{"id":14273,"date":"2022-12-15T10:30:14","date_gmt":"2022-12-15T10:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/did\/?page_id=14273"},"modified":"2026-08-03T15:21:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T07:21:19","slug":"iml","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/dd\/research\/iml\/","title":{"rendered":"Interactive Materials Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t\t<ul>\n\t\t\t\t<li>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/did\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2025\/06\/IML-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t<li>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/did\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2025\/06\/IML-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t<li>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/did\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2025\/06\/IML-3-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t\t\t\t<ul id=\"menu-research-menu\"><li id=\"menu-item-14283\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/dd\/research\/cdh\/\">Communication Design Hub<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-14282\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/dd\/research\/iml\/\">Interactive Materials Lab<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-14284\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/dd\/research\/sdl\/\">Service Design Lab<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-17206\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/dd\/research\/aging-with-dignity-lab\/\">Aging with Dignity Lab<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-17208\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/dd\/research\/soft-technologies-lab\/\">Soft Technologies Lab<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-17207\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/dd\/research\/jedi-lab\/\">Joyful Experiences in Design and Interaction (JEDI) Lab<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-17236\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/dd\/research\/interactive-3d-design-lab\/\">Interactive 3D Design Lab<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-17226\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/dd\/research\/fabrication-futures-lab\/\">Fabrication Futures Lab<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\t\n\t<h3>\n\t\t\tInteractive Materials Lab\t<\/h3>\n<p>The Interactive Materials Lab is housed within the Department of Design, where we conduct research in material systems to support interaction and experience design. Our practice blends designerly exploration and technical experiments with rigorous making. Students collaborate with our research staff to investigate the space between materials and artefacts; and specialise in building interactive systems by leveraging everyday materials and fabrication processes. This often yields new approaches and tools for constructing tangible interfaces.<\/p>\n<p>View some of the works <a href=\"https:\/\/interactivematerials.info\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Communication Design Hub Interactive Materials Lab Service Design Lab Aging with Dignity Lab Soft Technologies Lab Joyful Experiences in Design and Interaction (JEDI) Lab Interactive 3D Design Lab Fabrication Futures Lab Interactive Materials Lab The Interactive Materials Lab is housed within the Department of Design, where we conduct research in material systems to support interaction [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":236,"featured_media":0,"parent":14373,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rs_blank_template":"","rs_page_bg_color":"","slide_template_v7":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-14273","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - 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