Mission

Creative and aggressive collaboration in the academic-industrial sectors of the built environment is critical to solving challenges facing us in the information age. Moving between informatics, systems, ecologies and physical outcomes enables us to make better design decisions, develop solutions faster and bring new products and processes to industry and manufacturing.

The Institute for Intelligent Materials, Systems and Environments (iMSE) is an interdisciplinary research unit focused on applied research in the built environment. The Institute works across multiple scales from building and landscape materials to large scale urban communities and ecosystems. As an interdisciplinary research unit, the Institute works to advance research in applications of informatics in the design, management, development and construction of the built environment. The digital ecology of the Institute includes design practices that promote sustainability and resiliency, manage and reduce the consumption of natural resources, promote the use of data informatics for robust decision spaces, and develop human-machine hybrid solutions to address environmental, technological and social change while seeking to understand how these changes shape our world.