SYLVIA H JANICKI

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About

I’m a PhD student in the Design & Social Justice Studio at Georgia Tech’s Digital Media program working with Dr. Nassim Parvin. My academic research uses design-based inquiry that draws on feminist, posthumanist, and disability theories and explores making practices that integrate digital and living systems. My work examines bodies, both human and non-human, as instruments of data creation to explore contingent and relational qualities of place.

My research interests builds on my previous experiences in landscape architecture and urban design, particularly in emotional and community spaces like gardens and memorials, as well as craft and art-based practices, including some work in screen printing.

Designs

Digital Media
Becoming with Plants: Reflections on Human-Plant Relationships
Heart Sense 2.0: An Interactive Visualization of Embodied Human Connection
Navigating Illness, Finding Place: A Place Finding App Prototype and User Study
Screen Prints of Place: Imagination and Memories of Taipei
Skating as Resistance: Photogrammetric Model of the Ballard Bowl as Critique of Landscape Architecture Practice
The Tardigrade Project
Landscape & Urban Design
[Dis]placed by Illness: Exploring Environmental Narratives of Chronic Illness
Big Maple Little Alley:
Urban Alleyway Activation
Taking Root:
Community Building through A Native Medicinal Garden
Ripple Effect:
Stormwater Managemetnt and Ecological Restoration in the PDRT Campus Master Plan
Kaukauna Library Garden (with Saiki Design)
Urban Streetscape: Library Mall & State Street Redesign
(with Saiki Design)
Middleton City Hall Community Garden
Good Neighbor Trail Corridor
Memorial Design: Middleton Community Veteran’s Tribute
(with Saiki Design)
Medicinal Garden at UW School of Pharmacy
(with Saiki Design)
Verona Road Public Art Coordination
(with Saiki Design)
Projects 4 Fun
p5js sketches
Bat Dog: Patrol Team Tees
PacDog
Skating the Spoonbridge: 3D modeling & Animation in Rhino
AR $ Generator
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Publications

Gupta, Shubhangi, Janicki, Sylvia, Casula, Pooja and Nassim Parvin. (2022). Rethinking Safe Mobility: the Case of Safetipin in India. ACM Information & Communication Technologies and Development Conference (ICTD ‘22). Forthcoming.

Janicki, Sylvia, Ziegler, Matt, and Jennifer Mankoff. (2021). Navigating Illness, Finding Place: Enhancing the Experience of Place for People with Chronic Illness. ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies (COMPASS ’21). Available at: https://doi.org/10/1145/3460112.3471955

Chen, Yen-Fu and Sylvia Janicki. (2020). A Cognitive-Based Board Game With Augmented Reality for Older Adults: Development and Usability Study. JMIR Serious Games. 8(4):e22007. doi: 10.2196/22007. PMID: 33315015; PMCID: PMC7769693. Available at https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33315015/

Janicki, Sylvia. (2018). [Dis]placed by Illness: Lyme disease as a Case for Re-imagining Everyday Places to Recognize Invisible Chronic illnesses. MLA and MUP Thesis. University of Washington, Seattle, WA. Available at https://digital.lib.washington.edu/researchworks/handle/1773/42423

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