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Pari Riahi was the co-recipient with Computer Scientists Narges Mahyar and Ali Sarvghad  of an ADVANCE Collaborative Research Seed Grants for 2020-2021 for a proposal titled: “MAPPING INSTABILITY: The Effects of the Pandemic on the Civic Life of a Small Town.” Their project investigates the impacts of the current pandemic on Amherst residents' civic lives, focusing on mobility, access to collective resources, sense of community, and social connectedness within the town's physical and architectural confines. It builds upon previous interdisciplinary collaboration that joins forces from Architecture and Computer Science disciplines, fusing research on adaptive reuse, digital civics, and visualization. The team will offer a new model for synergistic and synchronized gathering and transfer of data and its use as it is reflected back to civic society and the city's architectural and urban environment.