Of Public Interest Lab is a satellite to the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm and forms the foundation of a new field of research that we have come to call Artistic Living Environment, which explores the specific role of art in shaping our living environments.

The Lab operates a year-long multidisciplinary course for professional practitioners and serves as the research environment for other researchers, including a PhD fellow.

The Lab is located in OPI’s headquarters in a storefront in Gröndal in Stockholm, an area that is undergoing significant change during the coming 10 years. Here we are in constant dialogue with its public and the different actors involved in that process. We test, develop and experiment with methodologies through sketching and prototyping in scale 1:1 in our living environment. We use public space as our atelier and the people and context in public space as our conversation partners.
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Open Call 4 March - 15 April 2026

We seek a group of 16 professional practitioners to join the course starting in September 2026. The course is divided up into 10 week long sessions and runs over a 10 month. We welcome artists, architects, landscape architects, curators, cultural producers, policy makers, and people from other associated fields. Read more about the course and application process here.  

Read more about our current PhD, artist Runo Lagomarsino, here.