The Interactive Arts & Science Laboratory (IASlab) is a project co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and granted by the Department of Research and Universities of the Generalitat de Catalunya through the Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts de Recerca i Universitaris (AGAUR). The project will transform the La Salle building of the University Campus into an audiovisual hub of reference in Europe. An initiative that promotes the study of the interaction between the real and virtual worlds, exploring the implications and possibilities of this future paradigm of human-machine relations in both the real world and the metaverse.

The IASlab is an immersive space in digital technologies that will study the growth of media content, art, and digital entertainment, and will also be a lever for the evolution of other sectors through their experiences. A transversal and multidisciplinary environment in which all the elements that make up the ecosystem of La Salle Campus Barcelona dialogue: research, academia, companies, startups, and other social agents.

The new digital arts, science, and entertainment laboratory have been designed as a sustainable and energy-efficient building, making the most of natural resources, reducing consumption, and optimizing and reusing all energy.

Some of the spaces in the building are:

Reality lab / Immerse room

Multipurpose laboratory dedicated to research into technologies linked to the perception of the environment. These technologies can be audiovisual in nature, such as virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) (dealing with virtual or mixed scenarios), tactile (real scenes and objects) or a combination (interactive mixed realities).

Colour and editing room

It is a unique room in the laboratory where technology plays a fundamental role, both in terms of the inclusion of cutting-edge technology that serves as a basis for the design of new tools and lines of research for the development of technology. future for animation and the creation of high-quality visual effects (VFXs) in real time.

VFX animation studio 4

More than 200 square meters. Animation Studio where the finalist projects for the degree are created, equipped with 44 high-performance Workstations, with double calibrated screens, Cintiqs, a renderfarm with more than 250 nodes that configure high power and production capacity and a centralized NAS focused on production animation & VFX professional.

VFX set

It is a unique room in the laboratory where technology plays a fundamental role, both in terms of the inclusion of cutting-edge technology that serves as a basis for the design of new tools and lines of research for the development of technology. future for animation and the creation of visual effects (VFXs).

The IASlab project is co-funded by the Department of Research and Universities of the Generalitat de Catalunya, within the framework of the Call EMC/954/2019, of April 9, for the realization of unique institutional projects that enable the generation of research excellence, the attraction of talent and the development of knowledge transfer and valorization activities, through the construction, acquisition, habilitation or substantial expansion of buildings for R&D infrastructures.