A photobook documenting research, writing, and design projects by first-year Cornell students. Combining old school and new school, writers mix argument and story, idea and image using forms of transmedia knowledge and strategic storytelling to tackle issues ranging from AI and griefbots to tariff wars and time travel.

Student projects present research from their own fields of interest using a variety of media genres: journal articles, abstracts, proposals, annotated bibliographies, info comics, posters, Pecha Kucha presentations, conference panels, and a public design exhibition at MACRE, a new media arts collective and resource exchange in Ithaca, NY.

Projects by Yen Bui, Gary Chau, Juliet Crane, Emma Ge, Isabella Guo, Joyce Huang, Akhil Kagithapu, Fiona Lawrence, Hannah Lee, Jonathan Li, Ye Lin, Neha Nair, Darian Pan, Yhanna Prieste, Niko Ross, Cullen Slattery, Katie Summers, May Wu, Derek Yang, Emmy Yang, Albert Zheng, and Eliana Zlotnick.

The StudioLab pedagogy bridges expert and common knowledge to address the crisis of learning and living in times of eco-anxiety, pandemics, culture wars, and economic uncertainties.