Our creative minds and long-term relationships with industry partners and community organizations provide opportunities to collaborate extensively for projects of different scales and media – from an educational video to a hospital in Haiti.
The 2025 OpenLAB Boston studio work will be exhibited at Virginia Tech Monday, March 2nd through Wednesday, March 4th.
Please join us for the following events on Monday, March 2nd:
11:00am - Lecture with Parke MacDowell
1:00pm Lobby talk with Kevin Sullivan
This year’s studio identifies seven sites along the frayed edges of Boston’s Greenway. The Greenway is a one-mile-long linear park running through the heart of the city, reconnecting downtown Boston with its waterfront. Many of the parcels along its edges remain undeveloped and present mute, blank facades to the public realm. Addressing and repairing these edges through acts of infilling, layering, grafting, framing, and placemaking is the core focus of the studio—SUTURE.
CREATIVE ENGAGEMENT WITH INSTITUTIONS
In partnership with a major healthcare institution, we developed a nine-minute educational video to improve the patient experience of children and their families during Emergency Department visits. The video features original music, digital sketches, photography and videography developed by over 20 designers, and has been used to welcome thousands of children who have visited the Pediatric ER since 2016.
ADDRESS FOOD ISSUE WITH community organization
We maintain relationships with local community organizations and seek opportunities to support their development. We have been working with Land’s Sake, a non-profit community farm dedicated to food production and education, to develop a long-term master plan for their 40-acre farmland since 2017. In alignment with our sustainability approach, our plan strives to enhance the farm experience and improve the connection with the community it serves.
RELIEF REGIONAL CRISIS WITH HEALTHCARE EXPERTISE
Our expertise in healthcare enables us to provide design and build assistance to underserved and vulnerable communities in need of treatment and care, even outside the US. After the devastating earthquake in Haiti in 2010, the PAYETTE healthcare team helped design a 13,700 SF maternity ward and neonatal care center through a multi-year collaboration.
