OpenLab Collaborative Research Center, UCSC

Two people work in a creative studio, with one examining a complex, lace-up wearable structure while the other observes. A worktable holds colorful fabric, shoes, tools, and materials for designing and constructing wearable art.
The OpenLab website, its banner a crowded mosaic of faces, dozens of collaborators indoors and out, with a UC Santa Cruz tag tucked in one corner.
Name
OpenLab Collaborative Research Center, UCSC
Description
Shifting attention from machines toward people and ecosystems, this faculty-led center at UC Santa Cruz brings the arts, sciences, and technology together through research, exhibitions, talks, and events. Its projects ask how technology can serve the public good and address the planetary costs of unsustainable innovation.
Type
en Research Center
Founded
2010
Founder
Professor Jennifer Parker
Climate & Ecology Themes
Waste and E-waste
Concepts
Future Ecologies
More-than-Human Relations
Speculative Futures and Imagination
Methods & Approaches
Art and Science Collaboration
Public Programming
Discipline / Field
Arts & Design
Engineering & Technology
Natural Sciences
Interdisciplinary
Audience / Engagement
Public / General Audience
Academic / Research
Geographic Scope
International / Global
Location
Santa Cruz
Website
https://openlabresearch.com/about/
Current Status
Active
Item sets
California Art & Climate Archive
UC Santa Cruz
Media
Two people work in a creative studio, with one examining a complex, lace-up wearable structure while the other observes. A worktable holds colorful fabric, shoes, tools, and materials for designing and constructing wearable art.Jennifer Parker and Ellijah Dalley, OpenLab Collaborative Research Center
The OpenLab website, its banner a crowded mosaic of faces, dozens of collaborators indoors and out, with a UC Santa Cruz tag tucked in one corner.OpenLab Collaborative Research Center