ISM is interested in addressing the complex problems of tomorrow and uses mathematics, science and technology as design tools to manage and understand complexity. Therefore, ISMLab can be associated as a multidisciplinary and collaborative design research platform in practice.

ISMLab draws inspiration from a wide range of sources not traditionally associated with architecture, such as organic and natural systems, as well as generative processes of technological, material and computational innovation.

The experimental and speculative work at ISMLab enables the development of an ongoing research project using new technologies to explore new possibilities for architecture and create unknown spatial experiences.