WHO IS THE PUBLIC?
WHAT IS THE PLACE?
HOW CAN ART REFLECT -- AND REFLECT ON -- BOTH?
OUR WORKSHOPS​
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BostonAPP/Lab hosts issue-and-action Workshops, informed by the interplay of the art, the public, and the place. The Workshops seek to provide a forum in which to poke and probe for new, robust, and dynamic collaborations that strengthen and sustain arts in Greater Boston’s public places.
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To date, the Lab has produced nearly three dozen of these collaborations – “brainstorming hubs” for discussion, for experimentation, for making art – that in turn have attracted nearly 500 participants. In designing and facilitating these workshops, the Lab has engaged, as co-leaders, nearly 60 representatives of arts organizations, city and local agencies, individual artists, designers, schools, and universities. Areas of focus have included technology, urban design, and community-building, among others.
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CULTIVATING COLLABORATION
Implicit in each of the Lab's Workshops is the emphasis on the phrase: Who's the public? Where's the place? How can art reflect both?
Below is a look at one of our earlier workshops, which provided the impetus for what eventually became the ArtsCommons, while seeking to respond to these questions.
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