CaribLab / Jamaica
TO WHERE WE REPAIR
CaribLab is a Caribbean research and design collective developing spatial, ecological, cultural, and institutional experiments concerned with how Caribbean societies build collective capacities under the conditions produced by colonialism, structural adjustment, uneven development, and climate vulnerability.
Programs
01
Projects
Site-based research and design projects developed with communities, institutions, organizations, and landholders.
02
Studios
Collaborative university studios, field schools, workshops, and student research involving Caribbean and international institutions.
03
Groundings
Gatherings that bring together, farmers, artists, researchers, designers, ecologists, and community practitioners around concrete Caribbean problems.
04
Editions
Publications, maps, atlases, films, field documents, and other forms through which CaribLab’s research circulates, and from which the collective develops.
2026–2029 Trod
2026–2027
Research + Formation. Kenyatta Atlas, Founding Collective, CaribLab Grounding 01.
2027–2028
Design + Experimentation. CaribLab Studios, Kenyatta design scenarios, Research prototypes, Grounding 02.
2028–2029
Expansion + Institutionalization. CaribLab Commission 02, Evaluation, Publications, External partnerships, Grounding 03.
COLLABORATE
We invite researchers, designers, and practitioners to join our collective inquiry. Together, we explore the material possibilities of Caribbean landscapes and institutions.