setting in The Case of Charles Dexter Ward. Image credit: Victoria Szabo & Cosimo Monteleone

Visualizing Lovecraft’s Providence

February 16, 2021March 9, 2021
Spaces & Systems

This project explores the use of historical and cultural visualization techniques to instantiate the imagined Providence, Rhode Island of author H.P. Lovecraft. H.P. Lovecraft famously… Read More »Visualizing Lovecraft’s Providence

Digitally annotated medieval city view. Image credit: Edward Triplett

Sandcastle

February 16, 2021October 15, 2021
Scale, Spaces & Systems

The primary goal of the Sandcastle project is to enable researchers to visualize non-Cartesian, premodern images of places in a comparative environment that resembles the… Read More »Sandcastle

Modeling Agency

February 16, 2021January 25, 2024
Spaces & Systems

Agent Based Modeling (ABM) serves to computationally model populations within the built environment. Agents are placed within 3D spatial simulations and navigate the modeled space… Read More »Modeling Agency

3D model of the Nazi architectural plan for Krakow. Model created by Davide Contiero

Mapping Occupied Krakow

February 16, 2021November 20, 2025
Objects, Spaces & Systems

As is well known, Krakow became a key location within the National Socialist plan for military expansion and the implementation of genocide in Eastern Europe… Read More »Mapping Occupied Krakow

Duke/Durham Ghosts

February 16, 2021August 30, 2023
Spaces & Systems

Duke/Durham Ghosts explores the presence of the local past through augmented reality and web-based application design. This project is a partnership between Duke Wired and… Read More »Duke/Durham Ghosts

Viewpoint analysis showing the relationship between the de'Barbari View's perspectival orientation and Venice's layout. Image Credit: Augustus Wendell

Deconstructing Urban Visions

February 16, 2021August 30, 2023
Objects, Spaces & Systems

This project focuses on extracting quantitative data from the de’ Barbari View of Venice. Through the development of an open source computational toolkit the map… Read More »Deconstructing Urban Visions

Images in clockwise order of a book, circular arrows, puzzle piece, and two humans. Image Credit: Hannah L. Jacobs

Visualizing Objects, Places, and Spaces

February 16, 2021October 29, 2021
Objects, Scale, Spaces & Systems

Beth Fischer (Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Humanities at the Williams College Museum of Art) and Hannah L. Jacobs (Digital Humanities Specialist, Wired! Lab, Duke… Read More »Visualizing Objects, Places, and Spaces

Map showing Nazi labor camps categorized by type of labor. Image Credit: Antonio LoPiano.

Mapping German Construction

February 16, 2021August 30, 2023
Scale, Spaces & Systems

Few eras in Art History are as famous for their buildings as Weimar Germany (1918-1933) and none is more notorious than the Nazi period (1933-1945).… Read More »Mapping German Construction