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ReLab: Designing a Makerspace Focused on Plastics Recycling
Date
2025
Location
Puerto Rico
Client
The Recycling Museum (Hatillo, PR)
Services
Makerspace Development
Strategic Project Planning
Design Facilitation
Physical Space Design
User Experience Design
Implementation Support
Selected Methods
Participatory Design
UX in Physical Spaces
Sensory Design
Design for Accessibility
Wayfinding and Signage Strategy
Low-Fidelity Spatial Prototyping
Impact Areas
Environmental Sustainability
The Circular Economy
Community-Centered Innovation
Youth Engagement and Education
ReLab is a community Makerspace that is being developed by the Recycling Museum of Hatillo, Puerto Rico, to support hands-on learning around plastic recycling and circular product design.
Through our consulting intervention, we helped the team align on the vision, target audiences, and objectives for the space, and facilitated participatory design workshops to develop the makerspace concept and guide decisions around the interior design, spatial layout, user workflows, and selection of furniture and tools.
We translated these decisions into materials and tools inventories, budgets with suppliers, 2D spatial layouts and user flow diagrams, as well as recommendations for accessibility, signage and wayfinding. The museum is now working to move ReLab from concept into implementation.
