The Global Lab.
We use digital media and creative scholarship to connect people and ideas.
We foster collaborative processes, where practitioners, community members, researchers, and students work together to build a sustainable, resilient, and just future.
We build on WPI’s network of domestic and international project centers to experiment and learn about the power of community-engaged action research.
AI at a crossroads: Who shapes the future?
View Katherine Elkin’s public talk at 3:30 pm on February 19, 2025.
Mimi Sheller on the New Mobilities Paradigm
Join the Global Lab Conversation with Dean Mimi Sheller on her work on mobility and climate resilience.
Roger Gottlieb on physical versus digitally mediated experiences of nature
Join the Global Lab conversation with Professor Roger Gottlieb on the implications of mediating nature through digital media.
Aarti Smith-Madan
Transmedia Storytelling for Transpacific Studies: Migrant Narratives from the Global South
Marja Bakermans
Publishing student-authored Open Education Resources (OERs).
Women In STEM
We highlight the challenges of being a woman in STEM with research and programs that support women and girls in technical fields.
Promoting integrated land-use planning for sustainability and climate resilience in Massachusetts
We explore the ways that goals for sustainability and climate resilience in Massachusetts portend significant transformation of the landscape in the next decades.
Climate Stories
We support research that catalyzes engagement and adaptation decision-making and we help develop creative climate communications.
