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Publications

Research Interests: Media Sociology, Civic Education, Social Movements, Visual Culture.

Potnis, Neil, "Beyond the Model Minority: Mediating Inheritance Through Visual Practice" (2026). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6368158.

  • Research: Social Movements, Visual Culture.

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Potnis, N., & Ben-Alon, L. (2024). "Earthen Builder Simulation: Representing Natural Materials and Embodied Carbon With Computational Play." Interaction Design & Architecture (s)–IxD&A Journal, (60), 0-0.  

  • Research: Media Sociology, Civic Education.​

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Guo, X., Potnis, N., Yu, M., Gillani, N., & Vosoughi, S. (2024). "The Computational Anatomy of Humility: Modeling Intellectual Humility in Online Public Discourse." In Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (pp. 5701-5723). 

  • Research: Media Sociology, Civic Education.​

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Potnis, Neil. “Frolic Pedagogy In a Post-Fröbel Era.” Undergraduate Honors Thesis. UT School of Design and Creative Technologies (2021).

  • Research: Visual Culture, Participatory Education.

Conferences & Talks

Potnis, N. (March 2025). “Digital Networks and Climate Change: A Social Network Analysis of Youth Political Movements in Delhi” Presented at the Comparative and International Education Society Conference.


Potnis, N. (January 2025). “Digital Networks and Climate Change: A Social Network Analysis of Youth Political Movements in Delhi” Presented at the  Teachers College Sustainability Projects Showcase. 

Exhibitions & Festivals

"Earthen Rituals" (Group Exhibition: Natural Materials Lab), Venice Biennale of Architecture, Venice, Italy, May–November 2025. Role: Computational Designer.

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“Echoes of Dissent” (Group Exhibition: Disruptve Studio), New York City, November 13-15, 2025. Role: Curatorial Lead.

 

"The Children of Dissent" (Short Film: Disruptve Studio), Justice Film Festival, New York City, February 2026. Role: Writer/Director.

Teaching

Human-Centered Design for Social Impact (2023) • Undergraduate Seminar at Columbia World Projects
Computational Drawing (2023) • Graduate Course at Columbia University GSAPP

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