The Lab: Creativity and Culture

by David Edwards

The Lab explains the idea of the “culture lab,” Edwards’ concept for experimental art and design centers like those he recently founded in Paris and at Harvard. He presents the lab as a new kind of educational art studio based on a contemporary science lab model, and he shows how students learn by translating ideas alongside experienced creators by exhibiting risky experimental processes in gallery settings.

224 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 31, 2010

About the author

David Edwards is a creator, writer, and educator. He teaches at Harvard University and is founder of Le Laboratoire in Paris, France and Cambridge, MA. His work, which spans the arts and sciences, has been featured prominently in the international media, and is at the core of the international artscience movement. He lives with his wife and their three sons in Boston.

Reviews

[Gerard Brown · Rating 2 out of 5]

Kind of not well written...a lot of "we did this, then this happened, then another thing" without a clear structure. Still, it's sort of exciting to read about the way the laboratory and the studio are converging in some people's work, and to imagine how it might happen in one's own...