The Laboratory for New Intermaterialities is a research and open-course format housed at the University of Arts Berlin. It serves as a space for workshops, experiments and enabler for collective engagement. 

Students are given the tools and context to mix critical masses, glues and lubricants to fill the gaps between technology, society and the matter which surrounds us. 

The founding of the Laboratory was motivated by the misalignment between contemporary design teaching and possible futures we are facing in society. Many developments such as the ongoing climate disaster or emergences of artificial intelligence remain unanswered mysteries which are at best explored on a superficial level, but at worst, our discipline remains ignorant to them.

However, Visual Communication is actually the perfect breeding ground for in depth investigations, analyzations and speculations. Familiar with the tools of story telling and communication, we are equipment with a variety of means to create positions and critical reflections. The Laboratory for New Intermaterialities is using this unique abilities and merges story telling with the medium of design: shaping matter, its properties and their narrative in order to fill the voids of our current understanding.

The Laboratory for New Intermaterialities is a research and open-course format housed at the University of Arts Berlin. It serves as a space for workshops, experiments and enabler for collective engagement. 

Students are given the tools and context to mix critical masses, glues and lubricants to fill the gaps between technology, society and the matter which surrounds us. 

The founding of the Laboratory was motivated by the misalignment between contemporary design teaching and possible futures we are facing in society. Many developments such as the ongoing climate disaster or emergences of artificial intelligence remain unanswered mysteries which are at best explored on a superficial level, but at worst, our discipline remains ignorant to them.

However, Visual Communication is actually the perfect breeding ground for in depth investigations, analyzations and speculations. Familiar with the tools of story telling and communication, we are equipment with a variety of means to create positions and critical reflections. The Laboratory for New Intermaterialities is using this unique abilities and merges story telling with the medium of design: shaping matter, its properties and their narrative in order to fill the voids of our current understanding.