greenhousestudios

As an interdisciplinary research unit, the Greenhouse Studios team comprises a wide variety of scholars, designers, developers, library professionals, editors, and more. We are a joint effort of the University of Connecticut’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Library, and School of Fine Arts; our team members come from both within and beyond the university.

Our aim is to challenge the ways in which scholarship is created and shared. Our “hypothesis” is an inquiry-driven, collaboration-first scholarly design process, through which we guide interdisciplinary teams to create original works of scholarship as our means of experimentation. Based on collective interests, backgrounds, skills, and aspirations, we conceive and implement a multimodal response to a challenge posed by a prompt. Depending on audiences and aims, projects may take shape in diverse media outputs ranging from interactive websites and immersive virtual reality to exhibitions and documentary films.

As a scholarly research lab, we have created a unique workspace—a scholarly communications design studio—which establishes a “collaboration first” approach that brings a diverse team of people together to create original works of research.We are dedicated to addressing the persistent, intertwined problems of workflow and hierarchy with a mission that equally values all stakeholders involved in producing scholarship. Everyone has a seat at the table and a voice in the conversation.