2008

Urban Screens transform the capacity of public spaces to serve as a platform for user-generated civic and cultural expression, community building, multiculturalism and public engagment in issues related to social, cultural and environmental sustainability.

Through networking, content sharing and joint broadcasting, they constitute a rapidly expanding and still largely experimental global multimedia infrastructure for commercial and cultural exchange.

The Collegium Hungaricum Berlin was established in 1924. It re-opened its doors on historical grounds in Berlin-Mitte, Dorotheenstraße 12, with a view on the boulevard “Unter den Linden” in November 2007. The new institute was designed by architect Peter P. Schweger from Hamburg in the style of Neobauhaus and demands for contemporary contents and forms of expression. Over the course of the past two years the .CHB has emerged as an excellent centre for art and media within the cultural landscape of Berlin-Mitte.

PUBLIC ART LAB - AN ACTION RESEARCH PLATFORM
Intended as an action research platform, Public Art Lab devises and implements exhibition and communication formats to take place at the juncture between the creative disciplines, public authorities, the business community and universities. The interventions aim to translate social processes into the public realm with the support of new technologies. Public Art Lab has developed ’action research’ as its preferred methodological tool.

NETWORKED COMMUNICATION FORMATS

Initiated by Mirjam Struppek & Susa Pop, Public Art Lab in cooperation with Media Architecture Group Vienna and the German Center for Architecture (DAZ)