Description of project by Nacho Martín Asunción
Part 1.-
Who we are
IED Innovation Lab is a design playground for transformation projects. It's an ambitious venture imagined by IED (Istituto Europeo di Design) and made possible through the collaboration of many brilliant minds from diverse professional backgrounds.
The process of designing iil.
The idea of creating IED Innovation lab took shape in 2016 when we started thinking about the value that a heritage design institution like IED can bring, beyond providing education, to the global stage of design & innovation. The process of materialising this idea involved two different approaches:
- the hardware: designing and building the physical space of the lab (architecture and workspace design)
- the software: designing and formalising how the lab operates (people, processes and products)
Part 2.-
Design description - Our Hardware
Originally, the building was a furniture factory, then an industrial printing machines space. In the meantime, by night, there were illegal tango parties. Now it´s an innovation lab.
We have designed a MINIMUM VIABLE SPACE. An open strategy to admit a growing colonization of the structure. A playful framework designed to offer infinite possibilities of configuration and flexible temporalities. An architecture able to be reinvented depending on the scale of the projects and the complexity of the collaborations.
The outcome is a HIVE OF CO-CREATION. Its units propel the connection and friction between diverse disciplines, aesthetics and working protocols.
The architectural project has been designed and produced at IIL. Our FabLab has prototyped and set up the components. The elements are open source CNC panels where the cutting patterns become an ornament of the maker philosophy.
