IMSA Research Areas:

Animated Work Environments

Spaces for Collective Memory

comforTABLE for aging in place

Creativity Support Tools

Informal Learning Environments

Intelligent Housing

RTEX Smart Panel Systems

Urban Disaster-Response

 

 

IMSA: A Transdisciplinary Design-Research Group

In a world that is ever-more complex - politically, socially, environmentally and technologically - critical issues of the built and natural environments demand the very attention that researchers too often neglect: design research undertaken as a collaborative, transdisciplinary pursuit. The expanding knowledge economy, new technologies associated with computing and advanced materials, striking demographic changes, working life and education in a digital society, and unprecedented sprawl are concerns far too complex for responses by Architects, Computer and Electrical Engineers, and Materials Researchers working in isolation; these concerns beckon, instead, a response from design-research groups like Intelligent Materials and Systems for Architecture [IMSA] at Clemson University.

Links to people offer an introduction to IMSA participants.