Research Groups and Labs
Groups & Labs
Critical Landscapes Lab
A place for speculation on people and places. We engage with a myriad of pressing socio-ecological issues across the postcolonial and Islamic worlds where the design disciplines—and especially landscape architecture—can imagine better futures. 
Grinham Research Group
Grinham Research Group brings an intensely interdisciplinary approach to climate change and the built environment, connecting material science with building physics and design to examine questions on materiality, thermal health, and lifecycle carbon emissions.
Healthy Places Lab
The Healthy Places Lab links faculty and students at the GSD to other researchers focused on how to make places healthier in in the US and globally. 
Just City Lab
The Just City Lab investigates the ways design and planning contribute to conditions of justice and injustice in our cities. We believe design can repair injustice. We believe design must restore justice, especially that produced by its own hand. We believe in justice for Black Americans. We believe in justice for all marginalized people. We believe in a just city. 
Material Processes and Systems Group
MaP+S is a research unit that advances knowledge about materials in the built environment. 
Office for Urbanization
The Office for Urbanization addresses societal and cultural conditions associated with contemporary urbanization. It develops speculative and projective urban scenarios through research projects and imagines alternative and better futures through applied design research, aspiring to reduce the distance between design innovation and societal impact. 
Responsive Environments and Artifacts Lab
The Responsive Environments and Artifacts Lab (REAL) is a research lab that pursues the design of digital, virtual, and physical worlds as an indivisible whole. It recognizes the all-pervasive nature of digital information and interaction at scales ranging from our bodies to the larger urban contexts we occupy and the infrastructures that support them. 
Laboratory for Values in the Built Environment
The Laboratory for Values in the Built Environment (ViBE Lab) seeks to create knowledge that enables practitioners 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.
