Create Custom Shelves for your Collections!
Deanna Gelosi will be traveling to CHI in Barcelona this May to present her project on generating custom shelving based on images of your special things.
News
- The Experimental Weaving Talk Series Returns Follow us on Instagram at @unstabledesignlab for updates
- New AdaCAD Update! Now with new operations, visuals, and color pages!
- Resistance: Digital Weaving to Save the World Created by Poppy DeltaDawn and the Unstable Design Lab is now available on the web
Upcoming Events
- Text+Textile+Technology Dartmouth College, February 16-17 Etta will be presenting!
- College Art Association Conference Chicago, February 18-21 Etta will Present Sampling: Experimentation through Material Play in the session on The Value of Play in the Creative Process. Steven is presenting We Make the Runway Ours: Fashioning Futures with LGBTQIA Youth, in the session on Dreamers and Schemers: On Trans* and Queer Worldbuilding
- CHI 2026 April 13-17 in Barcelona, Spain Deanna will present “Uniquely Shaped Spaces: Object-Driven Algorithmic Shelving Design and Fabrication”
Work in Progress
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Steven Frost
Is serving as the interim director of the lab and will be presenting at the College Art Association Conference as well as showing new work at East Window
Laura Devendorf
is on sabbatical until Fall 2026 but you can often find her lurking on the AdaCAD Discord
Eldy Lazaro
Successfully defended her dissertation Biodesign for Interactive Textiles: Dissolution as a Design Strategy for Interaction and Sustainability
Deanna Gelosi
Is tinkering on new AdaCAD operations and also exploring futures of generative shelving
Etta Sandry
is presenting new research at the College Art Association Conference and is also showing new print, weaving, and sculptural work at The Firehouse Art Center in Longmont Colorado.
