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BETWEENstitute
@
transmediale

BETWEENstitute speculates on new hybrid models for culture and develops future visions for Berlin cultural networks involved in research, production and distribution of media culture.

BETWEENstitute is developed and curated on invitation by transmediale and CTM Festival.

Presentation & Discussion BETWEENstitute @ transmediale, Kuppelhalle silent green, Gerichtstraße 35, 13347 Berlin, 16.00-17.30, 30 January 2025

Humboldt
Futures
@
Atlas
der
Datenkörper

The Humboldt Forum’s reconstructed baroque exterior of the demolished Berlin Palace evokes associations with the imperial German and Prussian past, while it houses Berlin’s ethnographic collections and is promoted as a place of “dialogue with the world’s cultures”.

Publication Humboldt Futures @ Atlas der Datenkörper 2, Transcript Verlag, Germany, 27 May 2024

KOSMOS
@
TAZ

Interview by Felix Hofmann, journalist at the Berlin TAZ newspaper in the TAZ Schlossaneignung Blog.

Humboldt KOSMOS facilitates a transcultural exchange and negotiates the diverse conflict situations surrounding today’s forum and its practices.

Together with Gamelab of Humboldt-UniversitÀt zu Berlin we organized the initial international workshop Humboldt Futures in Berlin in Januari 2024.

Interview & Publication, Felix Hofmann @ TAZ, Berlin, 27 November 2024

Poly
Garden
City
@
SHEDIA
Magazine

Playgrounds, gardens, sports areas.

The roofs of apartment buildings can become a true above-ground city, with multiple benefits for the environment and our socializing.

Interview, Spyros Zonakis @ SHEDIA magazine 111, Athens, May 2023

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Daring
Design
@
Tagesspiegel

As adventurous as Humboldt himself:
The design by the architecture firm Hybrid Space Lab for the Berlin Palace.

Publication, Julia Weiss, Journalist @ Tagesspiegel, Berlin, 31 January 2023

Humboldt
Volcano
@
RBB
Radio

A sort of staircase enveloped in jungle thickets, a waterfall and food offerings on the way up to the roof of Berlin’s city castle.

This is how the architecture firm Hybrid Space Lab introduces Humboldt Volcano.

Publication @ RBB, Berlin, 5 February 2023

hybrid
@
tanz
Yearbook

For tanz Yearbook 2022, the international magazine for ballet, dance and performance, we have written the lead article “hybrid” focussing on the body in space in the context of the fusion of the physical and the digital: the Hybrid.

Publication hybrid @ tanz Yearbook 2022, Germany, 19 August 2022

Post
COVID-19
City @
KHM
#0 Magazine

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the use of digital instruments is rapidly increasing.

As the possible consequences of digitization are more sharply outlined, this opens new possibilities for spatial organization.

This urges us to reconsider the guiding principles and models for the urbanization of technology we want to follow and what our city visions are.

Publication Post COVID-19 Hybrid City @ Academy of Media Arts, KHM #0 Magazine, Cologne, Germany, 1 July 2022
Publication Recht auf hybride Stadt @ Marlowes Online-Magazin fĂŒr Architektur und Stadt, Stuttgart, Germany, 20 May 2020

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Uncomfortable
Memory
@
ARA
Newspaper

Article in the leading Catalan newspaper ARA on how Spanish authorities are relocating symbols of the dictatorship.

“An Augmented Reality app would make visible what Franco wanted to hide and would bring out everything that is hidden and buried in the Valley, transforming the totalitarian story into a polyphonic memory,” says Frans Vogelaar.

Publication Uncomfortable Memory, SĂ­lvia Marimon Molas @ ARA Catalan Newspaper, Barcelona, 16 July 2022

Iannis
Xenakis
@
Deutschlandfunk
Kultur

Radio interview on the occasion of Iannis Xenakis’ 100th birthday about his work and importance as an architect.

Interview, Britta BĂŒrger Pioneer of Hybrid Spaces: The Sound Architect Iannis Xenakis @ Fazit, Deutschlandfunk Kultur, Germany, 29 May 2022

Hybrid
Space
@
Lithuanian
Architectural
Foundation

Investigating and speculating on the future of social and cultural spaces requires considering physical spaces in combination with digital media networks, emphasizing the hybrid qualities of spaces in the interplay of the digital and the physical.

Publication Hybrid Spaces @ Regeneration [and its Discontents], Lithuanian Architectural Foundation, Vilnius, Lithuania, 4 June 2021

Informing
instead
of
glorifying
@
archithese

Hybrid Space Lab analyzed “Valley of the Fallen” near Madrid, the pompous tomb for the fascist dictator Francisco Franco, and suggests leaving it unchanged but covering it with a new critical layer by using Augmented Reality to make hidden layers visible and write history from the victim’s perspective.
Publication Informing instead of glorifying, JĂžrg Himmelreich, @ archithese, Switserland, 28 November 2020

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Caring
Future
Lab
@
FURTUROMONDO

What does an integrated approach look like that brings together the physical and digital dimensions of care, providing impetus for innovative solutions in the areas of care and prevention?

