PlaKat turns physical posters and placards found around a city into a searchable, shareable digital layer of local culture. It is a prototype, operated informally from Switzerland for a European audience.
Cities are covered in posters — small concerts, underground parties, exhibitions, workshops, community gatherings, lectures, markets, theatre, screenings. Most of it never reaches a conventional event platform. It goes up on a wall, and then it is gone.
PlaKat is a crowdsourced city poster wall. Anyone can browse it. Contributors photograph the posters they pass, and the platform reads the event details off the image so the posting becomes something you can search, share, and remember. The artwork is the point: the interface is a permanently dark canvas so the posters themselves stay loud.
Every poster that comes down leaves a gap in the record of a city's cultural life. PlaKat keeps that record. Taken together, the wall becomes an archive — a documentation of what was posted, where, and when, city by city and year by year.
We publish poster images to document public postings, not to republish anyone's artwork commercially. Rights to the artwork stay with whoever made it. Rights holders can ask us to remove a poster at any time — see the Terms of Use.