The University of Michigan Taubman School of Architecture and Urban Planning has announced the 11 winning grantees of the school's Spatializing Digital Pedagogies grant initiative. The awards represent an effort on the part of the school to "help develop a teaching framework for the fall 2020 semester that blends online and modified-residency education," according to a university website.

The 11 grantees were selected for funding by Anya Sirota, associate dean for academic initiatives and associate professor of architecture, and Jacob Comerci, academic innovation project manager. Leaders selected 11 projects to receive support. 

Regarding the winning proposals, Sirota and Comerci write, "Spatializing Digital Pedagogies emerged from the understanding that through first-hand experience, our faculty, students, and staff are uniquely poised to reimagine ways high caliber learning experiences might be delivered in the near pandemic-inflected future and beyond. We turned to Taubman College for the best ideas on how to move forward responsibly, inclusively, and rigorously."

The full list of winners is included below:

• Detroit NoMoBus Video Orientation Tour: Supports a virtual Detroit city tour that introduces students to the city’s history and inspiring urban projects. Project team: Eric Dueweke (lecturer in urban and regional planning), Ricardo Iglesias (B.S. in Architecture student), and Christopher LeFlore (M.U.R.P. student)
• The Global Agora: CMOK and the World: Creates a platform on CMOK — Taubman College’s virtual community — that maintains the college’s myriad global connections to private and public institutions. The platform will host and archive public programming, including lecturers, debates, and social events. Project team: Maria Arquero de Alarcon (associate professor and M.U.D. director), Claudia Wigger (lecturer in architecture), Yojairo Lomeli (lecturer in architecture), Hui Wang (lecturer in architecture), Ana Paula Pimentel Walker (assistant professor of urban and regional planning), Evan Parness (B.S. in Architecture student), Yunsong Liu (M.U.D. student), Madeeha Ayub (M.U.D. student), Jess Yelk (M.Arch/M.U.R.P. student), Emily Ebersol (M.Arch student), Mekarem Eljamal (M.U.R.P. student), and Taru Taru (urban and regional planning PhD student)
• Online Storefront Renovation and Render Addition: Supports a virtual update of Taubman College’s Media Center. Project team: Charles Darr (staff), Bill Manspeaker (staff), Jaspar von Bülow (staff), Julia McMorrough (associate professor of practice in architecture), Malcolm McCullough (professor of architecture), Catie Newell (associate professor of architecture and M.S.D.M.T. director), Chris Humphrey (M.Arch ‘20 and M.S.D.M.T. student), David Siepmann (M.Arch student), and Elizabeth Greene (M.Arch student)
• Doctoral Colloquium: A Place for Advanced Architectural Research on CMOK: Develops a dedicated Ph.D. space on CMOK for biweekly meetings, video conferences, online workshops, and other tools. Project team: Robert Fishman (professor of architecture and urban and regional planning and Ph.D. in architecture interim director), Joy Knoblauch (assistant professor of architecture), Bader AlBader (architecture Ph.D. student), Irene Brisson (architecture Ph.D. student), Dicle Taskin (architecture Ph.D. student), and Jieqiong Wang (architecture Ph.D. student)
• M.S.D.M.T. Care Package: Supports the procurement of a simple fabrication and computational savvy at-home care package for the M.S. in Digital and Material Technology students — the goal being to maintain the robust connection that the DMT program provides between computational advancement and physical productions and outputs. Project team: Glenn Wilcox (associate professor of architecture), Mark Meier (lecturer in architecture), the M.S.D.M.T. faculty cohort, and Ryan Craney (M.S. ‘20)
• Agility and Flexibility of Team-Based Virtual Studio Environments and Navigational Platforms for Online (Modular) Technology Instruction: Produces a web platform designed to support remote learning for ARCH672 Systems studios and ARCH527 Integrated Systems courses. Project team: Sharon Haar (professor of architecture), Mick Kennedy (lecturer in architecture), and Lars Graebner (associate professor of practice in architecture)
• Taubman Workshop Online (Channel TWO): Creates a series of student-produced video shorts that detail Taubman College as an experience — to be shared with incoming students. Project team: Julia McMorrough (associate professor of practice in architecture), John McMorrough (associate professor of architecture), Megan Clevenger (M.Arch student), Alan Escareno (M.Arch student), Nick Garcia (M.Arch student), Tejashrii Shankarraman (M.Arch student), Shoshanna Sidell (M.Arch student), and Danrui Xiang (M.Arch student)
• Expanded Carbon: Provides subscriptions for students to Paperspace, a cloud computing solution offering access to large amounts of processing power without the need to purchase expensive physical equipment. Project team: Matias del Campo (associate professor of architecture)
• Rigging Videography: Develops a mobile recording studio that captures video content for teaching and communication — essentially a cooking show setup — which promotes heuristic knowledge through making, an element that can be lost in remote teaching settings. Project team: Tsz Yan Ng (assistant professor of architecture), Mackenzie Bruce (M.Arch ‘20 and M.S.D.M.T student), Gabrielle Clune (M.S.D.M.T. student), and Jeffrey Richmond (M.Arch ’20)
• 3D Graphic Room (3DGR): Creates a web platform allowing students to upload 3D models that can be manipulated by users in real time. The function of the platform is twofold; to assist in visualization and co-design efforts between student teams and faculty, and to act as a digital archive for digital work produced at Taubman College. Project team: Mania Aghaei Meibodi (assistant professor of architecture)