Research

The Black Paint Curriculum Lab is a research and design space housed within the Department of Curriculum & Teaching at Teachers College. We host a vibrant weekly meeting for dialogue and cultural outings with a rotating group of participants, including current TC students, faculty, and alumni. Our activities center around investigative prompts to spark curiosity about knowledge that lives in emotions, memory, embodiment, senses, and spaces. We consider what might be learned from these provocations to inform teaching and learning. We wander, walk, map, and make as creative experiences that connect curriculum theorizing to actual curriculum design practices for diverse populations in a wide range of learning contexts. 

Media and Social Change Lab (MASCLab) supports media creation intended to spark social change, and the critical curation of and engagement with media through the lens of its impact on society. Our research and scholarship interrogates how media and society influence each other, multimedia-based research methodologies, and the development of pedagogy that uses media to foster civic engagement. MASCLab is housed in the Communication, Media, and Learning Technologies Design Program at Teachers College, Columbia University.

The Snow Day Learning Lab is the research group and design laboratory of Professor Nathan Holbert and is located at Teachers College, Columbia University. Our primary goal is to understand how people make sense of their world through play. To that end, we make and study games, toys, tools and technologies that offer opportunities to experience and explore things of personal and communal value, and further our understanding of how people think, learn, and play.