The Weltkulturen Museum in Frankfurt, Germany calls for participation by multidisciplinary users - from artists, to scientists and any creative producers - to share their ideas and work processes in the Museum's new interactive platform OPEN LAB.

Together with the communication and IT agency Cocomore AG, the Weltkulturen Museum has initiated the interactive online platform OPEN LAB, which has been conceived and developed as a digital extension of the Museum’s research and lab activities in Frankfurt am Main.

OPEN LAB makes it possible for the Museum to maintain and extend networks without individuals having to travel to the Museum directly. This open access enables the global and decentralised development of new works as well as the long-distance exchange of knowledge, irrespective of the restrictions implied by specialist fields or national borders.

The innovative online tools are based on currently available Web 2.0 technologies and provide access to objects of the Museum’s ethnographic collection of global material culture in virtual space. Here, the working processes involved in creating a new artwork or a concept can be documented with images, sound files and texts and shared with a global public. Visitors can follow these processes live, comment on them, or become producers themselves.

After registering his or her own user account, the OPEN LAB user can immediately start contributing their own versions by simply clicking on the green V+ Button, found on the project origin circle or other existing versions. Users can also share their contributions with friends and potential project partners and encourage them to take part, using email or social networks like Facebook or Twitter.

We look forward to your contributions!
A complete user manual is available here http://www.weltkulturenmuseum.de/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/130705_open_lab_usermanual_en_0.pdf

Visit www.weltkulturenmuseum.de for further information.