Laura Devendorf is a design researcher who builds digital tools for communicating and negotiating with materials. Her current research is deeply engaged with weaving and weavers. Specifically, she has spent the last several years developing AdaCAD, a tool for applying the principles of computational design to the creation of woven structures. The AdaCAD project has created opportunities for her to explore how slowness, humility, and care can inform the design of digital tools and the products people use them to create. She uses these tools in her artistic practice to create strange computerized garments that commemorate labor and struggle. Her research has won several best paper awards in the field of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and has been supported by the National Science Foundation CAREER Grant.
Laura is an Assistant Professor of Information Science with the at the ATLAS Institute at the University of Colorado, Boulder where she directs the Unstable Design Lab. She is also affiliate faculty in the departments of Computer Science and Intermedia Writing, Art, and Performance. She received her PhD at the School of Information at University of California, Berkeley and have bachelors degrees in computer science and studio art from the University of California Santa Barbara.
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The most up to date record of publications, teaching and exhibition can be found on my CU experts page.