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City Lab
Berlin
2019

City Making in the Digital Age
Berlin
21\2\2019

Diplomacy Lab
Brussels
7\2\2019

Water Conscious Fashion
Berlin
16\1\2019

GRÜNtopia
Berlin
22\6\2018

Digital Diplomacy
Den Haag
2\2018

NatureTecture
1\2018

Fabric
documenta 14
Athens
8\4\2017

Future Diplomacy
7\10\2016

DESIGN
LAB

Deep Space
Madrid
2018/2019

DMZpace
Korea
2019

Humboldt Volcano
Berlin
2016\2017\2018\2019

Humboldt Jungle
Berlin
2015\2016\2017

Poly Garden City
Athens
2015\2016

INbetweenSTITUTE
Beijing
2014

Smart & the City
Hannover
2014

NEWS

Deep Space
Screenings
Talks & Discussions
21-28 June 2019

@ Goethe Institut
Madrid

21 February 2019
City Lab
City Making in the Digital Age
@ HIIG Berlin

Marleen Stikker is the keynote speaker at City Lab: City Making in the Digital Age that Hybrid Space Lab is organizing together with Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society on Thursday 21 February 2019.

Marleen is the co-founder of WAAG Society, an Amsterdam based interdisciplinary non-profit media lab and research institute. In her work, she aims to put social values at the core of technology by creating and promoting open, fair and inclusive innovations. She has been active in the field of internet and digital activism since the early nineties.

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Deep Space @ Bnieuws TU Delft

Working on places of conflict can be extremely challenging. As soon as a polarised discussion is addressed with a proposal, it is bound to cause some sort of backlash by at least one of the affected parties. There is no clear way out of it. Or is there? Architecture practice Hybrid Space Lab takes a rather unique approach for the re-signification of the controversial site of Valle de los Caídos in Madrid, the burial ground of Spain’s dictator Francisco Franco and 33,000 victims of the country’s brutal civil war.


Article by Elena Rossoni @ Bnieuws TU Delft, The Netherlands, 5 February 2019

Concept
Research
Strategy
Theory

Deep Space:
re-signifying
Valle de los Caídos

Deep Space is a long-term investigative program initiated to deal with politics of memory, controversial monuments, heritage and digitalization.

How to transform and re-signify Valle de los Caídos (“Valley of the Fallen”), the Francoist monument in the Sierra de Guadarrama close to Madrid?Valle de los Caídos with its 152-meter-tall cross visible from more than 30 kilometers away and its “basilica”, a 263-meter long crypt with a 52-meter high vault cut out of the granite mountain rock, is one of the world’s most controversial monuments.

The Hague
Digital Diplomacy
Un-Conference
2018

Embassy Lab, 2 February 2018, The Hague Digital Diplomacy Un-Conference 2018, @ Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Hague, The Netherlands

The combination of physical and media space, of local place and digital networks, is coined Hybrid Space. Space today is transformed by technologies such as Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR) or Mixed Reality, becoming increasingly hybrid. With the Internet of Things (IoT) Hybrid Space is becoming ubiquitous. Artificial Intelligence and Big Data have the ambition and potential to algorithmically manage these Hybrid Spaces.

Architecture
Design
Media
Urbanism

City Lab
@
Alexander von Humboldt
Institute for Internet and Society

City Lab provides a platform for Smart Citizens, bridging the gap between data- and city-experts and civil society and governance and addressing compelling issues at the merging of the Digital Age and the Urban Age.City Lab is a a co-operation between Hybrid Space Lab and Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society.The kick-off event of the City Lab series will take place on February 21st 2019 with a keynote lecture by Marleen Stikker, co-founder of WAAG Society and focus on City Making in the Digital Age.

Humboldt
Vulkan
@
MakeCity
Berlin

As an innovative flexible transparent structure, Humboldt Volcano contrasts with the historical appearance of the introverted power-radiating reconstruction of the Berlin palace, which houses Humboldt Forum.
Humboldt Volcano, standing for a pluralistic multiculturalism, enables the appropriation of the Humboldt Forum, opening it up to the city and international public.