Barbara Klinkhammer, Dipl.-Ing.
Dean and Professor
Director, SMARTlab @ Jefferson
Barbara.Klinkhammer@Jefferson.edu
SMARTlab
SMARTlab at Jefferson promotes user-driven, transdisciplinary research leveraging creative technologies for social change. Solving real-world problems, SMARTlab at Jefferson aims to build a sustainable and inclusive future for all.
What is SMARTlab?
SMARTlab is an academic collective created to ignite change. It promotes user-driven, transdisciplinary research, leveraging Creative Technology Innovations for social change.
For three decades, SMARTlab has run an award-winning practice-based PhD program — now in partnership to The College of Architecture & Built Environment's PhD in Architecture & Design Research program — and delivered high-impact research, development and innovation program and projects. SMARTlab aims to bring together the brightest minds across disciplines and to provide them with the tools they need to contribute to solving real-world problems and building sustainable solutions.
We provide world-class research and incubation space and offer a brain trust for academic staff, practice-based PhD students, Postdoctoral Researchers, transdisciplinary teams spanning the arts, engineering, humanities, social and natural sciences, Connected public health and business Innovation domains, alongside private and public sector partners.
SMARTlab Meeting Spring 2025 Research Seminar & Writers Retreat
SMARTlab has two upcoming PhD meetings happening in March. The first meeting is from March 24-26 for the SMARTlab Research Seminar. The second meeting is happening on March 27 + 28 for the Writers Retreat.
Contact Charles Mathews to RSVP.
SMARTlab is about coming together to create solutions, using technology to enable connectedness for the future of education, and the future of culture and community.
PhD in Architecture & Design Research
The SmartLAB Practice-Based PhD in Architecture & Design Research focuses on Inclusive Design & Creative Technology Innovation. This online/hybrid program emphasizes interdisciplinary research, leveraging expertise in architecture, business, engineering, and health sciences to address contemporary issues and contribute to the field's future.
SMARTlab at Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson University joined the global network of SMARTlab and now provides the only SMARTlab practice-based PhD in the United States. This unique partnership allows students to take part in the rich academic programming and unique collaborative experiences that build trust and community among the SMARTlab faculty, researchers and PhD students. With an emphasis on health architecture and design professions, Thomas Jefferson University adds an additional dimension to the transdisciplinary research teams.
Jefferson's Global Footprint Helps University Join World-Renowned Social Impact Lab
Via relationships forged by the All-Island Ireland Center, the University becomes the lone North American institution to offer the SMARTlab practice-based PhD program.
Leadership
Kihong Ku, DDes
Program Director, PhD Program - SMARTlab Jefferson
Kihong.Ku@Jefferson.edu
Lizbeth Goodman, MA, MLitt, PhD, FRSA
Professor
Founder and Director of SMARTlab
Founder and Director of the Inclusive Design Research Center of Ireland @ UCD
Lizbeth.Goodman@UCD.ie