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[Research Labs & Centres](/index%2Ephp/markdownify/node/213) ![](/sites/default/files/styles/header_medium_desktop/public/assets/media/Use%20this%20photo%20Aga%20Kham%20research.jpeg.webp?itok=KaanPId8) Explore - [Overview](/index%2Ephp/research-and-innovation/research-projects-labs) - [Global Centre for Climate Action](/index%2Ephp/research-and-innovation/research-labs-centres/global-centre-climate-action) - [Inclusive Design Research Centre](https://idrc.ocadu.ca/) # Research Labs & Centres Explore - [Overview](/index%2Ephp/research-and-innovation/research-projects-labs) - [Global Centre for Climate Action](/index%2Ephp/research-and-innovation/research-labs-centres/global-centre-climate-action) - [Inclusive Design Research Centre](https://idrc.ocadu.ca/) rgb(0,0,0) ### 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. ![](/themes/custom/ocad/img/decor/ripped-paper-whitebg.png) rgb(255,255,255) ## Labs and centres ### [Global Centre for Climate Action](/index%2Ephp/research-and-innovation/research-labs-centres/global-centre-climate-action) [ ![GCCA Project](/sites/default/files/styles/4_3_small/public/2024-10/gcca_0.jpg.webp?itok=AFNj28b8)](/index%2Ephp/research-and-innovation/research-labs-centres/global-centre-climate-action) [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](/index%2Ephp/research-and-innovation/research-labs-centres/global-centre-climate-action) [Learn More](/index%2Ephp/research-and-innovation/research-labs-centres/global-centre-climate-action) ### [Health Design Studio](https://research.ocaduwebspace.ca/research/healthdesign/home.html) [ ![Health Design Studio logo](/sites/default/files/styles/4_3_small/public/2024-07/Health%20Design%20Studio.jpg.webp?itok=q3iQg5hS)](https://research.ocaduwebspace.ca/research/healthdesign/home.html) [The Health Design Studio at OCADU works to bring an inclusive and interdisciplinary design approach to healthcare design challenges.](https://research.ocaduwebspace.ca/research/healthdesign/home.html) [Learn More](https://research.ocaduwebspace.ca/research/healthdesign/home.html) ### [Inclusive Design Research Centre](https://idrc.ocadu.ca/) [ ![inclusive design research centre](/sites/default/files/styles/4_3_small/public/2024-07/Inclusive%20Design%20Research%20Centre.png.webp?itok=NsxfatLY)](https://idrc.ocadu.ca/) [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. ](https://idrc.ocadu.ca/) [Learn More](https://idrc.ocadu.ca/) ### [Adaptive Context Environments](https://sites.google.com/view/theacelab/home?authuser=0) [ ![The globe, continents and people are connected with glowing blue lines, like a network.](/sites/default/files/styles/4_3_small/public/2024-07/Adaptive%20Context%20Environments.png.webp?itok=fU2hUB3l)](https://sites.google.com/view/theacelab/home?authuser=0) [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. ](https://sites.google.com/view/theacelab/home?authuser=0) [Learn More](https://sites.google.com/view/theacelab/home?authuser=0) ### [Ambient Experience Lab](https://research.ocaduwebspace.ca/research/ambientexperiencelab/home.html) [ ![Ambient Experience Lab logo](/sites/default/files/styles/4_3_small/public/2024-07/Ambient%20Experience%20Lab.jpg.webp?itok=80JWrGVz)](https://research.ocaduwebspace.ca/research/ambientexperiencelab/home.html) [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.](https://research.ocaduwebspace.ca/research/ambientexperiencelab/home.html) [Learn More](https://research.ocaduwebspace.ca/research/ambientexperiencelab/home.html) ### [Data Materialization Studio](https://research.ocaduwebspace.ca/research/datamaterialization/home.html) [ ![Data Materialization Studio logo](/sites/default/files/styles/4_3_small/public/2024-07/Data%20Materialization%20Studio.jpg.webp?itok=fbmqMZBH)](https://research.ocaduwebspace.ca/research/datamaterialization/home.html) [The