We are a physical venue for curatorial projects and exhibitions. Rather than focusing on result-oriented exhibitions that function as ends in themselves, we aim to be a generous space where professional agencies, processes and methods, collectivity and co-creation, disagreements and differences can meet and thrive in dialogue with the public. Thus, we engage in exhibition-making that centres and nourishes the research, methods, and work processes of artists and architects. By empahsising the importance of developing such project-oriented and collective exhibition formats, we invite the public into ongoing research processes, through disseminative strategies which seek to build new relations and understandings between the professional practitioners and various publics.

In line with our view of exhibitions as ongoing processes rather than final results, we facilitate ROM Studio. This format can be seen as a working exhibition, where invited artists, architects, curators, and researchers become an integral part of the ROM team for two weeks. Each period marks the beginning of an open, experimental, and expanding collaboration in which different field-specific working processes and methods are made accessible to the public. By inviting audiences into this setting, we aim to make the knowledge and insights generated by artistic explorations and artistic research accessible to the public.

Our motivation for launching the online publishing platform Metode, in 2022, was to enable new interdisciplinary relations between practice-based research and textual production to form; between independent freelancers and research institutes and educational institutions; and between young aspiring voices and established thinkers and researchers. Metode creates new networks between Norwegian and international artists, architects, historians and researchers. The editorial board announces an annual “Call for Essays”, whereby the accepted writers develop their texts through co-writing and workshops, facilitated by the editorial board at ROM. Metode aims at contributing to creating a more accessible and inclusive discourse -and mode of knowledge production within the field of art and architecture.

Arkitekturfilm Oslo has, since its startup in 2016, been a unique contribution to the field of architecture in Oslo and throughout Norway. The annual festival, which centres dissemination of architectural insights to the public, has previously taken place at institutions such as ROM, Cinemateket, DOGA, Vega Scene, The National Museum, and Kunstnernes Hus Kino. The festival is the central meeting place for architecture films in Norway, and aims to facilitate and generate discussions on architecture and sociopolitical concerns.

ROM UNG is ROM’s youth program, aligned with our aim of making the fields of art and architecture more diverse and representative. ROM UNG is a dissemination initiative designed to strengthen children and young people’s interest in art, architecture, placemaking, and the role of public space in shaping culture, nature, landscape, and climate. When questioning the power dynamics within these fields—asking whose voices are included and whose are excluded—it becomes essential to involve children and youth in our activities. In the long term, this helps them envision themselves as future architects, urban planners, artists, and filmmakers, regardless of their social and cultural background and affiliation.