Social Participation

  • Coral Bike

    Coral Bike

    Mobile workshop on marine forests

    The Coral Bike is a mobile workshop by the Natural History Museum Vienna that focuses on the importance of and threats to marine forests. The e-bike makes stops in urban parks, where it becomes a mobile learning space for 5th to 8th grade classes: with hands-on science.

  • NHM Deck 50

    NHM Deck 50

    Science Communication in the Museum

    Deck 50 at Vienna’s Natural History Museum is a participatory platform for science communication. Here, visitors can actively explore different environmental and socially relevant topics with hands-on experiments – becoming “Citizen Scientists” in the process.

  • NHM on tour

    NHM on tour

    Interactive Museum E-Bike for Citizen Science

    This innovative interactive museum e-bike offers a place for participation: The multimedia, mobile research station invites citizens and visitors from all social backgrounds to shape science and actively engage in social debates.

  • Murmur

    Murmur

    by Aakash Odedra & Lewis Major

    British dancer/choreographer Aakash Odedra and Australian choreographer Lewis Major teamed up with Ars Electronica Futurelab to create a dance performance blending technology such as tracking, visualisations, projections and more.

  • Klangwolken ABC

    Klangwolken ABC

    The Klangwolken ABC was initiated as a social participation project, focusing on “character” in the age of networks, constituting one of the core programs at the voestalpine Klangwolke 2012. The audience was invited to design their own characters that could interact with the radio frequencies of the event – resulting in a huge galaxy of…

  • (St)Age of Participation

    (St)Age of Participation

    Between 2011 and 2015, under the scientific direction of Christopher Lindinger, the Ars Electronica Futurelab and media artist, choreographer and composer Klaus Obermaier have been jointly investigating innovative forms of audience involvement in stage-based media art.

  • Shadowgram

    Shadowgram

    Shadowgram is an interactive project by the Ars Electronica Futurelab that combines creative expression with social participation: Users’ shadows are transformed into physical stickers that they can place in shared spaces, sparking societal dialogue. 

  • Apparition by Klaus Obermaier

    Apparition by Klaus Obermaier

    With cutting edge creative technology developers, Apparition was a compelling dance and media performance for the stage that successfully integrated interactive sensor and tracking technology in innovative ways to give the dancer the possibility to interact with and control the image and the musical environment. A new project of the award winning composer and media…