OPEN SPACE MUSEUM / OSM
A modular platform for public art, participation and performative museum experiences
The Open Space Museum proposes that the museum is no longer only a building, but a social behaviour in public space.
Conceived as a modular and mobile platform, the project creates temporary museum situations in streets, squares, landscapes and public settings. It brings together architecture, sound, augmented reality, performative objects and participatory formats to produce shared cultural experiences outside the conventional museum space.
The Open Space Museum is shaped by use. Visitors are not passive viewers; they become part of the spatial and social structure of the work. Their movement, attention, conversations and interactions help complete the project as a public cultural situation.
The project connects several strands of Arthur Clay’s practice: social sculpture, performative sound, augmented reality, public art and the concept of the Performative Surround. It functions both as an artwork and as a platform from which new case studies, social elements and engagement formats can emerge.
Its central question is simple: how can people create meaning together in public space?
In this sense, the Open Space Museum is not only a display system. It is a way of rethinking the museum as a shared, temporary and participatory act.
PROJECT STRUCTURE
The Open Space Museum includes modular case study elements, social and performative structures, engagement apps, sound-based formats and public participation tools. These elements can be combined differently according to site, audience and context.
The project operates as an open cultural framework: part exhibition space, part social sculpture, part public instrument and part mobile museum.
MORE INFORMATION
Further material, images, case studies and project documentation are available on the dedicated Open Space Museum project site: