What is the BMW Guggenheim Lab?

The BMW Guggenheim Lab is a mobile laboratory that will be travelling to major cities worldwide in the coming years. Comprising young, international teams from the areas of urbanism, architecture, art, design, science, technology and sustainability, the BMW Guggenheim Lab addresses issues of contemporary urban life through projects, experiments and public discourse. Its goal is the exploration of new ideas, experimentation and, ultimately, the creation of forward-thinking solutions for urban life.

Part urban think tank, part interdisciplinary gathering space, the BMW Guggenheim Lab is conceived to engage public discourse in cities around the world and through the BMW Guggenheim Lab website and online social networks.

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The BMW Guggenheim Lab Berlin.

The real-life lab and the online lab

All members of public may take part in the programmes in the lab free of charge. Further, people from all round the world can get actively involved in many different ways via the BMW Guggenheim Lab website and social networks.

The BMW Guggenheim Lab Mumbai.

Architecture

With a structural skeleton built of carbon fibre, the lightweight and compact BMW Guggenheim Lab for the first cycle was designed by the Tokyo-based architecture company Atelier Bow-Wow.

Atelier Bow-Wow – The architects who designed the BMW Guggenheim Lab.

Team

People from all four corners of the globe are involved in the BMW Guggenheim Lab − ranging from architects and graphic designers to the prestigious ‘Advisory Committee’ as well as the up-and-coming talents within the Lab Team itself.