Goals
- Challenge inequalities through creative engagements with emerging media technologies, addressing race, gender, and socioeconomic disparities both locally and globally.
- Empower communities with meaningful access to and agency over new media technologies, facilitating forward-thinking research that prioritizes community needs and grassroots innovation.
- Foster interdisciplinary collaboration across CAMD departments and throughout Northeastern University, as well as with international partner centers.
- Support engaged research that creatively challenges traditional disciplinary boundaries and conventional technology design through participatory research methods, and genuine community partnership.
- Promote public dialogue around the role of emerging technologies in shaping equitable and sustainable futures.
CTM accomplishes these goals through monthly research workshops, research mini-grants, fellowship programs, and collaborative projects that bring together scholars, artists, technology designers, and community members. We provide a platform for open-access and community-engaged research projects that are both historically informed and oriented toward building a more just future.
Our work contributes to creating the conditions for sustainable cities, mobility and data justice, and health equity through research that bridges academic inquiry with real-world community needs.
