SAIAR

Spatial AI-Augmented Reality Lab

Intrigued by immersive experiences, interactive installations and generative AI workflows?

SAIARlab is the research lab of Devine — Digital Design & Development at Howest. We explore interactive immersive experiences and generative workflows, without losing the human touch.

An immersive projection-mapped installation by SAIARlab

Our mission

Where technology, creativity and experience design meet.

The Spatial AI-Augmented Reality Lab (SAIARlab) is the research lab of Digital Design & Development (Devine). The lab brings together researchers, designers and creative technologists, operating at the crossroads of technology, creativity and experience design.

SAIARlab’s mission is to support companies and cultural organisations in adopting state-of-the-art immersive technologies and workflows. The lab explores how generative AI can support creative processes without losing the human touch, and how immersive and interactive experiences can be created through projection mapping and the integration of real-time sensor data. To make these technologies more accessible, SAIARlab operates a mobile and modular infrastructure that enables rapid prototyping of interactive projection mapping installations, where movement, sound and environmental data can be used as input for dynamic, AI-generated visual content in real time.

Have a specific challenge in mind? Want to transform your festival, cultural event, or elevate your brand experience? Get in touch.

What we do

Integrating generative AI into projection mapping workflows for creative agencies and businesses.

We enable Flemish creative (production) agencies to integrate generative AI into their workflows for immersive experiences — projection mapping at festivals, interactive installations in retail and museums, and more.

The project delivers methods, tooling, and exemplars to reduce complexity and production time, lowering client costs and improving agency margins while accelerating AI-based immersive concepts.

Why it matters

Why the lab exists.

Demand is rising as the experience economy shifts value from products to experiences; immersive work boosts brand recognition, city marketing, and purchase intent.

Yet high development costs and an AI knowledge gap within agencies hinder adoption, causing underestimation of AI’s value and missed opportunities for innovative, interactive, generative experiences. Integrating AI addresses these barriers and strengthens (inter)national competitiveness.

A portrait dissolving into a cloud of generative particles
“SAIARlab explores interactive immersive experiences and generative workflows — without losing the human touch.
The research lab of Devine — Digital Design & Development, Howest.

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