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Humanity has always sought new ways to understand its most profound experiences: care, loss, imagination, belonging, discovery, and the future. Today, these enduring questions unfold within a world transformed by artificial intelligence, biotechnology, planetary change, and new forms of collective life.

Every era develops new tools for investigation. We believe our era also calls for new institutional imagination, including environments where unconventional teams can pursue shared questions over time.

Forever Lab is a research laboratory, creative studio, and field-building institution.

We are not a clinic, service provider, or an academic department. Rather than organizing around a single discipline, we organize around questions—developing fellowships, research initiatives, art, and partnerships that generate new knowledge and strengthen society's capacity to investigate these questions together.

Forever Lab was founded by Dr. Karleen Giannitrapani and Janani Balasubramanian. Their collaboration reflects Forever Lab's core belief that enduring human questions benefit from sustained inquiry across multiple ways of knowing.

We collaborate with artists, researchers, other university labs, companies, cultural and scientific institutions of many kinds. Some partnerships take the form of research initiatives or fellowships; others become artworks, public experiences, convenings, or new institutional experiments. We welcome collaborators who are excited to investigate enduring human questions in unusual ways.

If you are interested in collaborating, we encourage you to reach out with a clear description of your expertise, the question or problem you are interested in exploring, and how you see your work aligning with our mission. Our team reviews inquiries periodically and prioritizes collaborations that are rigorously conceived, values-aligned, and capable of contributing to translational impact across systems. 

We work on timeless, enduring problems in the human journey.