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METALAB is a laboratory for urban development

WHO WE ARE

METALAB — urban laboratory located in Ivano-Frankivsk. We focus on sustainability, community development, affordable housing, and product design. METALAB projects unite people with shared values around various processes and products. Then, our purpose is to facilitate these communities and help them on their way to building inclusive, sustainable, and comfortable living spaces.

Our current work centers on two projects: product design and makerspace POLE and CO-HATY, creating affordable housing for those who lost their homes due to the war.

CO-HATY

Co-Haty bed

POLE

SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS LABORATORY

NEW ECONOMY OF IVANO-FRANKIVSK (NEF)

CASSINI Hackathons #8

OPEN CALL! Покращення інфраструктури шелтерів

ANNA PASHYNSKA

Co-founder

ANNA DOBROVA

Co-founder

KSENIIA SEMENOVA

Operations Manager

MARYANA BARAN

Project manager

TANIA PASHYNSKA

Architect

YULIIA RUSYLO

Graphic designer

Nazar Dnes

Architect

Oleksii Sadovyi

Building manager

Maksym Darnostup

Procurement manager

“About the “Laboratory of Stable Materials” with Maryana Baran and Nazar Dnes”

“METALAB joins LINA as new member organisation”

“Magic lamps. What did the platform METALAB create from kombucha?”

“METALAB: city research laboratory in Ivano-Frankivsk”

““What do we have in common?” The Ukrainian pavilion at the Tbilisi Architecture Biennale”

Ukrainian Cultural Fund

“Who and how is changing the urban landscape of Ivano-Frankivsk: History of the METALAB city laboratory”

““To love. To do”: how caring people create housing for displaced people”

“Care Collective. At the Venice Architecture Biennale”

“Loving What You Do: an interview with the Pashynsky sisters, co-founders of the CO-HATY project”

“A co-working workshop was opened in Ivano-Frankivsk: how the POLE Design Development Centre will work”

“How Architecture Became One of Ukraine’s Essential Defenses”

The New York Times

general inquiries:

hello@metalab.space

76014, м. Ivano-Frankivsk,

st. 23Zh Ukrainskoi Peremohy, building 5 (formerly Ak. Sakharova St.)