The Design-Fiction laboratory at ESDI/UERJ carries out research activities at the interface between Design and various fields of the Humanities, always investigating the links between the processes of material production and the processes of value production - both in the moral sense (good/bad) and in the epistemic sense (true/false).

DesEduca Lab aims to build knowledge and articulate people, actions and affections focused on the use of design as a means of transforming educational practices. We start from the understanding that design thinking, which runs through the elaboration of artefacts, technological resources and spaces aimed at teaching-learning practices, also articulates transcendent dimensions, highlighting subjectivities, identity politics, epistemologies and becomings that go beyond apparent materialities. For this reason, the laboratory is open to investigating the insertion of design into educational practices in formal education and informal learning spaces, investigating aspects related to design training: pedagogy, curriculum and methodologies, as well as the uses of design in teacher training.

LABCULT aims to foster systematic, ongoing and, if possible, daily dialogue in order to accelerate the development of research supported by Philosophy, Design Theory, Semiotics and other related areas of knowledge.

A Biomimética envolve a observação do que ocorre na natureza, com o estudo das possíveis aplicações (no mundo construído ou artificial), reunindo conhecimentos de diversos ramos da ciência, como a biologia, design e engenharia: é um campo tão vasto quanto a Natureza que nos cerca. O Laboratório de Biomimética, primordialmente, se volta especificamente para a procura de soluções voltadas a projetos de produtos e/ou sistemas.