Following is a partial list of projects that inspire us and that we hope will inspire your understanding of what we call "slow design." Some of these projects are our own, others have influenced the organization's thinking and programming. The projects are grouped according to the guiding principles of slow design that slowLab has arrived at after much reflection, dialogue and iteration: Reveal, Expand, Reflect, Engage, Participate, Evolve.

To read more about our slow design principles, look here >

> Reveal / Expand

Amazingness by Anna Hillman

Architecture of Subtraction by Karmen Franinovic

Capturing Traces by dunne+raby

endcommercial by Luca Pizzaroni and SBA

Media Portrait of the Liberties by Valentina Nisi

Memory of the City by Sascha Pohflepp

Ooz by Natalie Jeremijenko

ParaSITE by Michael Rakowitz

Pictures, Maps, Shadows by Leslie Grant

Roden Crater Project by James Turrell

Slow Rider by Olivier Peyricot

Slow Ways of Knowing by slowLab

Tree by Simon Heijdens

> Reflect / Engage

Broken White by Simon Heijdens

Chandelier by Katrin Svana Eyþórsdóttir

Human Chair by Martin Ruiz de Azua

Life is Suite by Raw Nerve Ltd

Living with Things by Monika Hoinkis

60 Minutes by Alastair Fuad Luke

Slow Clock by Thorunn Arnadottir

slowMail by CF Strauss and Julian Bleecker

Slow Water by Cranbrook 3D design students

Time in Textile by Marie Ilse Bourlanges

Tyranny of the Plug by Dick van Hoff

Urban Moth by LoooLo Textiles

Vesta Convivial Kitchen by Jeff Sturges

> Participate / Evolve

Alabama Chanin by Natalie Chanin

Body Weather Farm by Min Tanaka

Building Lightness by Lightness Studio

Eco-Cathedral by Louis Le Roy

Edible Estates by Fritz Haeg

Emotion/Sensory Mapping by Christian Nold

Highline Redesign by CJ Bribach and CF Strauss

Rural Studio by Mockbee et al, Auburn University

Sustainable Everyday by E. Manzini and F. Jegou

ThinkCycle by MIT Media Lab

Warm Relationships by Judith van den Boom

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