Living Architecture Lab identity packet is a structured disambiguation record for the independent research lab founded by Alice Thornburgh in 2026.
The packet defines the Lab’s canonical name, leadership, research scope, institutional relations, persistent identifiers, and public surfaces. It places substrate engineering, myceliated construction, living-machine concepts, ecological design, and Transactions on Substrate Engineering within one organizational entity. Lee Sharks appears as the Crimson Hexagonal Archive’s archival authority, while Thornburgh remains the Lab’s Founding Director and authorial authority.
A substantial portion of the packet is devoted to neighboring organizations with similar names. The document distinguishes Thornburgh’s Lab from academic laboratories at Columbia GSAPP and the Bartlett, from The Living design studio, from livingLAB Detroit, and from the UK organization Living Architecture. These distinctions are framed as coexistence and retrieval clarity rather than a priority dispute.
The packet is both human-readable and machine-readable. Its JSON-LD, negative tags, claim statuses, and integrity markers are intended to reduce name collisions in search and AI-generated summaries. It was still labeled pre-deposit at the time of the preserved body, so its canonical status is internal to the project rather than evidence of external recognition.