Social Lab is part investigation, part experimentation and part playground. We believe that there is a new participatory paradigm emerging where a new practice is needed for both citizens and professionals, which we are calling the Creative Collaborative paradigm. Social Lab recognises that this new practice cannot be surfaced, understood and spread without a great deal of collaboration and openness. This is our new space for collaborating with people from varying disciplines to understand and spread creative community culture. We connect with innovative people and organisations around the globe, to share practise, test new ideas, research community projects, and create tools and techniques.

And we keep our feet on the ground and make ideas more tangible and experiential by running various practical events and activities ourselves. From hosting a PieLab, to launching a Trade School to developing hybrid mapping methodologies through MapLab…..

Social Spaces Studios is where we put the knowledge, experiences and tools developed and tested in the Social Lab into wider practice, to help develop creative and collaborative work.

We believe that there is a new participatory paradigm emerging where a new practice is needed for both citizens and professionals, which we are calling the Creative Collaborative paradigm.

Social Spaces Studios work as a partnership, currently comprising of Tessy Britton, Laura Billings and Maurice Specht, working predominantly in the UK and The Netherlands … but also able to work worldwide.