Connecting
People
& Places
creates bridges beyond physical borders and fosters translocal dialogue, intercultural understanding and togetherness of people in dispersed and diverse locations through artistic telepresent networked scenarios.
Hybrid Placemaking
blends physical spaces with digital layers (apps, data, augmented reality, online communities, smart-city technologies) to create hybrid experiences for community building and social engagement.
Art and Ecology
raises awareness about environmental issues and circular eco-systems through sensitive mapping scenarios, data visualisation and citizen science methodologies to make the complexity of non-human beings visible and create knowledge transfer across disciplines.
Digital Heritage
enhances cultural heritage—traditions, rituals, performing arts, craftsmanship, and knowledge about nature and the universe—with digital technologies to create narratives and urban digital art works that fuse past, present, and future into an ever-evolving record of experience.
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About Public Art Lab
Public Art Lab (PAL) is a Berlin based action research lab and platform for urban media art that investigates, curates, and produces artistic projects in the urban public sphere at the intersection of media arts, urban planning and creative technologies. PAL is specialised in creative citymaking, citizen science and translocal dialogue that empower social interactions and citizens’ engagement.
These collaborations create citizens’ platforms, new artistic market places, festivals and networks that facilitate an open co-design process with the stakeholders to facilitate community place-making and neighbourhood building. Recent action research projects of PAL are the Creative Europe funded project of Future DiverCities (2022-2026) with focus on co-creation in the urban context and Digital Calligraffiti (2017-today), a community building project for civic engagement.
Mobile Projects
Public Art Lab started to develop mobile public projects since 2004. Such exemplary projects include nomadic communities projects like Mobile Museums (2004) and Mobile Studios (2006), Mobicases (2007, 2009, 2011) and Round Table Ukraine (2011-2013).
Urban Screens and Urban Media Art Projects
Since 2007 PAL investigates the communicative and cultural potential of urban screens and media facades in an action research process. Pilot projects were the Media Facades Festival 2008 and 2010, followed by the Innovation Forum Urban Screens (2011) and Connecting Cities (2012-today) and the City Digital Skin Art Competition / CDSA of which Public Art Lab is co-curating partner since 2023 . With the mission of ‘Reclaim the Screens!’ these urban screens project transform the large-scale digital infrastructures into community platforms and contributes to participatory translocal citymaking.
Citizen Science
Public Art Lab’s Citizen Science projects create awareness about environmental issues and circular eco-systems. During the International UNESCO Light Year 2015, PAL curated the light and science festival ‘City Visions’ for the city of Jena, Germany. Further projects: Public Face II and Fake Star (2018), LIving Library for Nature Writing (2020-2022) Intelligent Landscapes (2023), Spur der Häuser (2025-2026)
