ABSTRACT
The multidisciplinary teams assembled to create applied media projects need space, technology, supplies, and human capital to succeed, and the pipelines for securing those resources are particularly limited in the humanities. This chapter describes contributors how they have managed to attain the needed resources for their projects, and what kinds of institutional homes they have found to house them. While doing applied media studies generally requires far fewer financial resources than doing applied science, issues of funding and sustainability nonetheless play a significant role in these projects. The funding resources supporting collaborative research projects have ranged from European ministries of culture to the National Science Foundation to the US State Department. The home for cross-disciplinary media projects has been the experimental lab Media, set up in many ways in order to house such projects. Upper-level university administrators should want to support collaborative, "applied" media studies projects.
