From today, The Future is Rural
LAB Genalguacil

The International Rural Innovation Laboratory - known as LAB - is an open, collaborative space dedicated to the regeneration of rural life and the exploration of new ways of working, making, and thinking together.

LAB Genalguacil operates through two interrelated elements:

Calle Real — the physical space in the village, rooted in local life
Rizoma — the network of people, practices, and places

Together, they form a living whole that connects Genalguacil with wider worlds.

WHAT IS LAB GENALGUACIL?

Why are we here?

Lab Genalguacil is an open model that enables rural areas to develop and implement their own tools for innovation - generating local solutions as active communities and challenging stereotypes about what being rural really means. At the core of our innovation approach is the value of local knowledge and an understanding of the complex relationships between the needs of people and nature - and the overall well-being of rural areas.

Featured Projects

Here you can keep up to date with the latest projects in which LAB is involved.

  • Pacesetters

    LAB Genalguacil, kicks off its first Horizon Europe Project, led by the LABs strategic partner NTNU.

  • Impact Academy Residency

    A cooperation between the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and Fundación Genalguacil Pueblo Museo

  • LAB FAMP

    Reinventing the rural future of andalusia

Let's talk

If you are interested in knowing more about LAB Genalguacil and how you can be part of this project for the transformation of rural areas, do not hesitate to contact us.

Insights

Lab Genalguacil is a great opportunity to explore, reflect and co-produce outcomes that foster a meaningful, ethical, and sustainable relationship with both the territory and its communities. We aim to understand and share valuable insights for the development of rural areas through innovation.

  • Short-Cuts

    Film-making as a learning space bringing together filmmakers, artists, farmers, researchers, to propel and change perspectives of filmmaking, innovation, ways of organising and the rural … its work in progress take a look…

  • Innovation in One Shot

    The attempt to visually and acoustically capture rural innovation in one take embraces a paradox: How to visualise what actually eludes the image?

  • Innovation in rural and remote areas

    Meet the people, places and projects of Genalguacil, sharing experiences and raising questions on how art, culture, tradition and nature can drive transformation.

  • Seeding the PACESETTERS

    Ecosystem in Spain.

Our Partners

Our work grows through connection. Not from a centre outward, but between people, places, and practices that find each other across distance and difference.

We work with partners who share a belief that rural places are not problems to be solved but worlds to be taken seriously. What we build together is founded in trust, generosity, and a willingness to sit with the uncertainty of making something genuinely new.

Collaboration here means more than shared projects. It means long-term relationships, honest exchange, and the kind of creative confidence that comes from working alongside people who bring different knowledge, different roots, and different ways of seeing.

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