Biography

Daragh Byrne an Associate Teaching Professor at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Architecture. He is core faculty in the Computational Design graduate programs in the School of Architecture, actively teaches in the IDeATe network, and hold a courtesy appointment in the School of Design and the Human Computer Interaction Institute. He values human-centered, arts- integrative and multidisciplinary approaches and work closely with architects, designers and artists. His teaching and research focuses on topics including the internet of things, experiential media, and the maker movement. He also builds capacities through innovative pedagogies and platforms that build communities of practice. He is a founding member of the Ground Works initiative — a partnership between CMU and the Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (a2ru) — that recently launched an online platform to support new forms of arts-integrative scholarship and discourse. His current NSF-funded research focuses on leveraging the internet of things to support documentation in maker-based learning (#1736189). Previous work has included the MakeSchools Alliance, an effort to catalog making in higher education, and the NSF-funded XSEAD project, a community platform for curating arts-integrative collaborations.