The research and publication arm of PIP Projects Inc. Institutional home of The Digital Sidewalk paradigm. Founded 2023 by Darby Bailey McDonough, Ph.D.
Digital Sidewalk Lab is the research and publication arm of PIP Projects Inc. It houses the academic and pedagogical work of Darby Bailey McDonough, Ph.D., including The Digital Sidewalk — a measurable framework for entertainment-education grounded in Jane Jacobs’ urban sociology, Gordon Pask’s Interaction of Actors Theory, and Mitchell Duneier’s ethnographic methodology. Research is peer-reviewed and presented at IEEE and national communication association conferences.
Entertainment-education through orality, sound, and cybernetic feedback in decentralized digital and physical communities.
Frameworks linking acoustic environments, psychosocial systems, and community cybernetics to quantify resilience outcomes.
Pask’s Interaction of Actors Theory applied to transmedia programming and decentralized community infrastructure design.
Mass media persuasion, film rhetoric, and narrative design as social-impact infrastructure for learning communities.
Real-time visualization of 100 Starlink satellite positions, interference modeling, and fitness-based orbital optimization using D3 force simulation and React.