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Help us develop Of Public Interest (OPI) and continue our work across art, architecture, and beyond to insist that artistic languages must play an active role in society. OPI comprises three entities: OPI Lab for research and education, OPI Public for public work, and OPI X for project development.

Your contribution through a symbolic purchase will go entirely toward developing and building up our not-for-profit work through artistic experimentation, conviviality, dialogue, and exchange. Over time we will create a register on this website acknowledging our contributors.

Coffee

€ 5 EUR

Our doors are always open for dialogue and exchange with publics. Support us so we can welcome guests with a cup of coffee and a conversation about the conditions that shape how we live together.

Soup

€ 10 EUR

Once a month, we cook, offering food to share and test what we do – as well as invite others to present what could or should be of public interest. Support us so we can welcome guests with a bowl of soup.

Small tools

€ 20 EUR

Small tools endure a lot of wear and tear as we share skills and prototype. Sometimes, things fall apart. Support us in replacing the essentials so we can continue building new things together.

Medium tools

€ 40 EUR

As conditions shaping how we live together rapidly shift, so do the frameworks within which artistic expression can exist. Support us with the intellectual tools we need to reimagine our living environment.

Big tools

€ 100 EUR

We test, develop, and experiment by sketching and prototyping at a 1:1 scale in our living environment. Support us with a contribution to the larger tools we need for our non-profit public work.

Prototypes

€ 1 000 EUR

Having the tools is not enough – we also need the materials for making prototypes. Support us with a contribution to the work that explores what is, what could be, and what should be Of Public Interest.

About Of Public InterestIn 2014, Jonas Dahlberg won the international competition for the creation of memorials to commemorate the victims of the 2011 terror attack in Oslo and on Utøya. The winning proposal was never realized after a small group of residents near the proposed memorial site of Utøya sued the government. Subsequently, politicians responded by cancelling the project after four years of work, and just one month before construction was set to begin. In the aftermath, Dahlberg had to contend with the complexities of public mourning, private motivations, media, government, and institutional oversight. The questions generated by this prompted Dahlberg to start Of Public Interest (OPI).

Today, as the conditions that shape how we live together rapidly shift, so do the frameworks within which artistic expression can exist. Such frameworks are determined through dialogues, actions, and negotiations that define the possibilities and limits of art, reflecting back on any given society – shaping it and its futures.

Want to find out more? Interested in contributing to OPI, or collaborating in other ways? Reach out to us at hello@of-public-interest.com