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New Partner: PLDC 2015 @ Rome

16-03-2015

We are happy to announce our new partner Professional Lighting Design Convention 2015 (PLDC)!

The Professional Lighting Design Convention, PLDC 2015 will be held in Rome from October 28 to 31, 2015.

In/Visible City 2015: Connecting Cities @ Jena

11-03-2015

Today’s modern cities are hybrid structures in which technology is invisibly interweaved in the perception layers of our everyday lives. With the curatorial theme of INVISIBLE and VISIBLE Cities 2015 the goal i s to develop an awareness of the underlying data and technologies of modern cities, which are almost invisible to the eye. IN/VISIBLE Cities will visuali ze the embedded, ‘smart’ urban infrastructures in three artistic scenarios for the citizens to explore in a public setting. The three topics Digital Citizens, Hybrid City and Translocality will be the curatorial topics for creating creative use of urban data and sensor technologies.

Winner Projects of the 2015 Prototyping Lab In/Visible Cities @ transmediale

09-03-2015

The 'In/Visible Cities: Prototyping Lab' took place on 26th and 27th January as part of transmediale 2015 in the SUPERMARKT – initiated by Public Art Lab in collaboration with Fraunhofer FOKUS and funded by the RWE Foundation.

Creative developers, IT experts, urban planners and future visionaries have been invited to create DIY and crowdsourcing strategies dealing with the visualization of invisible technologies and data collection of our cities. The three topics safety (digital citizen), climate change and energy (hybrid city) and translocality formed the participants' starting point for creating use cases of light scenarios generated through open data, crowdsourcing sensor networks and DIY interfaces.

Connecting Cities Workshop and Lecture in Bangkok: 'Urban Media in Public Space: The Bangkok Connect'

04-03-2015

// Workshop: 6th – 7th March 2015

// Public Lecture: 6th March 2015, 5 pm – 6.30 pm
Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (BACC)
Multi-function Room, 1st floor

Within the thematic framework of Connecting Cities, the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Goethe-Institut Thailand and Public Art Lab (Berlin) organize the workshop “Urban Media in Public Space: The Bangkok Connect” from 6th to 7th March 2015 in Bangkok. The workshop offers a platform for brainstorming, sharing ideas, and networking. It brings together architects and urban planners, artists, designers and IT-developers, thinkers and researchers. Participants will be people who work with media within the built environment, people who give form to this environment, as well as people who take inspiration from it or reflect upon it.

IN/VISIBLE CITIES 2015: PROTOTYPING LAB

12-12-2014

// CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

25.-27.1. 2015
Supermarkt Berlin
Brunnenstrasse 64
13355 Berlin

Today’s modern cities are hybrid structures in which technology is invisibly interweaved in the perception layers of our everyday lives. With the curatorial theme of In/Visible Cities, in the framework of UNESCO’s International Year of Light, we want to develop an awareness on the changes which are hardly visible to the eyes and are underlying our nowadays cities.