About Broken City Lab

Broken City Lab exists as an interdisciplinary creative research group, with a small number of core research directors and a fluctuating group of research fellows. The Lab will engage in creative research that disrupts the city and community at a variety of levels through events and workshops that will entertain, provoke and, most importantly, educate. By reimagining existing conditions, the Lab will work to promote an open, sustainable, reclaimed public city space, and to make creative engagement the norm. The ultimate goal of each and every project will be to have the technology, tactic, or aesthetic copied and executed by someone else, thereby generating free and open knowledge.

Every idea, project, source-code, event, workshop, activity, presentation, paper, and image created within Broken City Lab will be thoroughly documented and distributed for free online. A crucial component of Broken City Lab is the website and accompanying blog, where members of the lab regularly post text, images, and video, and contribute to the spread of knowledge.

The Broken City is Windsor, Ontario—a city with a broken economy, broken environment, broken design, broken politics, and a broken heart. The Broken City is our city, and we want to fix it.