About
Founded in 2007, the EPFL+ECAL Lab is part of the EPFL Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, one of the top two research universities in mainland Europe (QS Ranking 2022). The lab’s mission is to perform innovation, education and research through design practice with emerging technologies.
With a transdisciplinary team of designers, engineers and cognitive scientists, it has developed a fully integrated methodology to move beyond a tech-driven world; it explores contexts and terrains, involves stakeholders, links research and society, builds prototypes and ultimately evaluates their emotional and cognitive impact on people.
Rooted in the culture of EPFL, the EPFL+ECAL Lab benefits from the university’s top-level infrastructures for supporting creativity, experimentation and prototyping.
Situated within the building of leading art and design school ECAL, the EPFL+ECAL Lab is immersed in creativity.