The Situated Systems panel documents an experimental research model developed around Autodesk Pier 9 in which critical inquiry is deliberately constructed across art, design, architecture and technology. Its iconic idea is hybrid research: one question should be examined from multiple disciplinary positions while remaining materially tied to a site and its fabrication infrastructure. The contribution lies in insisting that technical environments require public discourse and theoretical reflection if their cultural implications are to become legible. Methodologically, the project joins site-based research, workshop infrastructure, public conversation and interdisciplinary collaboration. The wider bridge is to STS and laboratory studies, because the workshop is treated as both a productive facility and an epistemic environment whose tools, institutional language and social organisation shape what knowledge can be produced. Situated Systems therefore models how technical infrastructures can be studied from within without collapsing critical distance.
