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Our vision is to make visualization a tool for everyone. Which clarifies, unites and helps us achieve sustainability together. Through collaboration, we develop new ways of visualizing. We initiate and run projects, gather expertise and spread knowledge.
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Find Solutions to Your Challenges with Visual Arena
At Visual Arena, we explore and experiment with the power of visualization in innovative projects. We are a team of experts in XR, digital twins, the metaverse, and information visualization, who work together with you to uncover actionable insights for the future and society.
As part of Lindholmen Science Park's program portfolio, we are located in the heart of Gothenburg's Lindholmen Innovation District.
Innovate with Us!
Do you want to bring your ideas to life through a network where academia, art, public actors, and industry converge? Are you interested in exploring how visualization can transform your concepts into engaging experiences?
If these questions pique your curiosity, Visual Arena is your innovation platform for experimenting and finding new answers.
Research project explores how drama pedagogy, visualization, and scenography can contribute to Education
How can theaters be part of education and promote innovative teaching practices? How does visualization become a teaching tool in drama pedagogical processes, creating new teaching worlds? The project Theaters as Teaching Environments , led by the doctoral candidate Salti Theodora at the University of Lapland and in collaboration with Visual Arenas Residency for Innovators in Art, focuses on how the physical environment of a theater can become an active part of the teaching process. Using drama pedagogy, visualization and senses, participants travel in multisensory experiences and are...
Visual Arena - Experience To Insights Lab: Thesis Opportunity for Master Students
Are you a master student with a passion for immersive experiences and visualization? Visual Arena’s Experience To Insights Lab invites you to take on a thesis challenge, were you will work alongside fellow students to explore the potential of immersive technology in redefining public art and experiences.
Gorki Glaser-Müller on socially beneficial innovation.
With a background in film, theater and XR, Gorki Glaser-Müller contributes his expertise in storytelling and immersive technologies to the Visual Arena. We sat down to discuss his role at Visual Arena, his visions and thoughts about the future of media and storytelling.
Open Call: Narrative XR Lab – Where storytelling and technology meets
Calling all creatives, storytellers, and technologists! Join us for a unique opportunity to experiment, innovate, and create at the Narrative XR Lab.
Future events at Visual Arena, Lindholmen Science Park
Last day of applying to the Narrative XR Lab
When the city comes alive: Can virtual residents change urban development?
Explore Virtual Worlds Event Series 3
Join us for this event series where we will explore the best virtual words and Metaverse...
Explore Virtual Worlds Event Series 4
Join us for this event series where we will explore the best virtual words and Metaverse...
Explore Virtual Worlds Event Series Final Event
Join us for this event series where we will explore the best virtual words and Metaverse...
Some of our innovation projects
Digital twin for circular food systems
The goal of this project is to address the challenges arising from the transition to circular food systems combined with adapting to digital information structures and resources. By combining these...
GULD: Visualization to Teach Middle School Students About Biodiversity
GULD is an education and innovation project aimed at developing and exploring new ways to teach middle school students about biodiversity through visualization techniques. Based on extensive research...
Narrative XR LAB 2025
Welcome to the Narrative XR Lab—a space designed for artists and technologists to explore storytelling through Extended Reality (XR). Over the course of two months, you'll participate in a lab, attend...
Operaverse
What is the digital performing arts of the future, and what might it look like? We find out in the preliminary study with the working name Operaverse.
Virtual Gothenburg Lab
Through Virtual Gothenburg Lab, we make Gothenburg city’s digital twin available to those who wish to co-create the city of the future.
Let's make visualization a tool for everyone
You can participate in various ways, such as involvement in focus areas, strategy advice, project applications, project participation, making technology available, events and knowledge dissemination.
Experience to Insights Lab
Here, students explore burning topics through innovation and design sprints. Are you ready for a journey where curiosity and creativity are used to create a brighter future that we will be proud to contribute to? Then Visual Arena's Experience to Insights Lab could be your next step!
Get invitations to our events!
At Visual Arena, seminars, workshops, conferences and other activities are arranged with the aim of spreading insights from our innovation projects, developing skills, inspiring and bringing the industry together, partly under its own auspices and partly in collaboration with others.
Residency for innovators in ART
Vi bjuder in dig som konstnär att bli en del av vår gemenskap och utforska nya gränser inom konsten genom vårt residensprogram i Göteborg. Som deltagare i vårt konstnärsresidens får du fri tillgång till våra faciliteter och verktyg och blir en del av vårt innovativa nätverk.
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Research project explores how drama pedagogy, visualization, and scenography can contribute to Education
How can theaters be part of education and promote innovative teaching practices? How does visualization become a teaching tool in drama pedagogical processes, creating new teaching worlds? The project...
Visual Arena - Experience To Insights Lab: Thesis Opportunity for Master Students
Are you a master student with a passion for immersive experiences and visualization? Visual Arena’s Experience To Insights Lab invites you to take on a thesis challenge, were you will work alongside...
Från Narrative XR Lab till Venedig Film Festival 2023
Just nu pågår Venedig filmfestival som även firar 80 årsjubileum. På plats finns göteborgsbaserade Nerve Creations som tillsammans med GötaFilm utvecklar VR-spelet Reach Out. Medskaparen och...
Andrea Östlund explores Extended Reality (XR): "new thoughts about what storytelling is"
Andrea Östlund, Swedish film director and screenwriter, is now stepping into new media to explore additional ways of telling stories. After participating in the Narrative XR Lab, where she immersed...
From Narrative XR Lab to Venedig Film Festival 2023
The Venice Film Festival is currently underway, which is also celebrating its 80th anniversary. On site are Gothenburg-based Nerve Creations, which together with GötaFilm develops the VR game Reach...
Gorki Glaser-Müller on socially beneficial innovation.
With a background in film, theater and XR, Gorki Glaser-Müller contributes his expertise in storytelling and immersive technologies to the Visual Arena. We sat down to discuss his role at Visual Arena...
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You are welcome to contact us or stop by for a cup of coffee, we’re usually here!
Gorki Glaser-Müller
Visual Arena
Project manager
Narrative VR Lab/ The future's cinema
Lotta Cabrera Persson
Visual Arena
Project Manager Production
Carl-Fredrik Hansson
Visual Arena
Communications manager
Caisa Sixtensdotter
Visual Arena
Visual Designer
Anna Laurin
Visual Arena
Project manager
Pre study User Experience Excellence