Data Materialization Studio conducts research into the affective, aesthetic and theoretical implications of emerging modes of data materialization.](https://research.ocaduwebspace.ca/research/datamaterialization/home.html) [Learn More](https://research.ocaduwebspace.ca/research/datamaterialization/home.html) ### [game:play lab](https://www.gameplaylab.ca/) [ ![game:play lab logo](/sites/default/files/styles/4_3_small/public/2024-07/game-play%20lab.jpg.webp?itok=1W4bLVHn)](https://www.gameplaylab.ca/) [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.](https://www.gameplaylab.ca/) [Learn More](https://www.gameplaylab.ca/) ### [Interactive Futures Lab](https://research.ocaduwebspace.ca/research/ifl/home.html) [ ![Interactive Futures Lab](/sites/default/files/styles/4_3_small/public/2024-07/Interactive%20Futures%20Lab.jpg.webp?itok=7-WwfaMy)](https://research.ocaduwebspace.ca/research/ifl/home.html) [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. ](https://research.ocaduwebspace.ca/research/ifl/home.html) [Learn More](https://research.ocaduwebspace.ca/research/ifl/home.html) ### [INVC Research Centre](https://research.ocaduwebspace.ca/research/invcresearch/home.html) [ ![INVC Research Centre logo](/sites/default/files/styles/4_3_small/public/2024-07/INVC%20Research%20Centre.jpg.webp?itok=u7u9_IXx)](https://research.ocaduwebspace.ca/research/invcresearch/home.html) [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.](https://research.ocaduwebspace.ca/research/invcresearch/home.html) [Learn More](https://research.ocaduwebspace.ca/research/invcresearch/home.html) ### [Mobile Experience Innovation Centre](https://research.ocaduwebspace.ca/research/meic/home.html) [ ![Mobile Experience Innovation Centre](/sites/default/files/styles/4_3_small/public/2024-07/Mobile%20Experience%20Innovation%20Centre.jpg.webp?itok=MHCjB9S0)](https://research.ocaduwebspace.ca/research/meic/home.html) [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. ](https://research.ocaduwebspace.ca/research/meic/home.html) [Learn More](https://research.ocaduwebspace.ca/research/meic/home.html) ### [Mobile Experience Lab](https://research.ocaduwebspace.ca/research/mobilelab/home.html) [ ![Mobile Experience Lab logo](/sites/default/files/styles/4_3_small/public/2024-07/Mobile%20Experience%20Lab.jpg.webp?itok=LdP-Sh57)](https://research.ocaduwebspace.ca/research/mobilelab/home.html) [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](https://research.ocaduwebspace.ca/research/mobilelab/home.html) [Learn More](https://research.ocaduwebspace.ca/research/mobilelab/home.html) ### [Perceptual Artifacts Lab](https://perceptualartifacts.net/) [ ![The Perceptual Artifacts Lab (PAL)](/sites/default/files/styles/4_3_small/public/2025-06/hero_1_2.png.webp?itok=La2KF_Jz)](https://perceptualartifacts.net/) [The Perceptual Artifacts Lab (PAL) is a group of designers, artists, scientists, engineers, social scientists, entrepreneurs, and beyond who seek to understand how diverse perspectives and capabilities interact with interfaces and design](https://perceptualartifacts.net/) [Learn More](https://perceptualartifacts.net/) ### [Phase Lab](https://research.ocaduwebspace.ca/research/phaselab/home.html) [ ![Phase Lab logo](/sites/default/files/styles/4_3_small/public/2024-07/Phase%20Lab.jpg.webp?itok=R9nfIc9n)](https://research.ocaduwebspace.ca/research/phaselab/home.html) [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. ](https://research.ocaduwebspace.ca/research/phaselab/home.html) [Learn More](https://research.ocaduwebspace.ca/research/phaselab/home.html) ### [Resilience Design](https://resiliencedesignlab.com) [ ![Resilience Design