Created in 2007, the EPFL+ECAL Lab is an innovation lab in Lausanne, located in the ECAL building of the University of Art and Design Lausanne, and belonging to the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL).

It aims to explore the potential of emerging technologies through design research:

“The main question for media innovation is how we can transform these new technologies into convincing experiences for the user,” says Nicolas Henchoz, director of the EPFL-ECAL Lab.

“We tend to reduce innovation to technological performance – increased speed and increased functionality – and forget about how to make sense of them.”

Read the full article on media-innovation.news.

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This is one of the cases collected as part ofthe ongoing Media Innovation Mapping project, a collaboration between WAN-IFRA’s Global Alliance for Media Innovation and the Media Innovation Studio at UCLan. 

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