Ellie Madsen

Ellie Madsen is a NYC-based researcher, engineer, and designer working at the intersection of media, computation, and the environment.

Her research practice questions the spatial, aesthetic, and epistemic conditions of digital Earth representations, including geographic information systems, climate models, and remote sensing technologies. More broadly, she is interested in how computational infrastructures mediate physical and digital environments. Her research methods include environmental science, computational design, mapping, modeling, writing, data visualization, software engineering, and web development.

Projects

Education

M.Sc. Computational Design Practices, Columbia University GSAPP

B.A. Environmental Studies, B.A. Computer Science, Brown University

Experience

Research Assistant, Climate Impacts Group

Adjunct Associate Research Scholar, Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture

Teaching Associate, Columbia GSAPP

Research Assistant, Polar Geophysics Group

Software Engineer, Pinterest

Environmental Data Analyst, Providence Office of Sustainability

Teaching Assistant, Brown University Socially Responsible Computing

Writing

Embedding Earth: A Critical Atlas of Planetary Computation , Master's Thesis, awarded GSAPP Writing Prize

Reading the Hypercity: Post-Structuralism and Sense-Making in Navigable Space , URBAN Magazine (digital and print)

Sounding the Tree of Life, Are.na Annual (forthcoming)

Speaking

Operational Aesthetics of High Dimensional Planetary Space , Society for the Social Studies of Science

Sonifying Pinna nobilis: Transcoding Tidalectic Measurement and Myth, Sensing Matters: Bard Graduate College Symposium