What is The Unsecurities Lab?
The Unsecurities Lab is an interdisciplinary platform that brings together artists, security specialists, policymakers, and researchers to rethink cyber-physical security, resilience, and adaptation. It begins with the recognition that security is not only about protection and control, but also about how we perceive and respond to complex, entangled systems. Cultural innovation plays a critical role in shaping these perceptions, providing new ways to approach security as an evolving, systemic challenge rather than a fixed technical problem.
Each lab cycle follows a structured process: Artworks are deployed as provocations—complex spaces of inquiry that demand attention, interpretation, and collaborative analysis. Close engagement with art surfaces new ways of seeing and conceptualizing security. Structured dialogue allows specialists from different disciplines to test assumptions and generate new frameworks. Documentation and publishing ensure that these insights circulate beyond the lab, embedding cultural innovation into security thinking.
The Unsecurities Lab does not seek to impose new security paradigms but to expand the ways key people think, speak, and act on security issues. By integrating cultural inquiry into systemic security thinking, it builds new methods, new forms of knowledge, and new capacities for navigating uncertainty.
