Welcome to affect lab, a research practice and creative studio.

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

 
 

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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.

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.

Ctrl.Alt.Img

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

Waiting for Cows

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

Toolkit for the Inbetween

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

Requiem for the Impossible

An interactive musical performance exploring feelings of ambiguous loss.

Metaverses Cha-Cha-Cha Dance Party

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

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.

Hybrid Spaces

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