logo](/sites/default/files/styles/4_3_small/public/2024-07/Resilience%20Design.png.webp?itok=8Iw3FOBZ)](https://resiliencedesignlab.com) [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](https://resiliencedesignlab.com) [Learn More](https://resiliencedesignlab.com) ### [sLab](https://slab.ocadu.ca/) [ ![S lab logo](/sites/default/files/styles/4_3_small/public/2024-07/slab-logo.png.webp?itok=j8ho9VuD)](https://slab.ocadu.ca/) [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 ](https://slab.ocadu.ca/) [Learn More](https://slab.ocadu.ca/) ### [Social Body Lab](http://socialbodylab.com/) [ ![Social Body Club Logo](/sites/default/files/styles/4_3_small/public/2024-07/Social%20Body%20Club.jpg.webp?itok=PB3M7I2p)](http://socialbodylab.com/) [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.](http://socialbodylab.com/) [Learn More](http://socialbodylab.com/) ### [Super Ordinary Lab](https://research.ocaduwebspace.ca/research/superordinary/home.html) [ ![Super Ordinary Lab logo](/sites/default/files/styles/4_3_small/public/2024-07/Super%20Ordinary%20Lab.jpg.webp?itok=ZYZq5IPK)](https://research.ocaduwebspace.ca/research/superordinary/home.html) [The Super Ordinary Lab looks at near to market or just-in market technologies to understand their social significance and potentialities.](https://research.ocaduwebspace.ca/research/superordinary/home.html) [Learn More](https://research.ocaduwebspace.ca/research/superordinary/home.html) ### [SymBiological Lab](https://research.ocaduwebspace.ca/research/sbl/home.html) [ ![SymBiological Lab logo](/sites/default/files/styles/4_3_small/public/2024-07/SymBiological%20Lab.jpg.webp?itok=dmcfzXu3)](https://research.ocaduwebspace.ca/research/sbl/home.html) [This research project is designing passive solar heated greenhouses to allow winter urban agriculture without carbon dioxide emissions from heating. ](https://research.ocaduwebspace.ca/research/sbl/home.html) [Learn More](https://research.ocaduwebspace.ca/research/sbl/home.html) ### [systemCity](https://research.ocaduwebspace.ca/research/systemcity/home.html) [ ![systemCity logo](/sites/default/files/styles/4_3_small/public/2024-07/systemCity.jpg.webp?itok=DHU7baPx)](https://research.ocaduwebspace.ca/research/systemcity/home.html) [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](https://research.ocaduwebspace.ca/research/systemcity/home.html) [Learn More](https://research.ocaduwebspace.ca/research/systemcity/home.html) ### [Visual Analytics Lab](https://research.ocaduwebspace.ca/research/val/home.html) [ ![Visual Analytics Lab logo](/sites/default/files/styles/4_3_small/public/2024-07/Visual%20Analytics%20Lab.jpg.webp?itok=FCiAYdHz)](https://research.ocaduwebspace.ca/research/val/home.html) [The Visual Analytics Lab (VAL) is focused on innovation and training in information, scientific visualizations and visual analytics.](https://research.ocaduwebspace.ca/research/val/home.html) [Learn More](https://research.ocaduwebspace.ca/research/val/home.html) ![](/themes/custom/ocad/img/decor/ripped-paper-whitebg.png) rgb(0,0,0) ## Research projects *2020-2024* rgb(0,0,0) ### OCADU: Open WebXR Studios for Collaboration, Exhibition and Critique [ Read more .arrow-link-long { fill: #000; } ](https://research.ocaduwebspace.ca/research/jdoyle/project/ocadu-open-webxr-studios-for-collaboration-exhibition-and-critique.html) ![Yellow abstract art](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_medium/public/2024-10/Screenshot%202024-10-24%20at%204.52.39%E2%80%AFPM.png.webp?itok=d6pHVXKb) ### Decrypting the Medium: A Report on the NFT Market [ Read more .arrow-link-long { fill: #000; } ](https://research.ocaduwebspace.ca/research/superordinary/project/decrypting-the-medium-a-report-on-the-nft-market.html) ![OCAD U](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_medium/public/2024-10/Screenshot%202024-10-24%20at%204.54.42%E2%80%AFPM.png.webp?itok=l-Z1r9w4) ### Mushkeke uhkeeng/ Hampi