Dive Brief:
- A 3,300-square-foot section of the Georgia State University library is now home to CURVE, the Collaborative University Research & Visualization Environment.
- The massive installation features a 24-foot-wide interactive video wall and additional computers at small group collaboration stations.
- Already, CURVE has facilitated interdisciplinary projects in community geography, archaeology, urban gardening, and research on molecular modeling and food deserts.
Dive Insight:
CURVE’s placement in the university library rather than an academic building and its construction with glass walls rather than opaque ones were intentional design features that will make the visualization space familiar to the wider Georgia State community. Project leaders hope the space will lead to a deeper collective understanding of the power and scope of information technology. While CURVE only opened in September, students across the institution, including undergraduates, have already begun participating in research projects. The cost to build CURVE was $1.2 million, split across multiple university divisions.