Aléa Garden Lab
Aléa is launching a long term transdisciplinary applied research project for bio-inclusive* practices at Domaine de Boisbuchet.
The Aléa Garden Lab is an open air laboratory providing a space for immersed experimentation and development of reimagined processes with living systems in partnership with universities, collaborators and sponsors.
The Domaine, surrounded by a forest, pasture, a river, a lake, and an architectural park, provides an expansive outdoor laboratory for experimentation that integrates local biodiversity, community, resources and waste streams.
The Garden Lab will welcome participation from students and professionals of all fields, fostering collaboration and cooperation to reveal new fields of trans-disciplinary biomaterial research and applications.
Garden lab pavilion built from Mogu panels during Aléa workshop “Myco-fabrication” in partnership with Park Associati at Domaine de Boisbuchet 2024
Substrate mycelium material library during Aléa workshop “Nothing Really Matters” 2023 Photos by Andres Alejos CIRECA Domaine de Boisbuchet
*bio-inclusive: A term borrowed from the environmental philosopher Freya Mathews who uses it to reinstate the human as part of nature.