How patterns create meaning and identity
Patterns are often understood as repetitive or decorative forms that can be predicted or recognised, from nature, to design, to language, to music. Patterns can also emerge through observation and analysis, helping us to make sense of the world around us.
Through a series of rotating co-produced exhibitions and workshops the Culture Lab will explore how patterns are created and understood and can create meaning and identity.
Visit us
The Culture Lab is based at UCL East, Marshgate. Drop-in on Wednesdays 1pm to 4pm, on selected Saturdays, or by appointment
Book an appointmentSaturday Studios
A series of free art and object handling workshops on Saturdays in the Culture Lab.
Explore and bookCurrent Displays
Patterns and Belonging
Artists Suman Gujral and Amarjeet Nandhra worked with East London women to create artworks about identity, heritage and belonging.
Patterns Beneath Our Feet
From 2015 to 2019, Archaeology South-East (UCL) excavated a large multi-period site at Stepney Way in Whitechapel, East London. Patterns Beneath Our Feet explores the objects and buildings they found.
Patterns and People
A display curated by the MA Museum Studies students looking at how classifying patterns satisfies the human need to assign meaning and order to the world through science, communication and design.
Surface Patterns
Our Conservation students curated this case. It explores the decisions conservators make about preserving an object's surfaces.
How to find us
The UCL Culture Lab is located in the Marshgate building at UCL East.
UCL East Marshgate
7 Sidings Street, Stratford,
London E20 2AE