A home for research in the Laboratory for Values in the Built Environment

2024

Supernormal’s Elizabeth Bowie Christoforetti has started a lab at the Harvard Graduate School of Design to explore the ways in which technology can both understand and imagine architecture and our built environment in new ways. The Laboratory for Values in the Built Environment (ViBE Lab) seeks to create knowledge that enables practitioners in the built environment professions to design and plan our urbanizing world by defining and building upon values that are consistent with the development of meaningful and sustainable 21st century communities. This is a place for research that can be better supported by grant funding, but that is essential to delivering meaningful and values-driven design work at Supernormal. The ViBE Lab is part of the Laboratory for Design Technologies infrastructure at the GSD.