Is Your City Public or Private? Play the BMW Guggenheim Lab Game

Following the conclusion of its successful run in Mumbai in January 2013, the BMW Guggenheim Lab launched "Public/Private," an interactive game that expands the Lab’s exploration of privacy and public space. Share where you find privacy, then compare your city with the world.

During the Mumbai Lab, several projects explored the relationship between privacy and space in Mumbai, including a research project developed in collaboration with Partners for Urban Knowledge, Action and Research (PUKAR) and a visual survey examining Mumbaikars’ perception of privacy—a collaboration with the Design Cell at Kamla Raheja Vidyanidji Institute for Architecture and Environmental Studies (KRVIA).

The BMW Guggenheim Lab, a co-initiative of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and the BMW Group, is designed to raise awareness and generate conversations about important urban challenges in cities around the world. The Lab launched in New York (August 3 – October 16, 2011) with a focus on the theme of Confronting Comfort; next, it traveled to Berlin (June 15 – July 29, 2012), where the programming emphasized citizen participation in shaping cities. The Lab then opened at multiple sites in Mumbai (December 9 – January 20, 2013), where projects and programs explored perceptions of privacy and public space.

This fall, the Guggenheim Museum in New York will host an exhibition highlighting key learnings from the Lab’s first three stops. For details about the exhibition and future plans for the BMW Guggenheim Lab, sign up for the Lab’s email newsletter.

A new game that explores the topic of privacy in our cities.