The Envisionment and Discovery Collaboratory

These are some of the projects that have served as stepping stones during the evolution of the EDC.

• Cole Neighborhood Experience

  The Cole Neighborhood is an area in northwest Denver that had signifigant need for economic and community redevelopment. Under Mayor Peña, funds for infrastructure and bank loan packages for property improvements were made available to the area, and the decisions about how the money would be spent were to be made by community participants.

• Mr. Rogers' Sustainable Neighborhood

  An initial project to investigate the use of computational media in the role of design and learning in the domain of environmental design, the first instantiation of Mr. Rogers' was an exploratory computer simulation that allowed players to navigate their neighborhood and presented them with community design situations utilizing the WWW to provide background and argumentation.

• InterSim (INTERactive SIMulation) Station

  InterSim is an environment that supports the integration of physical and virtual models and simulations in support of face-to-face communication.