UMD Viz Lab / MMAD Lab

05/27/2025

Greetings from the MMAD Lab. We are performing some test captures with our new Rokoko markerless motion capture suit. Stay tuned for some awesome mocap animations.

09/19/2024

A UMD engineering student 3D scanning a Bulldog hockey player today in the MMAD Lab.

03/27/2024

HAPPENING RIGHT NOW:

Earth Week Tabling Takeover
March 27, 10am-2pm
UMD Kirby Commons

MMAD Lab and UMD Sustainability Office are showcasing videos from their Climate Change Storytelling project, which started a year ago on Earth Day and has resulted in numerous videos, public speaking engagements, community visioning sessions and art work. The project was funded by the U of M and is created to engage new audiences through storytelling utilizing cutting edge technology.

Don't miss your chance to see these amazing videos on Climate Change Storytelling!

03/27/2024

TODAY IS THE DAY!

Don't miss UMD Earth Week event showcasing fascinating videos from MMAD Lab's Climate Change Storytelling Project

Earth Week Tabling Takeover
10am-2pm
UMD Kirby Commons

Why is storytelling important:
Storytelling is how we develop individual and collective identities that define the ends we seek... Storytelling is how we access the emotional, or moral, resources for the motivation to act on those ends.
- Marshall Ganz, The Power of Story in Social Movements

03/26/2024

EARTH WEEK IS HERE! See you tomorrow!

Don't miss MMAD Lab's tabling takeover and videos tomorrow!
Kirby Commons
10am-2 pm

The videos will be featuring our Climate Change Storytelling project:
>>> We believe addressing the climate crisis begins with talking about climate change topics openly, regularly, and in community.

Our project has included not only videos, but also public speaking engagements, community visioning sessions and art work.

Community Visioning Sessions: Community members, including children came together at different events and locations to discuss and draw pictures of their vision of climate resiliency in our area. The events and locations included: First Robotics Duluth Regional and Juneteenth event, Pike Lake Elementary School, Peace Church Youth Group and Harbor City International School and UMD Art Department.

03/26/2024

HAPPY EARTH WEEK!

To celebrate this special week we want to highlight some amazing conversations we recorded as part of the Climate Change Storytelling project:

Duluth Community Climate Conversations:
Duluthians talk about climate change and hope, loving nature and caring for each other. Ideas to spread.

Duluthians talk about climate change and hope, loving nature and caring for each other. Ideas to spread.

03/25/2024

HAPPY EARTH WEEK EVERYONE!

In honor of Earth Week we are proud to show off our Climate Change Storytelling project work, including the final website.

What is Climate Change Storytelling project?
UMD MMAD Lab collected and shared stories to increase awareness of climate change and action.

Did you know this?
UMD Sustainability is visioning the next 30 years of climate action to reach carbon neutrality by 2050 or earlier with its Campus Climate Action Plan.

Check out the videos and other work on the Climate Change Storytelling website, below:

Climate change is a compelling storyFunded by the U of M Research Grant, UMD MMAD Lab has collected and shared these stories to increase awareness of climate change and action. UMD Campus Climate Action Plan UMD Sustainability is visioning the next 30 years of climate action to reach carbon neutrali...

03/25/2024

HAPPY EARTH WEEK!

Our Climate Change Storytelling project brought a lot of important information and conversations together. Here is one we think you would find interesting:

Solar Power at UMD

This is a video produced by the UMD Sun Delegation explaining how solar power on the University of Minnesota Duluth campus works. A practical how-to guide to solar power.

This is a video produced by the UMD Sun Delegation explaining how solar power on the University of Minnesota Duluth campus works.

03/22/2024

UMD Earth Week event will include work from Climate Change Storytelling Project

Earth Week Tabling Takeover
March 27, 10am-2pm
UMD Kirby Commons

To honor Earth Week, the MMSD Lab and UMD Sustainability Office will showcase videos from its Climate Change Storytelling project, which started a year ago on Earth Day and has resulted in numerous videos, public speaking engagements, community visioning sessions and art work. The project was funded by the U of M and is created to engage new audiences through storytelling utilizing cutting edge technology.

More information can be found on the project website - see below:

Climate change is a compelling storyFunded by the U of M Research Grant, UMD MMAD Lab has collected and shared these stories to increase awareness of climate change and action. UMD Campus Climate Action Plan UMD Sustainability is visioning the next 30 years of climate action to reach carbon neutrali...

03/18/2024

Did you know?

A year ago UMD Viz Lab / MMAD Lab and the UMD Sustainability Office received a grant (through the University of Minnesota Global Programs and Strategy Alliance) to support their Climate Change Storytelling project.

As part of the project we have now collected and shared numerous stories to increase awareness of climate change and action.

The stories have been shared in various formats, including: videos, public speaking engagements, community visioning sessions and art work.

Check out some of the videos and more information about the project at: https://cahss.d.umn.edu/climate-storytelling-grant-redesign

03/13/2024

MARK YOUR CALENDAR!

As part of the UMD Earth Week events, the MMAD Lab will be showcasing videos from the Climate Change Storytelling project at UMD Kirby Commons, Wednesday, March 27 between 10am and 2pm. The event is free and open to the public.

Picture below from Climate Change Storytelling project related interview: David Bowen - Wilderness: Thirteen disposable plastic shopping bags playfully dance in the gallery space articulated by wave data collected on a voyage across the Pacific Ocean.

10/06/2022

Learning how to move in the digital world and the real one 😎

We are learning how to motion capture at the MMAD lab