Research for Understanding the Designed World

The ideas behind Thinking Hands.

Thinking Hands Lab explores the ideas that shape how humans learn, create and make sense of the designed world. By combining insights from design, creativity, cognitive science, education, philosophy, and artificial intelligence, the Lab builds the intellectual foundation of GOM Design.Tech

Our Research Library is continuously growing through academic literature, field research and interdisciplinary collaboration.

Research Themes

— Design & Society
— Making & Materiality
— Creativity
— Mind & Cognition

— Learning
— AI & Future Learning
— Ecology & Systems

Reading · Reflecting · Still Folding

Ideas evolve. Questions lead to new questions. Our Research Library is a living collection of books, papers, conversations and field observations that continues to grow alongside GOM.

Some ideas become workshops.
Some become products.
Some become research.
And some are still folding.

“Geometry is the language of the Universe.”

— R. Buckminster Fuller