Digital Studies

Avery Kerwin, Will Jones, Andrew Sherrill, Patrick Kelly

Faculty Sponsor: Dr. Mendes

Addie Woods

Faculty Sponsor: Sundi Richard, Suzanne Churchill

Sofia Gonzalez Leal, Niara Webb

Faculty Sponsor: Suzanne Churchill and Sundi Richard

Aj Naddaff

Faculty Sponsor: Suzanne Churchill & Sundi Richards

Claire Biggerstaff, Drew Kromer, Olivia Liccione, Catherine Lori, Caroline Macaulay, Alivia McAtee, Will Messner, Arianna Montero-Colbert, Tony Nguyen, José Olvera, Blake Skelton, Danae Theocharaki, Victor-Alan Weeks

Faculty Sponsor: Mark Sample

DIG 401 students will present their “subjunctive projects”—speculative design projects that raise questions culture, technology, and power in the digital age.

Ariana Wasret

Faculty Sponsor: Sundi Richard and Suzanne Churchill

For my project I created a website that investigates the construction of solarpunk. Solarpunk is a movement that encourages optimistic envisionings of the future in light of present environmental concerns such as climate change and pollution. Solarpunk encompasses a multitude of media such as literature, art, architecture, fashion, music, and games. There is not yet any released scholarship on the movement so I focused on the early foundations of researching, where solarpunk comes from and where it stands in relation to other related ideas. I displayed the results of my research by creating an interactive family tree of the different concepts/movements that surround solarpunk. I also included a written section that allows the reader to gain a basic understanding of the movement.

Andrea Garcia, Andriy Molchanov, Dimitrios Chavouzis

Faculty Sponsor: Dr. Mendes

We are creating an automated inventory system for the Biology department of Davidson College. Currently, the department organizes its inventory using CSV files and a scan system. We will create a database support (using SQL) and a front-end website (HTML, JavaScript, CSS and PHP) connected with that database. Through the website, the faculty and students of the department will be able to log-in, filter, search, and quickly find the item they are looking for. The item’s current location and its location history will also be available. The functionality of the website is not only for querying the database but for updating it as well. The website will work with the current scan system, allowing the faculty to update the database in a more convenient way. The functionalities will vary since not all the users of the website will have the same access to it (faculty will have access to more functionalities than students). Our overall goal is to create a product that will be used by the client (Biology Department of Davidson College) and will successfully solve their current problem.

Naira Oberoi

Faculty Sponsor: Suzanne Churchill

This attempt at a digital humanities post-colonial intervention seeks to wed sophisticated design to a pedagogical endeavor inspired by pioneering work such as Deepika Bahri’s post-colonial studies database hosted by Emory University. Envisioned as a resource for students as well as the interested larger public, the hope is that such a project is able to use the digital medium to make dense and jargon-heavy scholarship more accessible to students.