A semester-long course co-taught by four faculty:
Lydia Chilton (CS)
Mark Hansen(Journalism)
Laura Kurgan (Architecture)
Celeste Layne (Adjunct in CS and Architecture)

48 students from CS, Journalism, and Architecture
A paid three-week lab led by four faculty:
Lydia Chilton (CS)
Mark Hansen (Journalism)
Laura Kurgan (Architecture)
Celeste Layne (Adjuncti in CS and Architecture)

12 students from CS, Journalism, and Architecture
June 8th-26th 2020. The Public Interest Technology (PIT) Summer Lab was the first official course for PIT at Columbia. A collaboration mixing Architecture, Urban Planning, Computer Science, and Journalism, the lab will explore interdisciplinary design processes and principles for Human Computer Interaction (HCI) that respond to the potentials as well as the adverse effects of computation on society today.