How can we combine the best of technological innovations and digital and hybrid solutions with the socio-cultural dimensions of prevention and care?

Together we are developing the healthy city – a 15-Minute City with 5-Minute Communities, committed to the One Health concept!

Keynote & Panel Caring Future Lab @ FUTUROMONDO Foresight, Future Urban Economies Forum, Stuttgart, Germany, 3 July 2025

BETWEENstitute
@
transmediale
&
CTM Festival

BETWEENstitute speculates on new hybrid models for culture and develops future visions for Berlin cultural networks involved in research, production and distribution of media culture.

BETWEENstitute is developed and curated on invitation by transmediale and CTM Festival.

Workshop SPIEL lab @ Hybrid Space Lab, Berlin, 10.00-13.00, 28 January 2025
Roundtable Discussion BETWEENstitute @ transmediale, Kuppelhalle silent green, Berlin, 16.00-17.30, 30 January 2025
Workshops BETWEENstitute @ Hybrid Space Lab, Berlin, 15 March-15 July 2025

Hybrid
Face

In the Digital Age, the face has become the most important representation of our identity.
To show ourselves to the world we use selfies and Zoom-meetings, which focus on the face.

And digital facial recognition and emotional detection promise to identify the other on the basis of the face, and even unveil their most secret feelings.

This focus on the face is not only the direct consequence of technical developments, but is also the result of a deeper desire stirring contemporary society.
Book Presentation, Discussion & Dinner, Merlijn Schoonenboom, Cultural Historian and Journalist @ INbetweenSTITUTE, Hybrid Space Lab, Berlin, Autumn 2024

KOSMOS

KOSMOS is an experimental global digital and hybrid space and infrastructure for the future culture.

KOSMOS opens to all people and communities worldwide who have Internet access to participate in this co-creative hybrid gaming platform to interact with challenges and collectively envision new futures with the aim for its ever- expanding speculative worlds to provoke, inspire, and inform our thoughts.
KOSMOS @ Hybrid Space Lab, 2024

Humboldt
Futures

Humboldt Futures develops a globally accessible co-creative gaming platform for exchange and participative collective production in order to negotiate dystopian and to envision positive cultural futures.

Humboldt Futures is an experimentation space for ideating the future of museums, a hybrid environment with immersive interfaces to the physical space.

In collaboration with gamelab.berlin at Humboldt-UniversitÀt zu Berlin.

Dinner, Workshop & Public Presentation & Discussion Humboldt Futures @ Humboldt UniversitÀt zu Berlin, Berlin, 18.00-21.00, 11-12 January 2024

co
SPECIES
lab

Ecological transition implies and demands a conceptual mutation, a paradigm shift.

This global transition has to integrate systems of knowledge and ways of conceiving the world, some of which are still organizing the daily lives of the inhabitants of cities in the Global South, and are often shunned and disregarded in the Global North.
Festival #1 Multi Species Habitat @ WɔɛLab, LomĂ©, Togo, 27 November 2023

CRISIS
design

Hybrid Space Lab contributes with the lecture CRISIS design to Designing beyond Crisis at Berlin Science Week 2023.

CRISIS design focusses on creativity as a catalyst in difficult political processes and new visions for socio-ecological transformation.
Lecture CRISIS design @ Designing beyond Crisis, Berlin Science Week 2023, 18.30-20.00, 2 November 2023

Club
Futures

Club Futures is an international laboratory with the aim of developing new future-oriented perspectives for the club and cultural scene.

Exchange, Ideation, Research, Panels, Parties, Prototyping, Workshops Club Futures, @ Hybrid Space Lab, Berlin, Amsterdam, 2020~2023
Workshop Animal Club @ Amsterdam Dance Event & SEXYLAND World, 1 Noordwal, Amsterdam, 18.30-24.00, 20 October 2022
Workshop Next Stop Culture, Co-Hosted by Clubcommission Berlin @ transmediale & CTM Festival, Re:mise, Köpenicker Strasse 18, Berlin, 14.00-20.00, 25 January 2023

Next
Stop
Culture

Next Stop Culture explores how no-longer used spaces of the mobility infrastructure can be integrated to create high-quality cultural unthought-of, discovery-filled urban spaces.

Pioneering settings to further develop the city culturally, and to protect Berlin’s long-lasting and flourishing cultural landscape, the workshop aims at envisioning spaces of cultural reclaim – integrating cultural performances as natural sequences 

Workshop Co-Hosted by Clubcommission Berlin @ transmediale & CTM Festival, Re:mise, Köpenicker Strasse 18, 10997 Berlin, 25 January 2023

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Hybrid
Crossover

Hybrid Space Lab’s innovative concepts have been incorporated as recommendations to Berlin Senat in the White Paper of the Creative & Tech Festival Berlin.
Concept Hybrid & Crossover @ White Paper Creative Festival Berlin, 12 June 2023

ANIMAL
fest

ANIMALfest investigates and celebrates the future of urban culture and creativity at the crossroads of technological innovation and the pressing urgency of biodiversity loss.

