Mirjam Struppek works internationally as urbanist, researcher and curator. She has lectured and published essays with a special focus on livability of urban space, public sphere and its transformation and acquisition through new media. Mirjam has been instrumental in building the Urban Screens community and the international Urban Screens conference series. Together with Susa Pop (Public Art Lab) she initiated the Media Facades Festivals Berlin 2008 and Europe 2010.
 From 2005 to 2007 she organized the monthly discussion evening Urban Media Salon.