Welcome to affect lab, an award winning creative studio and research practice.

In collaboration with an international artistic network, we use immersive storytelling, design research and experimental field work to inspire a more inclusive future.

 

Bloody Beautiful

A movement for normalising conversations about menstruation & menopause.

A City Eating Itself (in less than 10 minutes)

A neighbourhood-based project about the influence of flash delivery services on social cohesion.

Requiem for the Impossible

An interactive musical performance exploring feelings of ambiguous loss.

Waiting for Cows

A cinematic meditation on the relationship between humans, animals and technology.

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A creative intervention using generative AI to explore democratic approaches to image making.

Toolkit for the Inbetween

A knowledge-base of frameworks, tips & inspiration to future proof the creative sector.

Good Neighbours

An award-winning immersive storytelling project about the impact of surveillance technology on social cohesion in neighbourhoods.

How to Tell a Herstory

Opening space for migration stories from the margins to be heard, told by women in conversation with machine learning.

Weaving Spaces

Translating digital data into knitting to visualise a shared experience.

Metaverses Cha-Cha-Cha Dance Party

A dance experiment with online & on-site audiences to explore human connection in the metaverse.

{Paradise in the Sun}

A sensory audio experience celebrating the power of gardens as spaces of inclusion and diversity.

Counter Consideration

A playful location-based experience that explores the radical creativity of African artists and the importance of the oral tradition.

 STRP Virtual Guide

A bespoke digital tour guide developed for the online exhibition space of the STRP festival 2021.

Hybrid Spaces

Researching the intimate connections between online and physical audiences through gossip and dance experiments.

Miraculous Futures

Speculative world-building as a tool for re-thinking and re-imagining our existing global society.

WE DARE

Mapping online conversations about gender-based violence in South Africa.

Take Care 1012

Mapping the changing sensory landscape of Amsterdam’s Red Light District during a lockdown.

NXT Museum Educational Programme

Digital crafting, creative coding and interactive storytelling using everyday augmented reality tools.