What if the principles of open-source design were applied to architecture and urbanism? If everyone could be a designer, how would design adapt? Joseph Grima, editor in chief of Domus, joined Lab Team...
On July 19, the Lab invited participants to question how well they know their trash. Most people may think they know what their trash looks like, but, really, most of it is hidden. To see what possibilities...
This video presents highlights from a talk by Lab Team member Carlo Ratti, director of MIT's SENSEable City Lab. Carlo discusses the fact that now, for the first time in history, the structures people...
This video presents Sidsel Birk Hjuler's talk, "The World's Most Bike-Friendly Cities," in which Hjuler discusses her project, the Copenhagenize Index. Copenhagen was used as an index in this project because,...
This video presents Berlin Lab Team member José Gómez-Márquez's vision of the Lab's purpose: "To look at the process of finding the answers to questions about the future of cities." As he sees it, the...
This video features the workshop "Foodscape Mapping," presented by Edible Geography's Nicola Twilley, who analyzed how maps inform and direct the way people move about their landscape—maps "tell you...
This video highlights the Raumtaktik workshop from the Lab's sixth week in Berlin. Raumtaktik, a design studio with an interest in the production of space, invited Lab participants to describe and think...
Architect Joseph Grima gives a talk on "Open-Source Architecture," a way of designing buildings and other objects that brings end users to the fore in the design process. This participatory approach conceives...