空间研究中心成立于2015年，是连接设计、建筑、城市主义、人文和数据科学的城市研究中心。它赞助围绕绘图、数据可视化、数据收集和数据分析等新技术的研究和课程活动。CSR专注于数据素养以及对“大数据”世界的质疑，致力于利用先进的设计工具开辟研究和探索的新领域，帮助学者、学生以及我们的合作者和观众了解世界各地的城市——过去、现在和未来。

研究中心的项目通常涉及与各种学科和机构的研究人员和倡导者合作，与他们合作，清晰，批判，负责任和挑衅地传达信息。研究中心致力于严格可靠的数据工作;利用最强大的设计和可视化技术;并对数据及其表示的局限性和意识形态进行批判性反思。基于设计，建筑和城市主义学科，与人文科学和科学建立联系，并将空间专业知识带入人文科学。

The Center for Spatial Research was established in 2015 as a hub for urban research that links design, architecture, urbanism, the humanities and data science. It sponsors research and curricular activities built around new technologies of mapping, data visualization, data collection, and data analysis. CSR focuses on data literacy as well as interrogating the world of 'big data,' working to open up new areas of research and inquiry with advanced design tools to help scholars, students as well as our collaborators and audiences, to understand cities worldwide – past present and future.

Our projects generally involve collaborations with researchers and advocates across a variety of disciplines and institutions, working with them to communicate information clearly, critically, responsibly, and provocatively. We are committed to rigorous and reliable work with data; to harnessing the most powerful techniques of design and visualization; and to a critical reflection on the limits and ideologies of both data and its representation. Based in the disciplines of design, architecture and urbanism we make links with and bring spatial expertise to humanities as well as the sciences.