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Dr. David A. Banks is a founding member of the Make Collective headquartered in Troy, NY, USA and will serve as lead investigator in the Augmented Direct Democracy Project for the second quarter rotation, 2033. David has served as lecturer at multiple schools in the New York Capital Region and New York City including CUNY, Rensselaer University (where he received his Ph.D), and the Unified New England Universities, Albany campus (Formerly SUNY, Albany). David is the author of //Technologies of Public Space: A Field Guide for Activist Academics// (AK Press 2017)and co-editor of the volume //Cyborgology: A Compendium of Augmented Reality// (Princeton Press 2019)//.// He has also been published in //The Atlantic, The New Inquiry, N+1 Magazine,// and //The Baffler.// David has also worked on multiple projects including the Federation of Makers and Hackers a broad coalition of hacker, maker, and DIY spaces meant to exchange resources and knowledge and //Make Society!// a week-long academic and activist fair based in Troy, New York that WIRED editor Guy Schafer has called “The obvious heir to the recently defunct [|SXSW]. Also it doesn’t suck.” David is currently writing a book about the mass exodus of the American suburbs and retrofitting efforts of local municipalities.

David’s research interests include public space, radical geography, augmented reality, critical making, critical technical practice, participatory action research, and the social theory of design.