The University of Westminster's campus-wide home for creative and advanced technology. The tools reserved for specialists, open to everyone.
We democratise creative and advanced technology: the powerful tools usually reserved for specialists, made accessible to everyone.
Academic-led: run by academics and technologists as one team, with learning built into the fabric of the Lab. User-centred, community-focused.
The frontier for emerging technology, immersion, spatial computing, simulation, visualisation, alongside the full spectrum of creative and fabrication technologies, all under one roof and one model.
Not a makerspace, not a production studio. A third kind of space, where everyone on campus can learn to put advanced technology to work.
A materials library anyone on campus can touch, test, and learn from. We democratise the powerful tools usually reserved for specialists, and make them accessible to everyone.
Run by academics and technologists working as one team, with learning built into the fabric of the Lab. The role that makes the model work was developed here.
Spaces reaching across the Marylebone campus and, on the Lab's own terms, into the wider University. See what people put them to work on in the work.
Our flagship: the £2.9m Immersive Experience Lab, a world-class immersive space on the Marylebone Road, designed, built, and run by the Lab's own team. The first place to start exploring what our technology ecosystem can do.
The Lab's record, in miniature. A small selection of the projects, exhibitions, and festivals run with students and colleagues across the Marylebone campus.
Leadership, designed in space
The Lab’s festival of fabrication
Market data, made spatial
Small footprint, large ideas
Experience is one platform with many media. It lets anyone create and present immersive content in the IEL, with no specialist knowledge needed. It's in your hands.
Backed by the Office for Students. The IEL is recognised by RIBA as a world-class space, and the Lab has won many Quintin Hogg Trust grants over the years.
A member of the SHED Network, convened at MIT, placing the Lab among an international group of pioneering university spaces.
Built with industry: L-Acoustics, AVStumpfl, and Daikin among the key technology partners behind the Lab and the IEL.
The Lab is run by academics and technologists working as one team, many of them homegrown from Westminster's own graduates. The role that makes the model work was developed here.
The Lab is open to students and colleagues across the Marylebone campus, and reaches into the wider University on the Lab's own terms. Whether you want to book a space, bring a module into the IEL, or simply come and see what is possible, you are welcome.