Located at NYU, IDM.Grow is an integrated research program based at the intersection of biology and urban design. . This includes designing creative solutions for various urban gardening challenges, biomaterials design and fabrication, and urban metagenomics. By working directly with community partners and NYU faculty across various departments at Tandon, students actively engage with researchers and stakeholders. The program operates between two main sites: (1) the Urban Food Lab, located in the NYU Tandon MakerSpace, serves as a testing space for students to test prototypes, and (2) the IDM.Grow Lab, located at the entrance of the IDM department, which is both an edible garden and a biomaterials library and fabrication space and (3) the Laboratory for Living Interfaces at IDM, which is an metagenomics research lab that investigates microbial metrics of urban spaces. 

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