ONE Lab Information

The One Lab (1L) is an urban non-profit group involved in research and education. 1L professes a new awakening in the power and role of designing with technology in urban areas. We have uncovered a necessity for an independent, interdisciplinary think tank, or pedagogical "silo breaker zone," in which to inquire, rouse, debate, conduct experiments, and rethink the potential of humanity at all scales. We do not see design and technology belonging to any individual mindset; instead we envision design to be totalizing, comprehensive, and global in reach. We search for harmonized global and local solutions that can open the sociopolitical borders that all too often separate design from people. The overreaching aim is to develop a language of technological design that can create proximity between individual responsibility and the current global environmental crisis. We perceive environmental problems as an issue of human alienation from the natural world, and our initiative will explore ways in which design can reformat this separation. Innovation, for us, is the answer to sustainable cities and eco-systems.