EARLY LAB

Early Lab is an early-stage design practice supporting social innovation through the capacities that get activated when people make things together... Our approach is informed by the particular conditions of local settings. Through Early Lab, design students get to experience being and working in the place: in the place where the social challenge is active, in the place where people endure the challenge every day, and they get to work with those people (not for them), where they are... Early Lab employs a co-design process fuelled by conversation tools made jointly by project stakeholders and Early Lab's team of design students. These are empathy tools: vibrant physical objects rendering ideas and scenarios much more tangibly than words alone. Local capacities get activated when people make things together.