FormLab

On March 23, 2005, the School of Industrial Design of the Faculty of Environmental Design at Université de Montréal inaugurated Formlab, a laboratory for advanced digital imaging and rapid prototyping. Dedicated to research into the use of digital techniques in industrial design, this lab supports numerous research projects in participative design, virtual reality, hybrid digital/analog methodologies, and automated manufacturing. With its specialized equipment and researchers who explore the furthest reaches of digital design, Formlab is fast becoming a knowledge development facility attracting candidates to the Design and Complexity Master's program at the university as well as to the Faculty's doctoral program.

Formlab was made possible through a generous donation from the J. Armand Bombardier Foundation and a grant from the Canada Foundation for Innovation. With this important financial support, Formlab is able to offer high performance computers, a peripheral for haptic data entry, a bifocal 3D scanner, a fusion-deposition rapid prototyping machine, and several pieces of equipment enabling vacuum digital imaging.

Hexagram-Concordia

Located in the heart of Montreal, the Hexagram Concordia laboratory was inaugurated during the "Designing Futures" gala on May 31, 2006. The laboratory occupies two floors as well as a cutting edge production studio in Concordia's new Integrated Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Complex.

The Hexagram Concordia laboratory is equipped with a Jacquard loom to allow creator/researchers working in the interactive textile field to create complex projects with textiles and weave electronic components into the fabrics themselves.The Hexagram Concordia laboratory also features printers that allow images to be transferred directly onto the textiles used in the creations of our creator and researchers.