The Center for LifeLong Learning and Design establishes, both by theoretical work and by building prototype systems, scientific foundations for the construction of socio-technical environments that serve basic individual and societal needs by exploiting innovative information and communication technologies. 

Envisionment and Discovery Collaboratory ― The EDC environment supports problem-solving tasks by unifying diverse systems into two tightly integrated spaces, an action and a reflection space. These spaces integrate elements of physical games, computer simulations, and dynamic information spaces, creating an immersive environment for stakeholders to explore design solutions to their problems.

Silence of the Lands ― This project enables participants to annotate and map the soundscape of urban and natural environments. Participants can record and collect ambient sounds, create and share individual and collective cartographies, and use them as conversation pieces in a social dialogue on natural quiet. 

ActiveSketch ― This sketch-based collaboration environment explores how sketches are used to represent and summarize observable human activities. A goal of this project is to design a sketching system and notation to describe and interpret activities.

Participate — This project is supported by a Google Research Award and explores cultures of participation in the context of SketchUp (a 3D modeling environment), 3D Warehouse (in which all 3D models from contributors around the world are collected), and the use of these models in Google Earth.