Email:
elisa [dot] giaccardi [at] colorado [dot] edu

Senior Research Scientist at:
Center for LifeLong Learning & Design (L3D)
Department of Computer Science
University of Colorado at Boulder, USA

Welcome!

I am a Senior Research Scientist at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where I am affiliated with the Department of Computer Science.

I work in cultural informatics, which describes a research area where cultural practice, digital media and information science converge.

My present work revolves around the construction and meaning of cultural heritage. It focuses on emerging cultural artifacts and forms of curation such as collective memories, affective geographies, and civic curatorial practices. In doing so, I address issues of social practice, public formation, and sense of place that go beyond conventional museological concerns, and contribute to basic research in human-centered computing.

My goal is to theorize, facilitate, and engage in creative and transformative design practices that supplement critical reflection with social action and cultural intervention. My approach promotes interdisciplinary collaboration, practice-based research, and community-based media projects to support open design narratives, sustained participation, and situated evaluation.

Related research areas: digital humanities; heritage informatics; community informatics; social computing; information technology and creative practices; design studies.

News

Grants
NSF awards the project
Community of Soundscapes: Expanding Environmental Awareness Through Capture and Sharing of Sonic Experiences.

Publications
Sense of Place: New Media, Cultural Heritage and Place-Making is now available through IngentaConnect.

The Social Production of Heritage Through Cross-Media Interaction (with Leysia Palen) is now available for download as a PDF.

Teaching
Adjunct Professor for the newly established PhD Program in Heritage Informatics of Politecnico di Torino, Italy.