Megan Wiessner is a postdoctoral research fellow at UVA’s Digital Technology for Democracy Lab. Her scholarship focuses on the spatial, environmental, and sociocultural impacts of media infrastructures, and especially on how digital technologies reshape design work, labor practices, and industrial landscapes.
During her fellowship, she is continuing to work on several collaborative research projects and is developing a book manuscript on the role of digital technology in the growing mass timber industry in the Pacific Northwest. The project documents how digitalization in architecture and construction has influenced the way architectural sustainability is imagined and measured, how this has facilitated the unlikely reinvention of timber as a climate-friendly material, and what this means for forests, housing, and workers.
She holds a PhD in media, culture, and communication at New York University and an MSc from the University of Oxford School of Geography and the Environment. Her ethnographic and archival work have been supported by the Wenner-Gren Foundation and the Canadian Centre for Architecture.
