Malcolm McCullough is the author of Ambient Commons (2013, MIT Press), a widely-read book on information environmentalism; also Digital Ground (2004), which offered a theory of place for pervasive computing. and Abstracting Craft (1996), still a cult classic in digital making. McCullough has served on the Michigan faculty since 2001, and before that at Carnegie Mellon and for ten years at Harvard. He has lectured widely on urban computing and place-based interaction design. He teaches architecture studios as well as interdisciplinary courses on responsive surfaces and networked cities.