Wiñachiq Pacha / Pohã ñana / Where the Medicine Grows [ Read more .arrow-link-long { fill: #000; } ](https://research.ocaduwebspace.ca/research/dmcintosh/project/grows.html) ![Photo of foliage ](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_medium/public/2024-10/Screenshot%202024-10-24%20at%204.55.27%E2%80%AFPM.png.webp?itok=vjnOFAEz) rgb(0,0,0) ### Qosqo Llika [ Read more .arrow-link-long { fill: #000; } ](https://research.ocaduwebspace.ca/research/dmcintosh/project/qosqo-llika.html) ![Qosqo](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_medium/public/2024-10/Qosqo%2001.png.webp?itok=jDDohn_j) ### 113Research [ Read more .arrow-link-long { fill: #000; } ](https://research.ocaduwebspace.ca/research/ppatterson/project/113research.html) ![113 Research](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_medium/public/2024-10/Screenshot%202024-10-24%20at%204.57.46%E2%80%AFPM.png.webp?itok=wj-ntP_X) ### Research in/on Making and Teaching in the Time of COVID [ Read more .arrow-link-long { fill: #000; } ](https://research.ocaduwebspace.ca/research/ppatterson/project/research-inon-making-and-teaching-in-the-time-of-covid.html) ![Image of a park](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_medium/public/2024-10/Screenshot%202024-10-24%20at%204.58.12%E2%80%AFPM.png.webp?itok=1PLLr3ST) rgb(0,0,0) ### Postcommodity: Time Holds All the Answers [ Read more .arrow-link-long { fill: #000; } ](https://research.ocaduwebspace.ca/research/gmcmaster/project/postcommodity-time-holds-all-the-answers.html) ![Image of barrels](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_medium/public/2024-10/Screenshot%202024-10-24%20at%204.59.07%E2%80%AFPM.png.webp?itok=C1WXZew8) ### Sustainable Development and Electrification of Transit [ Read more .arrow-link-long { fill: #000; } ](https://research.ocaduwebspace.ca/research/val/project/sustainable-development-and-electrification-of-transit.html) ![Poster](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_medium/public/2024-10/Screenshot%202024-10-24%20at%204.59.41%E2%80%AFPM.png.webp?itok=lCk2LAxK) ### Philippine-Canada Diasporic Sustainable Entanglements [ Read more .arrow-link-long { fill: #000; } ](https://research.ocaduwebspace.ca/research/lmilgram/project/philippine-canada-diasporic-sustainable-entanglements.html) ![Packaged food on a table](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_medium/public/2024-10/Screenshot%202024-10-24%20at%205.00.18%E2%80%AFPM.png.webp?itok=6UHUeNDo) rgb(0,0,0) ### Women and the Transnational Trade of Contemporary Philippine Textiles [ Read more .arrow-link-long { fill: #000; } ](https://research.ocaduwebspace.ca/research/lmilgram/project/women-and-the-transnational-trade-of-contemporary-philippine-textiles.html) ![People working in a workshop](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_medium/public/2024-10/Screenshot%202024-10-24%20at%205.01.09%E2%80%AFPM.png.webp?itok=nXXCXW7E) ### Social Entrepreneurship and the Arabica Coffee Industry in the Northern Philippines [ Read more .arrow-link-long { fill: #000; } ](https://research.ocaduwebspace.ca/research/lmilgram/project/social-entrepreneurship-and-the-arabica-coffee-industry-in-the-northern.html) ![Person working at a machine outdoors](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_medium/public/2024-10/Screenshot%202024-10-24%20at%205.02.02%E2%80%AFPM.png.webp?itok=021_IAyZ) ### Sharing Stories of Making Community Places, Youth Initiatives & Leadership: DM2020 x RXYM [ Read more .arrow-link-long { fill: #000; } ](https://research.ocaduwebspace.ca/research/cgiraudy/project/sharing-stories-of-making-community-places-youth-initiatives-leadership.html) ![Poster](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_medium/public/2024-10/Screenshot%202024-10-24%20at%205.02.42%E2%80%AFPM.png.webp?itok=44KfQDXa)