about

timelab is a new platform in Ghent, a workplace for art, technology and society. 

timelab consists of a fabLab, an artists-in-residence programme, social research and get-togethers where artists, experts and other interested parties can meet, exchange ideas and find inspiration. 

Make it!

Ghent boasts Belgium’s first real public fabLab. It is part of the timelab. Anyone and everyone can come along to the Friday Open labDays to realize their very own designs. There is also scope for larger projects.

Artists-in-residence

timelab invites artists from diverse backgrounds to take part in a residential programme. For some the link with technology is all-important; others prefer to start from a contemplative standpoint about, for example, man’s role in society.

It’s all about the people

In addition to the numerous get-togethers in the fabLab and a series of training programmes, there is an annual summer camp, an intensive ten-day programme in the city for15 artists from home and abroad.

Every month there is the international network meeting Dorkbot, “people doing strange things with electricity”, where makers explain the technical aspects of their creations or research to a group of interested people.

Finally, every year in early spring the timelab OPEN assesses the state of play.

timelab is a new platform in Ghent, a workplace for art, technology and society.

timelab is Evi Swinnen, Eva De Groote and Kurt Van Houtte.

TimeLab is supported by the Flemish Community, the Province of East Flanders and the City of Ghent.