EXPLORE, EXPLAIN, PROPOSE
Columbia GSAPP, Computational Design Practices · Fall 2025
Co-taught by Chris Woebken and Daniel Miller
Situated computational research examines how systems of mapping, machine vision and urban infrastructure shape power, environmental justice and access to resources.
Student work & course documentation
Further project development is documented in Columbia’s 2026 CDP archive.
Projecting Topographies
Mika Yassur
Machine vision in Gaza traced back to colonial cartography, with sand as a material that resists fixity.
Project advisor: Josh Begley
Trench
Sriya Thotakura
Environmental justice along the Cross Bronx Expressway, indexing community board minutes and organizer testimony as weighted evidence alongside asthma and EJScreen data, delivered as a dashboard for Community Boards.
Project advisor: Kazuki Sakamoto
Tracing Food, Tracing Fragility
Sunni Jiayu Hu
Food access in New York as infrastructural fragility, with a vulnerability index and a Unity environment built from photogrammetry in Red Hook.
Project advisor: Seth Thompson
Course context
Situated computational research examines how systems of mapping, machine vision and urban infrastructure shape power, environmental justice and access to resources.
colloquium · graduate · ARCH A4145 · Colloquium 2 · 21 students
Program theme: Situated Technologies · 2025–2026