Slow Lloyd was a design research project in the Eastern Docklands area of Amsterdam, exploring the Slow creative potentials of the historic Lloyd Hotel and the locality surrounding it.

Over the course of two years, slowLab collaborated with hundreds of designers, architects, urban planners, artists, environmental technologists, social innovators, and local community members, all of whom applied our Slow design principles to research and redraw the material, spatial, social, sensory, and temporal expressions of this local system.

The program was officially closed in June 2012, but the effects stand to last for many years to come. You can learn and see a lot more via the online program archive HERE >

What is Slow design? >

May 2013 > Can people (and the planet) afford *not* to have Slow design knowledge??? We're raising money on IndieGogo to develop the SLOW DESIGN KNOWLEDGE PLATFORM: a dynamic educational platform that will collect, connect and amplify an inspiring spectrum of Slow design knowledge. From Slowing tools for civic engagment to strategies of Slow urbanism, this platform will take the Slow design movement to the next level. LOOK > Please watch our video, support the project and share our campaign with others >>

Have you seen slowLab's new organizational page on Facebook? We regularly post Slow design knowledge highlights there, and we're also using that space to encourage critical thinking and dialogue about the roles and responsibilities of social media today. Take a look here>> You can see this page whether of not your are a member of Facebook.