Meantime @ UCity: DumoLab Solo Exhibit

DumoLab Research (DLR) led by Laia Mogas-Soldevila at the Weitzman School has partnered with Meantime, a project of Weitzman faculty member Brian Phillips and UCitySq, to activate storefronts in West Philadelphia and showcase cutting-edge sustainable architecture from biomaterials. 

On display DumoLab's newest bio-composite research on hyperlocal material cycles forming 3m-domes, chemically-interactive earthen tiles and panels, food-waste-based shingles, and furniture from juicing pulp. "RAMUSUMAR" by Eugene Lew composed from scores of  wet and dry hardware throughout Ramus Dome manufacturing process.

Check back below for more DATES on site activations offering experimental music concerts and public workshops through end of May 2026 (community biofabrication, biomaterials discovery, and ecological literacy for youth and adults):

• April 16th OPENING with 5 DumoLab Projects and Eugene Lew's RAMUSUMAR Soundscape @5-8pm
• May 13th Ecological Literacy Workshop K-8 by Santiago Cortes @3pm
• May 14th Electronic Music Night @6pm
• May 18th Natural Materials Workshop by the Penn Materials Library @5pm
• May 21st Material Stories: Hands-on Ecological Literacy Workshop Adults by Eda Begum Birol @5pm
• May 29th CLOSING of Exhibit and Experimental Music Fusion by Santiago Cortes and Eugene Lew "Bio-composite Sonic Research" @6pm

On view:

• TEGULA TILES: Chemically Interactive Tiles (Eda Begum Birol, Bhavana Priya Balasubramanian, Yasaman Amirzehni) 
• RAMUS DOME: Mechanically-Tuned Structural Bio-Composites (Bowen Qin, Alexia Luo, Behzad Modanloo, Cocona Liu, Ilyas Mousannif)
• BAGASSEAT: Furniture from Market Waste (Yuanyi Cen, Bhavana Balasubramanian)
• HARVESTCAST: Farm Biomass Cladding (Mu Cao, Elizabeth Aldridge, Ricardo Alvarado, Ziming He, Yasaman Amirzehni)
• TERRENE 4: Raw Earth Thin Shells (Eda Begum Birol, Siqi Zhao, Phoebe Anagnos, Sophia Wang, Aaron Dorand, Simone Yang)