Dossier
Laboratories
In recent years we have lived through an explosion of different models in cultural, artistic, technological and social laboratories. They all have in common an experimental culture, based on permanent research and innovation, and the exploration of new collaborative forms of knowledge creation.
Culture
Is Lab All There Is?
Ramon Sangüesa
The “lab” concept has been a great success. It had the good fortune to be appropriated by all kinds of actors: public, semi-public, private, and any combination.
Culture
Lab Phenomena: From the long march to the agil sprint
Adam Price
Are we poised on the cusp of a new golden age of experimentalism, or rapidly approaching Peak Lab?
Culture
The evolution of lab culture
Juan Insua
The LABMeeting 2015 conference brought together many of the projects and experiences that have helped to create and shape a lab culture in recent decades.
«The studio is a laboratory, not a factory. An exhibition is the result of your experiments, but the process is never-ending. So an exhibition is not a conclusion.»
Culture
Artists in the laboratory
Clara Bofill
Why use an a priori scientific term to describe a place for artistic creation? What does the existence of these spaces mean?
«Why create a work of art when dreaming about it is so much sweeter?»
Culture
Scott Smith: “Barcelona is a good place for innovation”
What does innovation mean? How should we address climate change? What is the future of the internet? Interview with technology consultant, Scott Smith.
Commons
Public Innovation: Open, Social, Cultural
Alberto Ortiz de Zárate
The key to public innovation: it adds value to legitimate recipients.