ANIMALfest integrates club culture, music, sound and tech as well as many other creativity fields, such as gaming, theatre, dance, performance, children’s programmes and science.
Public Presentation & Discussion ANIMALfest @ THFxIMPULSE Event, Flughafen Tempelhof, Berlin, 31 May 2023

fest
CITY

festCITY consists of a radical, situated approach to embed festival and cultural events into the city.

This entails a process-oriented think-tank with a crossover and hybrid approach to sustainably integrate festival-designing and -making into the urban landscape.

Lecture festCITY, Town Hall Meeting #1 @ betahaus, Berlin, 22 March 2023

Startup
Energy
Transition
Festival

Startup Energy Transition (SET Tech) Festival 2023 brings together a global network of innovators shaping the future of energy by start-ups, innovation-driven corporates, investors & public organisations.

The conference takes place alongside the Berlin Energy Transition Dialogue, the international conference organized by the German Federal Foreign Office and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action.

Concept Panel Moderation & Lecture Building a Sustainable Future: Offsetting Emissions in Smart Cities @ Startup Energy Transition Festival 2023, Berlin, 28 March 2023

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circulariCITY

Digitalisation and sustainability are increasingly present within our society.

We are facing big societal and global challenges to create a fair and sustainable design of our world.

Bits & BĂ€ume fosters the collaboration between environmental- and social justice activists, technical experts and human rights activists.

Presentation & Workshop circulariCITY @ Bits & BĂ€ume 2022 Conference for Digitization and Sustainability, Technical University Berlin, 1 October 2022

circulariCITY

The notion of a circular city has taken to occupy center stage as a main concept for sustainable zero-waste urban futures.

Because of its overwhelming complexity, urban circularity has conventionally been handled within clearly defined distinct disciplinary domains.

Nevertheless, crosscutting and intersecting its multiple dimensions is needed in order to find an approach to the circular city that reflects the complexity of urban ecosystems.
Presentation & Workshop Cities in the Loop: Re-coding the Circular City @ Hybrid Space Lab, Berlin, 1 July 2022

Hybrid
Space

Hybrid Space is the focus of the new edition of Digital Leaders in Architecture, a platform providing innovative food for thought for architects.
Interview & Lecture Hybrid Space @ Digital Leaders in Architecture, SchĂŒco International KG, Berlin, 1 July 202

Hybrid
Heritage

Hybridization enables us to focus on the interconnection of different domains, temporalities, and actors at different levels, overcoming and rejecting hierarchies, and grand narratives. (Lyotard, 1979)

The emergence of the “trans”, the plural, and the augmented enables us to frame critical perspectives on heritage constructs. (Gwiazdzinksi, 2016)

Lecture Hybrid Heritage @ UNA University Alliance Europe, Panthéon-Sorbonne University, Galerie Colbert, 2 rue Vivienne, Paris, 31 March 2021, Online, 1 July 2022

perma
CRISIS

Contemporary societies are faced with multiple crises, including climate change, biodiversity loss, social injustice and turmoil, geopolitical conflict and war, humanitarian crises, energy emergency and food insecurity.
Newsletter Permacrisis @ Hybrid Space Lab, 10 June 2022

Conflict
Space

Deep Space is a long-term investigative program, dealing with politics of memory, controversial space and monuments, digitalization and heritage.
Lecture & Workshop Conflict Space @ ISEA 2022 Symposium “Possibilities”, Heritage and Futures @ Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona, 12 June 2022 & 14 June 2022

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The Future is not Digital
Hybrid is the Future!

What are engaging, inclusive, and sustainable hybrid formats and spaces for art and culture?

The onsite and online workshop is part of dive in “New Forms of Participation and Interaction”, the digital cultural innovation program of the German Federal Cultural Foundation (Bundeskulturstiftung).
Keynote Future Cultural Space @ Kulturstiftung des Bundes, HoloLab – dive in Program for Digital Interaction, Halle an der Saale, Germany, 16.00 – 17.00, 22 September 2021 Hybrid Workshop The Future is not Digital. Hybrid is the Future! @ Kulturstiftung des Bundes, HoloLab – dive in Program for Digital Interaction, 13.30–18.00, 14 October 2021

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Hybrid
Staging

With its physical distancing measures, the COVID-19 pandemic is destroying public space as we know it.

The current crisis creates the necessity – and emergency – to rethink cultural space.

Research, Lectures & Workshops @ Kulturstiftung des Bundes, HoloLab – dive in Program for Digital Interaction, Halle an der Saale, Germany, 16.00 – 17.00, 22 September 2021 & 14 November 2020

Voiced
Space

Over centuries, Dutch cities have been defined and grown aided by the benefits resulting from Dutch colonial rule in overseas territories.

How to read contemporary cities in light of their historical relations to former colonies and how to contribute to the formation of an inclusive collective cultural heritage?
Lectures, Workshops & Conference International Research Program @ Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, 2019~2022