Dear Students,

Welcome back! We look forward to working with you this year. In order to support you better and ensure your safety, the VFL has moved to a certification system. Certificates will be granted after taking a training course with the VFL and passing a short assessment test. Training sessions will be offered multiple times per week throughout the semester for each of our specialized areas. During these sessions, lab staff will teach you how to operate our tools and walk you through the file setup and protocols to use our equipment. We hope this will create better exposure and access to our facility. You will need to be certified to make reservations for our space.

For returning students, you have the option to be certified by taking our assessment test.  When you pass, you will receive a certificate through your email.

Good luck this year!  See you soon!!!!

The VFL Staff

The Visible Futures Lab is a space for learning, prototyping, and art-making open to SVA graduate students in every discipline. Our self-service operations prioritize independent learning by doing and foster individualized processes. Cross-pollination is expected and encouraged here, with projects in fields such as interaction design & fine art developing side by side. We aim to provide students with not only the skills to operate digital tools, but also an understanding of their field of study in a broader context.

Our research initiatives, in areas of new media and material development, and our event series build upon this objective and create moments of synchronicity within the SVA community and beyond.