Join the next generation of environmental designers and innovators; strengthen your college application; and explore new career pathways. ONE Lab Summer Studio offers a range of in-person and remote pre-college summer courses taught by experts and leaders in the field. Learn more here.

Based at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, ONE Lab Summer Studio is a design studio that illustrates the socioecological possibilities of the built environment. It engages the next generation of innovators in sustainable architecture and biodesign through our hands-on creative design process.

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Critical Thinking

Engage in project-based problem solving and sharpen your critical thinking

Hands-On Experience

Gain bio-design experience in our immersive classes

Key Elements of College Applications

Leave with a student evaluation and portfolio work

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Calling all high school students interested in architecture, urban systems, biomaterials and ecological design.

ONE Lab is the place for you!

Our World-Renowned Faculty

Our award-winning faculty is a diverse group of global innovators, entrepreneurs, scientists, designers, artists, and industry experts.
Their professional expertise, teaching experience, and passion for their subject and for environmental awareness will inspire you to challenge yourself, explore new concepts and take your place in the ranks of the next generation of design leaders.

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Brooklyn STEAM Center, the Brooklyn Navy Yard & Land Acknowledgement

We are proud to have Brooklyn STEAM Center as our educational partner. The Brooklyn STEAM Center delivers innovative, industry-informed experiences which empower students to take charge of their futures, and creates a diverse, skilled talent pipeline for the technology and manufacturing industries. Our partnership with Brooklyn STEAM Center is made possible in collaboration with the Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation, which is an invaluable partner and supporter of our educational programs.
We would like to acknowledge that ONE Lab programs are held on the ancestral and unceded territory of the traditional lands of the Munsee Lenape and Canarsee. We want to pay our respects to their elders both past and present. And we want to acknowledge and thank the Munsee Lenape and Canarsee Peoples, who have stewarded this land throughout the generations. Indigenous teachings, past and present, on environmental design and preservation continue to inspire our work and offer important guidance for all we do.

About Terreform ONE

ONE Lab is the educational arm of Terreform ONE [Open Network Ecology], an internationally recognized non-profit architecture and urban design research-based group. We endeavor to combat the extinction of all planetary species through pioneering acts of design. Our projects aim to illuminate the environmental possibilities of habitats, cities and landscapes across the globe. We operate as an interdisciplinary lab of specialists advancing the practice of socio-ecological design. The group cultivates resilience through innovations in building, transportation, infrastructure, water, food, waste treatment, air quality, and energy.

We Are Committed to Diversity

Terreform ONE is committed to making its programs accessible to students from all backgrounds. The Diversity Scholarship aims to improve availability, access, and equity of learning opportunities for economically disadvantaged students by offering scholarships. Please contact info@onelab.org for more information.