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Research Labs & Centres

Explore OCAD University's Research Labs and Projects and Labs page to discover our ongoing research initiatives, collaborative projects, and dedicated labs. Delve into the work that supports our contributions to art, design, and technology.

Labs and centres

Research Labs

Global Centre for Climate Action

GCCA Project

The Global Centre for Climate Action (GCCA) is a research centre at OCAD University that draws on creative vision, sustainable design, and artistic practice to imagine new approaches to sustainability, climate justice, and decolonization

Health Design Studio

The Health Design Studio at OCADU works to bring an inclusive and interdisciplinary design approach to healthcare design challenges.

Inclusive Design Research Centre

inclusive design research centre

An international community of open source developers, designers, researchers, educators and co-designers who work together to proactively ensure that emerging technology and practices are designed inclusively.

Adaptive Context Environments

The globe, continents and people are connected with glowing blue lines, like a network.

The ACE lab aims to transform the way we interact with information, each other, and the world around us through mixed reality, artificial intelligence, and the Internet-of-Things.

Ambient Experience Lab

Ambient Experience Design research is based on a deep understanding of the values, needs and cultures of end-users, integrating technology and architectural qualities into multi sensorial experiences that evolve over time and space.

Data Materialization Studio

The Data Materialization Studio conducts research into the affective, aesthetic and theoretical implications of emerging modes of data materialization.

game:play lab

Play is a core human function. Play is the way we become self-conscious; playing with fingers and toes, with cause and effect. Play is the first way we learn. Play is the way we place ourselves in society through playground games.

Interactive Futures Lab

Interactive Futures Lab

Interactive Futures Lab is an interdisciplinary group at OCAD University in Toronto. This research group is focused on the design and use of technologies for creating meaningful physical and tangible user experiences.

INVC Research Centre

INVC Research's goal is to link the global common network and discourse of "the other" in relation to the West. This involves creating a comprehensive bibliography of exhibitions and critical essays.

Mobile Experience Innovation Centre

Mobile Experience Innovation Centre

The Mobile Experience Innovation Centre is a not-for-profit association that supports design leadership, experience innovation and applied research in Canada's mobile and wireless industries.

Mobile Experience Lab

The Mobile Experience Lab supports creative research into the social and cultural relations embodied in personal media technology, including individual creative expression; health, wellness and empowerment; assistive and augmentative sup

Phase Lab

The PHASE Research Lab Strives to augment human perception with technology through the creation of interactive 3D environments that allow users to explore a hybrid of digital and physical spaces.

Resilience Design

The Resilience Design Lab (rLab) takes a holistic approach to strengthening the resilience of organizations and communities.It aspires at supporting intrapreneurs (those working to bring change from the inside) with new tools and methods

sLab

sLab (Strategic Innovation Lab) is a centre for participatory foresight, systemic design research, and social innovation in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. We are design, business and policy professionals, teachers & students: a community

Social Body Lab

Social Body Lab takes the human body as a starting point from which to consider how humans interface with and relate to the world around them.

Super Ordinary Lab

The Super Ordinary Lab looks at near to market or just-in market technologies to understand their social significance and potentialities.

SymBiological Lab

This research project is designing passive solar heated greenhouses to allow winter urban agriculture without carbon dioxide emissions from heating.

systemCity

System City's research areas encompass topics like mapping urban ecologies, affordable housing strategies, alternate dwelling approaches, transient communities, resilient cities, urban farming, regenerative ecosystems, green transpo

Visual Analytics Lab

The Visual Analytics Lab (VAL) is focused on innovation and training in information, scientific visualizations and visual analytics.

Research projects

2020-2024

OCADU: Open WebXR Studios for Collaboration, Exhibition and Critique

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Decrypting the Medium: A Report on the NFT Market

OCAD U

Mushkeke uhkeeng/ Hampi Wiñachiq Pacha / Pohã ñana / Where the Medicine Grows

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Qosqo Llika

Qosqo

113Research

113 Research

Research in/on Making and Teaching in the Time of COVID

Image of a park

Postcommodity: Time Holds All the Answers

Image of barrels

Sustainable Development and Electrification of Transit

Poster

Philippine-Canada Diasporic Sustainable Entanglements

Packaged food on a table

Women and the Transnational Trade of Contemporary Philippine Textiles

People working in a workshop

Social Entrepreneurship and the Arabica Coffee Industry in the Northern Philippines

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Sharing Stories of Making Community Places, Youth Initiatives & Leadership: DM2020 x RXYM

Poster