Postdoctoral Fellow, School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design
Research Fellow
S. Grace Grothaus, PhD, is an artist, scientist, and postdoctoral researcher at York University working across computational media arts, environmental sensing, wearable technology, and participatory design. A former Vanier Scholar and current Connected Minds postdoctoral researcher in Dr. Shital Desai's SaTS Lab, she investigates how emerging technologies can make environmental conditions perceptible and support public engagement with planetary health.
Grothaus leads We Are Air Aware, an interdisciplinary research initiative developing AirWear, a portable air-quality monitoring device, and a participatory community mapping platform. Working with Toronto's Bathurst Quay community, the project brings residents into the design and evaluation of technologies for understanding localized particulate air pollution. Her research also includes the development of novel sensing approaches for black carbon.
Her research-creation practice, which she describes as envirographic art, translates environmental information into embodied experiences through interactive installations, computational systems, and wearable artworks. Her recent work AtmoSpheres 01 uses illuminated textile forms and breathing animations to communicate particulate pollution through the body.
Grothaus's work bridges environmental science, human-computer interaction, digital fabrication, and artistic research, with a focus on interdisciplinary collaboration, community participation, and new forms of ecological understanding.
Research Keywords
Planetary health; environmental sensing; air pollution; particulate matter; black carbon; wearable technology; participatory design; citizen science; computational art; environmental data visualization; research-creation.
Themes | Planetary Health |
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