The Metamedia Lab in Stanford's Archaeology Center is a space for teams and individuals to build projects across different disciplines and fields of practice within and beyond the academy.

What do the projects have in common? Our line that an archaeological sensibility crosscuts disciplinary divides.

The easiest way to see what this means is to look at our main projects.

We build animated archives for collaborative articulation. We like to think of them as memory palaces.

We explore experiences of place in temporal topographies - deep mapping.

We treat media less as material traditions or genres (painting, photography, film, journalism) and more as processes of mediation - different modes of engagement with others, things, experiences (another reason for the prefix 'meta').

We treat such mediation as a never-ending process of reworking, re-presenting, remix, re-iteration - [link]

As such we emphasize design as a process, never-ending, of learning, a conversation.

As a media lab, we deploy digital and analogue media to understand each other, because we hold that there is no absolute distinction between the two.

We embrace collaborative authoring in a challenge to the notion that the origin of making is the authentic creative artist - notes on the idea of a Humanities Lab

All this in the context of both interdisciplinary collaboration and intraclassroom experimental pedagogy.