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Applications for OPI Lab 2026/2027 are open 4 March – 15 April (link in bio)
How can practitioners working in art, architecture and related fields create their own conditions, define their own roles, initiate their own projects, and negotiate values that might be overlooked – or even unwelcome – in contexts where they are often not even invited?
Of Public Interest (OPI) Lab is a yearly advanced course at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm, situated in a practice-based research environment. The course is open to international applications from a diverse group of practices: visual artists, architects, landscape architects, curators, cultural producers, policy makers, and other associated fields. The group of 16 professional practitioners meets ten times during the year, each time for a week-long intensive session in Stockholm.
Central to OPI Lab is an interest in our shared living environment and in navigating how to initiate and realize projects where imagination meets critical thought and a genuine interest in how one’s practice meets a place, its context, histories, and publics.
The setting for the ten sessions is a storefront in a residential area in Gröndal, Stockholm. Together with a zoning plan to transform the industrial area on the nearby waterfront into new housing, the neighborhood forms a context and case study – functioning as a container for experimentation. This locality and its proximity to different public(s) form a foundation to develop methodologies and projects in relation to place – applicable to future projects, methods, and practices beyond this specific location.
OPI Lab is developed and directed by artist and professor Jonas Dahlberg and led together with curator and writer Jasmine Hinks as adjunct lecturer. Visit OPI Lab’s storefront at Gröndalsvägen 1, 117 66 Stockholm.
Applications are submitted via the Royal Institute of Art’s website. Link in bio for how to apply!
Image: Båtbron (Boatbridge) by OPI Lab 2024/25 participants Lodewijk Heylen & Ingrid Agathe Bay-Larsen in collaboration with TSSM & HBK, for OPI Lab Festival in June 2025. Credit: Jonas Dahlberg
@opi_lab
@kungl.konsthogskolan
@jonas_dahlberg_
@jashinks
How can practitioners working in art, architecture and related fields create their own conditions, define their own roles, initiate their own projects, and negotiate values that might be overlooked – or even unwelcome – in contexts where they are often not even invited?
Of Public Interest (OPI) Lab is a yearly advanced course at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm, situated in a practice-based research environment. The course is open to international applications from a diverse group of practices: visual artists, architects, landscape architects, curators, cultural producers, policy makers, and other associated fields. The group of 16 professional practitioners meets ten times during the year, each time for a week-long intensive session in Stockholm.
Central to OPI Lab is an interest in our shared living environment and in navigating how to initiate and realize projects where imagination meets critical thought and a genuine interest in how one’s practice meets a place, its context, histories, and publics.
The setting for the ten sessions is a storefront in a residential area in Gröndal, Stockholm. Together with a zoning plan to transform the industrial area on the nearby waterfront into new housing, the neighborhood forms a context and case study – functioning as a container for experimentation. This locality and its proximity to different public(s) form a foundation to develop methodologies and projects in relation to place – applicable to future projects, methods, and practices beyond this specific location.
OPI Lab is developed and directed by artist and professor Jonas Dahlberg and led together with curator and writer Jasmine Hinks as adjunct lecturer. Visit OPI Lab’s storefront at Gröndalsvägen 1, 117 66 Stockholm.
Applications are submitted via the Royal Institute of Art’s website. Link in bio for how to apply!
Image: Båtbron (Boatbridge) by OPI Lab 2024/25 participants Lodewijk Heylen & Ingrid Agathe Bay-Larsen in collaboration with TSSM & HBK, for OPI Lab Festival in June 2025. Credit: Jonas Dahlberg
@opi_lab
@kungl.konsthogskolan
@jonas_dahlberg_
@jashinks
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