ONGOING PROJECTS


2024 Material Lab Prize Online Exhibition

View all of this years' submissions here.

 

2023 Material Lab Prize Online Exhibition

View all of this years' submissions here.

 

A Look at the Material Lab Prize Exhibition

Highlights from the 2022 Material Lab Prize, Sept. 26 - Oct. 14, 2022

 

NEW IN THE LAB: THE TEXTILE DYE GARDEN 2021 SwATCH BOOK

Sarah Burry (MSLIS/MA History of Art and Design ’23) interviews Ana Codorean (MA Art and Design Education ‘22) about the Material Lab’s latest acquisition.

 
 

Danielle Pelletier (MArch’23) investigates the significance of cardboard used in the Cardboard Cathedral to find broader meaning about the role of unconventional building materials in a future shaped by climate crisis.

CARDBOARD CATHEDRAL

 
 

A Conversation with Alumna Shamika Khare

Robin Smith (MArch ‘23) catches up with Material Lab alumna Shamika Khare (MArch ‘20) who has recently began working at Opal Architecture in Belfast, Maine

 
 

Ana Mandalay (MFA, Interior Design ’21) and Emily Gordin (MID ’22) have some ideas to avoid contributing to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch while giving gifts this year…

Holiday gift guide

 
 

MATERIAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES

Dhruv Mishra (MID, ’22) explores a methodology for reading spaces

 
 

SUMMER READING: POISONOUS PIGMENTs

Anna Flinchbaugh (MSLIS/MA History of Art and Design ’21) reviews Lucinda Hawksley’s Bitten by Witch Fever: Wallpaper & Arsenic in the Victorian Home

 
 

THE IMMATERIAL LAB

The Material Lab's summer studio visits go virtual with a series of (net)work-from-home conversations.