Digital Infrastructure for "The North Woods Project"

Project Description As part of Phase II for the North Woods Project (NWP)—an ongoing digital project at URI which combines different perspectives on place, from art, writing, and humanities to the ecological and environmental sciences—we are seeking student contributions for digital media content that will be featured in the project. NWP consists of a website, a digital map, and an augmented reality walking tour in the North Woods on URI’s campus. A previous example of the project completed by one of the project PIs can be found on the EcoTour website. At each “point of interest” (or POI) along the tour, users will discover different types of digital content about the woods, from information about flora and fauna to histories of the woods ranging from its recent campus usage to a natural history of the area. In its second phase, DWELL is seeking to expand the number of project contributors to include URI students doing creative work from disciplines across the university. As part of this move, we are trying to encourage students to submit a wide array of creative work and proposals—ranging from poetry to music to artwork to photography to videos and more—that we can add to the digital project. CAREERS will support a graduate student fellow in the DWELL Lab to assist with 3D modeling, video production, and digital design over a six month period beginning in Summer 2023.