The Laboratory

How did this work come into being?

The experimental environment where questions become concepts, prototypes, operators, research and reviewed publications.

The Laboratory guides visitors to the process, current work, publications and versioned research records. The Repository documents their sources and scientific baselines.

Follow the research process
Night-sky cover of The Cartography Laboratory showing an observer between two telescopes.

Primary Laboratory reading

The Cartography Laboratory

NEXAH Laboratory Reports — Report I

A visitor’s guide to the Repository, its research wings and experimental facilities.

Reading Selection available. The local Reading Space contains selected recorded pages; the Original Publication remains authoritative on Are.na.

Laboratory → Publication Record → Reading Selection → Original Publication

Three different places

Work, publication and connection remain distinct.

The Laboratory is one place within a wider, cross-repository Research Architecture. It contributes research without owning the architecture as a whole.Explore the Research Architecture

Laboratory

See the process.

Understand how research moves from an open question toward a citable work.

Library

Read the publications.

Enter works that have crossed the editorial threshold into the public collection.

Enter the Library
Living Atlas

Follow declared relationships.

Move between publications, concepts and themes through curated connections.

Enter the Atlas