KINEMA '26
The annual MArch welcome fabrication workshop, remade for the launch of the Immersive Experience Lab. Around 100 students, ten teams, one week of making — and a red-carpet premiere.
KINEMA '26 is the first project of the MArch year and the flagship of the IEL launch. Students transform materials by hand — machining, casting, shaping, printing — then transform them again, capturing and re-presenting the work as apparently habitable spaces on the Lab's immersive volume and its 43-channel sound system. In microcosm, and creatively, that is exactly what architects do: choose materials and processes whose transformations make spaces people experience. The week runs two tracks in parallel, making and media, and ends with a black-tie premiere on Friday 18 September 2026.
KINEMA situates material transformation within the UN SDGs — students evaluate the origins, manufacture, and sustainable-development implications of their materials, from responsible production to the built environment.
The project,
in full
A short, illustrated introduction to KINEMA '26 — the concept, the week, and the premiere, in the CAT LAB house style.
Read it as a page, or present it fullscreen for the room.