Casagrande Laboratory (C-LAB) is a Finland based multidisciplinary research & design company operating on the field of built human environment. C-LAB cross-over architectural work encompasses the realms of architecture, urban and environmental planning, environmental art, and other artistic disciplines. Cities become complex energy organisms in which different overlapping layers of energy flows are determining the actions of the citizens, as well as the development of the city. By mixing environmentalism and urban design, C-LAB develops methods of punctual manipulation of the urban energy flows in order to create an ecologically sustainable urban development towards the so-called “Third Generation City”. This organic machine is kept alive through continuous and spontaneous ruining processes performed by its citizens: the “anarchist gardeners” (cit. M. Casagrande) by means of urban farming, illegal architecture, and urban acupuncture. The element of “ruin” is viewed as something man-made having become part of nature.

We are inspired by nature and human nature.

C-Lab is one of the world leading organization working on theories and practices of what has been defined the “Third Generation City” and the “Urban Acupuncture”: a methodology which uses the flows of information and communication in the city to identify "pressure points" which enable to achieve large results through localized interventions.

Marco Casagrande, founder of C-LAB, is the major social theorist and architect recognized worldwide for his contribution to the conceptualization of Urban Acupuncture and the Third Generation City.

The widely published works have been exhibited three times in the Venice Architecture Biennale (2000, 2004 and 2006) and in Havana Biennale 2000, Firenze Biennial 2001, Yokohama Triennial2001, Montreal Biennial 2002, Puerto Rico Biennial 2002, Demeter Hokkaido 2002, Alaska Design Forum 2003, Echigo-Tsumari Triennial 2003, Taipei on the Move 2004, London Architecture Biennial 2004, Sensoria Melbourne 2004, Taiwan Design Expo 2005, Urban Flashes Mumbai 2006, 7-ELEVEN City 2007, World Architecture Festival 2009, Hong Kong & Shenzhen Bi-City Biennial 2009 and 2012, Victoria & Albert Museum 2010, Beaufort Triennial of Contemporary Art 2012, Austrian Museum of Contemporary Art MAK 2013, Buenos Aires Architecture Biennale 2013 and China Central Academy of Fine Arts CAFAM Biennale 2014 among others.

C-LAB realizes university level courses in biourbanism, architecture and environmental art.