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Help build the future of access, infrastructure, and care. Options to become a member or submit for review of your business to join the inclusivity index.
We build what doesn’t exist yet.
EdenLab identifies where systems fail—in healthcare, technology, and daily life—and designs real-world solutions led by lived experience.
Your support doesn’t fund ideas.
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It funds infrastructure, prototypes, and change that scales.
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| Adverse group | What’s broken right now | Why EdenLab’s work matters |
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| Disabled people | Products, care systems, and public spaces assume one “normal” body and mind. | Universal design research + assistive innovation turns lived experience into better infrastructure for everyone. |
| Chronically ill and immunocompromised people | Care is fragmented, expensive, and designed around short appointments instead of daily reality. | We build tools and care models that support independence, safety, and continuity outside “broken” systems. |
| Caregivers (paid and unpaid) | Support labor is undervalued and systems offload coordination work onto families and individuals. | Care infrastructure projects reduce the hidden workload and create sustainable support networks. |
| Low-income and underinsured communities | Access depends on money, time off work, and proximity to specialists. | Infrastructure-first solutions aim for affordability, repairability, and scalability beyond boutique pilots. |
| People in rural areas | Distance, transportation, and limited services make “available” care functionally inaccessible. | We design for real-world constraints so solutions work without perfect access, providers, or geography. |
| People experiencing isolation and loneliness | Isolation is treated like a personal issue instead of a systems issue. | Our social isolation research maps real behaviors to build products and platforms that create connection. |
| People marginalized by race, gender, and sexuality | Systems were not built with these communities as the default user, leading to bias and harm. | Design led by lived experience produces safer, more accurate, and more trustworthy systems. |
| People impacted by stigma (incontinence, mobility aids, mental health, addiction) | Stigma blocks people from getting support and keeps innovation stuck in “medical” framing. | Culture + media work shifts narratives so people can access care and tools without shame. |
| Older adults and aging bodies | Independence often requires navigating multiple systems and devices that don’t talk to each other. | Designing for the edge creates dignity, autonomy, and better standards as more people age into access needs. |
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This is not charity.
We are led by a team of passionate and action-oriented community leaders. Our mission is to address the deficit of space held for Aging, Queer, BIPOC, disabled, and neurodivergent humans who are actively organizing and producing the vibrancy that Austin, TX is known for. This includes all of the designers and creative professionals who support them. Organizing interwoven experiences and promoting Austin’s identity can give small brands viability in creative and commercial spaces. We influence the well-being of people in Austin. By centering intersectionality, we address the compounded forms of marginalization that underground, marginalized and historically displaced experiences.
We provide the platform and pipeline necessary for growth, filling a glaring gap in Austin's commercial landscape. Through our work, we engage in essential cultural preservation by focusing on Universal Design, Technology Research, Archival Media, and Cultural Development. By elevating the work of marginalized people, we enhance representation driving social impact to foster a reliable sense of belonging and inclusion.
Austin is rich with diverse vibrancy and unique cultural expressions. By accurately depicting the vast, nuanced human experiences within the community, we aim to reflect the realities of those often overlooked. Our work is rooted in a commitment to a continuous pursuit of understanding, with the intent to bring genuine visibility to narratives that mainstream histories;
Archives contribute to the active rebuttal of erasure projects, giving an accurate representation of history, vital for the community’s self-understanding and healing, all while challenging stereotypes and future building.
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We operate as a research and development lab for human systems.