In the past five years, America’s suburbanized landscape has emerged as a site of urgent contestation—arguably the defining geography of the national political moment. However, while the fields of art and design have largely failed to engage this critical space, Laboratory for Suburbia is a yearlong project inviting artists, designers, and others to respond to legacies of suburbanization—and to do so in St. Louis. Presenting a potent paradigm for suburbanization in the twenty-first century—just as Los Angeles did in the twentieth—St. Louis is an illustration of a region where sprawl continues apace not because of explosive population growth but despite the lack of it, in the face of economic precariousness, population stagnation, and racial anxiety. The project is an initiative organized by the Luminary art space located in St. Louis.