Social Participation

  • Coral Bike

    Coral Bike

    NHM on tour

    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

    Participative platform for science communication

    With the aim of using Citizen Science to awaken the researcher’s instinct in visitors and to get the public more involved in the scientific processes in the museum, the Natural History Museum Vienna has developed a new platform for science communication together with the Ars Electronica Futurelab and INSEQ Design: In the new Deck 50,…

  • NHM on tour

    NHM on tour

    The innovative and interactive museum e-bike intends to support the Citizen Science Initiative of the Natural History Museum Vienna (NHM) and was conceptualized and developed in cooperation with the Ars Electronica Futurelab and Inseq Design for the intercontextual knowledge transfer between research and society.

  • 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

    Ars Electronica Futurelab developed Shadowgram as a method for combining the aesthetic entertainment of creating a physical object, a sticker cut out in the shape of your shadow with the intention of participating in social brainstorming.

  • 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…