METALAB

METALAB is an urban laboratory in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine, founded in 2017 to work on sustainability, community development, affordable housing and product design. It operates from the former Promprylad plant, an industrial site being converted into an innovation centre, and works with communities that share its values to build inclusive, sustainable and comfortable living spaces.

Its current work centres on two projects: CO-HATY, which builds housing for people who lost their homes to the war, and POLE, a product design practice and makerspace. The team, co-founded by Anna Pashynska and Anna Dobrova, also runs the City Scanning Session festival and researches urban space, with strategic guidance from Studio Weave and Project 00 supported by the British Council.