College of Design (CoD)
In 2016, the College of Architecture was renamed the College of Design. The College of Design use the design process to develop new technologies, anticipate the future of buildings and environments, and change the way people experience art, things and their immediate surroundings.
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Sub-communities within this community
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Center for Quality Growth and Regional Development (CQGRD) [104]
CQGRD bring together the expertise and resources to develop innovative, responsible, and efficient solutions to achieve quality growth. -
College of Design Dean's Symposium [7]
The Dean’s Symposium series is an annual event jointly sponsored by the College of Design and its Alumni Committee -
School of Architecture [231]
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School of Music [74]
Among the oldest traditions of the Institute, the School of Music began when a group of fourteen students formed the Georgia Tech Band in 1908. Now, in addition to its unparalleled dedication to traditional performing arts, ...
Collections in this community
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Architecture Centennial Lecture Series [14]
A series of lectures and events celebrating 100 years of architectural education at Georgia Tech. -
Building Construction Apartment Industry Lecture Series [9]
An overview of the emerging building construction apartment industry -
College of Design Annual Reports [9]
Annual reports of the College of Design -
College of Design Books [1]
Books published by students and faculty of the College of Design -
College of Design Brochures [2]
Descriptive brochures about the programs and degrees offered by the College of Design -
College of Design Faculty Publications [30]
Papers, Pre/Post-Prints, and Presentations by Faculty in the College of Design -
College of Design Newsletters [32]
Published college news. -
College of Design OSP Research Reports [156]
Research reports by faculty and researchers in the College of Design -
College of Design Theses and Dissertations [1346]
Original work by students of College of Design -
College of Design Undergraduate Projects [1517]
Original work by undergraduate students in the College of Design -
Design and Technology for Healthy Aging Initiative at Georgia Tech (DATHA) [25]
A multidisciplinary effort that brings together researchers, practitioners and service providers from Georgia Tech and the Atlanta area to identify, develop and implement new design and technologies for healthy aging -
Georgia Tech Solar Decathlon 2007 [1]
Documents related to Georgia Tech's entry in this international competition -
PhD Focus [8]
The newsletter of the College of Design's (formerly College of Architecture) PhD Program. -
T. Gordon Little Lecture Series in Imagination [1]
A series of lectures in honor of celebrated Atlanta interior designer T. Gordon Little -
Urban Connections [4]
The newsletter of the Georgia Tech City and Regional Planning Program.
Recent Submissions
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High Performance (Sub)urbanism
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022)This studio report documents the redevelopment proposals of six teams of MS urban design and MS high performance building students to advance DeKalb County's 2020 Memorial Drive Revitalization Plan. The report is intended ... -
A Greenspace Ethnography of Southwest Atlanta: A Review and Tool
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-05-03)The purpose of this thesis study is to provide a tool and foundation for a community science-based greenspace ethnography of a neighborhood. The research requires an assessment of environmental history, policy, plans, and ... -
Development and evaluation of a design tool for occupational therapists to facilitate co-design of assistive technology with designers
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-05-05)Development of effective assistive technology (AT) for individuals for disabilities necessitates close collaboration between occupational therapists (OTs) and designers. Currently, their successful collaboration is hampered ... -
Impact of Tangible Augmented Reality on Electromyography Output
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-05-03)The utilization of augmented reality for guiding user motions and the incorporation of sensors as an assessment tool are areas of growing interest. Potential for future application exists in the viability to produce real-time ... -
Functional Materials: Investigating ways to make traditional prototyping materials sensible and reactive leveraging with computing technologies
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-05-03)This thesis presents a fabrication tool-kit developed through material-driven inquiry to make the rigid prototyping materials flexible and augment their sensing capability by combining them with conductive substrate ... -
Enriching printed book reading experience by providing additional digital content through AR technology
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-05-03)This thesis investigates how to design a new reading experience using the smartphone application with AR technology. This approach combines traditional printed book reading with related digital media available on the web ... -
Re-Think the Streets: An Evaluation of Green Street Practices as a Method to Achieve Combined Sewer Separation
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-04-19)Older cities across the United States have been grappling with how to mitigate stormwater for decades. The ongoing trend of land development coupled with the heightened frequency and intensity of storm events has necessitated ... -
Urban Thermal Diagnostics and Extreme Heat Vulnerability in Underrepresented Communities
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-01-27)According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the globally averaged surface temperatures of the Earth have increased by 0.6 ± 0.2°C in the 20th century and models have projected that by 2100 (relative ... -
The serious potential of fun games: a new model for public engagement
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-04-25)This dissertation examines the relationship between game playing and social learning in public participation activities and whether and to what extent participants demonstrate enhanced collaborative decision making (collective ... -
Eye strain caused by excessive eye use, and using design to relieve it
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-04)In recent years, extended use of computers has become more and more often. Due to the technology’s immaturity and lack of humanized eyecare design, visual fatigue affects more and more people. The American Optometric ... -
Can You Hear My Heartbeat?: Hearing an Expressive Biosignal Elicits Empathy - Supplementary Data
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-05-07)Interfaces designed to elicit empathy provide an opportunity for HCI with important pro-social outcomes. Recent research has demonstrated that perceiving expressive biosignals can facilitate emotional understanding and ... -
An Application for Urban Analytics
The objective of this research was to develop a new, data-based methodology for analyzing urban environments. By combining graph-based street network data with socioeconomic data scraped from open sources such as Google ... -
Using music to modulate emotional memory
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-12-14)Music is powerful in both affecting emotion and evoking memory. This thesis explores if music might be able to modulate, or change, aspects of our emotional episodic memories. We present a behavioral, human-subjects ... -
Investigating Travel Behavior in Transit-Oriented Development: Toward Sustainable and Multimodal Mobility
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-12-14)An extensive literature has shown that transit-oriented development residents (TOD) have lower automobile use and diverse travel modes due to easy access to transit, better walkability, and proximity to various amenities. ... -
Assessing mental wellbeing in urban areas using social media data: understanding when and where urbanites stress and de-stress
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-12-10)Are Americans more stressed out by living in dense, urbanized areas or less dense, car-oriented areas? To answer this question, can we use people's expressions of stress in different environments to understand what kinds ... -
White Spatial Planning Practices: Deconstructing Narratives around Race, Space, and Privilege
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-10-29)Racial inequality in the United States persists across multiple measures of health, wealth, and education despite changes in laws and policies to end de jure segregation. One reason is the way representations of space ... -
Shared E-scooter Adoption and Mode Substitution Patterns
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-08-30)This thesis explores the adoption and mode substitution patterns of e-scooters using survey data from four metropolitan areas in the southern United States, obtained from Fall 2019 to Spring 2020. For adoption patterns, ... -
A FRAMEWORK TO SIMULATE THE NON-VISUAL EFFECTS OF DAYLIGHT ON THE COGNITIVE HEALTH OF ELDERLY INDIVIDUALS
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-12-10)Human health and well-being concerns have been brought to the forefront of building performance assessment through contemporary practices of sustainability design. Within the bounds of sustainability, daylighting plays a ... -
Building-integrated Biotic Carbon Sequestration Technioques: Overview and Simulation Workflow
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-12-07)There is enough scientific consensus that anthropogenic climate change is a reality of our times. According to a report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering 2019, “By mid-century, the world needs to be ... -
Investigating the Efficiency of Authoring Interactions for Augmented Reality Experiences for Designers
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-12-03)Recent advances in augmented reality (AR) have provided an opportunity for this technology to be used in the industrial design and development process, especially, for product visualization and representing product concepts ...
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