Of Public Interest (OPI) is a platform operating across art, architecture, and beyond. OPI comprises three co-existing entities that structurally support and continually inform each other: OPI Lab for research and education, OPI Public for public work, and OPI X for initiating, supporting and developing projects.
Of Public Interest mission is to work with our shared living environment and in navigating how to initiate and realize projects within it – sometimes beyond existing frameworks, sometimes by working critically within them – and at times through negotiating values that are overlooked, unasked for, and even unwanted
OPI was founded and is led by artist and professor Jonas Dahlberg, and is located in a former storefront space in a residential neighborhood in Stockholm – and the changing industrial area in which it is situated. The storefront is where we work, but it also acts as a form of spatial publication, a public(loc)ation. From here we can test, develop, and experiment with multifaceted languages and methodologies through sketching and prototyping at scale 1:1 in our living environment. The neighborhood itself becomes our atelier; its publics, contexts, and actors our conversation partners.
This forms a foundation from which we can shape future projects, methods, and practices elsewhere — beyond this specific location.
