Media Architecture Group has been working on an international level on the topic of media architecture and digital media in public space since 2003. Members started collecting media architecture on the very popular blog www.mediaarchitecture.org in 2006. The website has received between 50.000 and 100.000 hits per year. The Group founded in the fall of 2009 the Media Architecture Institute as platform, that sees the contribution in provoking and promoting multifaceted discussion of this topic at an early stage. An open and perpetually growing, interdisciplinary network of architects, light and media designers, artists, engineers, industrial partners and other experts from academic and economic fields has developed from past events.