Innovation and Resilience Through Bio-artifacts and Circular Design: Research exchange and doctoral training by CTRL+JUNK LAB at Università Iuav di Venezia and the Territorial Design group at Leibniz University Hannover

Bridging the fields of design, architecture, and territorial planning, the Laboratory of Survival project explores how creative approaches can regenerate environments, communities, and economies through bio-artefacts and circular design. Developed in collaboration with Università Iuav di Venezia and Leibniz University Hannover, the project captures the dialogue between urban transformation and working with nature, and between research and practice. From Hyperlocal Design and regenerative visions of Venice to collective eco-innovation and circular tools for architecture, the essays and research projects reveal a landscape of emerging ideas, charting a path from material design to territorial resilience, where each project’s act becomes part of a laboratory for survival. At once visionary and grounded, this volume shows that the future of circularity lies not only in recycling materials, but in reimagining relationships between people, places, and the planet.