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HYBRID SPACE

Hybrid Space is the fusion of Physical Space and Digital Space.

Hybrid Space is the Ambivalent Space that is simultaneously physical and digital, virtual and material, biological and technological, local and global, tactile and abstract.

LAB

Hybrid Space Lab is a Think Tank and Design Lab for Architecture, Urbanism, Design and Digital Culture.

Cool Cities

Resilient Athens

With our planet getting hotter and hotter, we need to cool down our cities!

Urban climate adaptation, ventilation of the city, Sponge City, green corridors and greening of buildings: Athens will become more resilient to the impacts of climate change, enhance the quality of life for their citizens, and support local biodiversity.

COOL cities @ Municipality of Athens, Deputy Mayor of Athens for Climate Governance and Social Economy Nikos Chrysogelos, Athens, 25 August 2024

Berlin Climate Adaptation

BäumePlus Law

Hybrid Space Lab is developing a visual strategy in support of the climate adaptation law for Berlin “BäumePlus-Gesetz” that is developed by the Berlin NGO BaumEntscheid.

BaumEntscheid wants to make Berlin heat-proof and weather-proof by means of a referendum, so that life in Berlin remains bearable despite heat and extreme weather.

Climate Adaptation @ Berlin, 2025-2026

hAIbrid

AIpocalypse

In the era of AI, creativity represents the ultimate competitive advantage: while machines excel at making predictions based on what already exists, humans possess the creative power to imagine what could be—to imaginatively explore futures.

Creativity constitutes a fundamental human advantage, as it ranks among the few competencies whose value actually increases as automation advances.

hAIbrid @ Berlin, 28 May 2026

Studio Alchimia
@ archithese

Postradical Design Revolution

Studio Alchimia, founded in 1976 by Alessandro and his sister Adriana Guerriero, revolutionised design worldwide.

Studio Alchimia, the post-radical avant-garde group, brought together the most important Italian designers and architects of the 1970s and 1980s, including Alessandro Mendini, Ettore Sottsass and Andrea Branzi.

Publication Studio Alchimia by Hybrid Space Lab @ archithese, Zurich, Switzerland, 8 September 2025

Convers(at)ions

Korean DMZ

Convers(at)ions: Dialogue and Transformation” brings together stakeholders and institutions involved in the development of the European Green Belt and of the Korean DMZ with experts from ecology, creative fields, culture, and conflict analysis and resolution.

online Symposium Convers(at)ions @ Korean Demilitarized Zone , Friday 10 October 2025, 10:30-13:00 (CEST)

Hybrid Culture

Reimagine Cultural Spaces

Hybrid Space Lab initiated research and ideation programs to reimagine cultural spaces in the context of the digital together with international partners such as Royal Academy of Art & Royal Conservatoire Hague, Sonic Acts, V2 Lab for Unstable Media, Waag Future Lab, transmediale, CTM Festival, Vibelab, Clubcommision Berlin, Kulturstiftung des Bundes, Amsterdam Dance Event & SEXYLAND World.

Concerts, Jam-sessions, Performances, Screenings & Narrow- and Broadcasts, Workshops & Lectures, @ Royal Academy of Art & Royal Conservatoire the Hague, Sonic Acts, V2 Lab for Unstable Media, Waag technology & society, transmediale, CTM Festival, Vibelab, Clubcommision Berlin, Kulturstiftung des Bundes, Amsterdam Dance Event & SEXYLAND World, 2020-2025

Publication Hybrid Culture @ Marlowes Architecture Magazine, Germany, 30 May 2025

weCARElab

5-minute Communities

imagines tech innovations and digital and hybrid solutions together with spatial, social and cultural aspects of health care and prevention creating 5-minute communities.

weCARElab @ Global, 2025
Keynote & Panel weCARElab @ FUTUROMUNDO Foresight, Future Urban Economies Forum, Stuttgart, Germany, 3 Juli 2025

Alchimia

Revolution of Italian Design

Alchimia, the exhibition at the Bröhan Museum is the first major retrospective of Studio Alchimia, bringing together the most important Italian designers of the 1970s and 80s, including Alessando Mendini, Ettore Sottsass, Andrea Branzi and others.

Frans Vogelaar was part of the Studio Alchimia from 1981 to 1982, designing together with the Italian architect and designer Alessandro Mendini the chair and two-seater Sabrina for the Italian furniture firm Driade.

Alchimia @ Bröhan Museum, Schloßstraße 1a, Berlin, 17 April – 7 September 2025

Hybrid Urbanism is the Fusion of the Urban Age and the Digital Age.

Hybrid Urbanism investigates the transformations of space in the information and communication age and develops and designs hybrid urban and media networks.

BETWEENstitute

Visions for Berlin cultural networks

BETWEENstitute  develops new hybrid models future visions for Berlin cultural networks involved in research, production and distribution of media culture on invitation by transmediale and CTM Festival, for AI driven ideation we used hAIbrid.

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

hybrid

the body in space

For tanz Yearbook 2022, the international magazine for ballet, dance and performance, Hybrid Space Lab wrote 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

Hybrid Spaces

Hybrid Spaces

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

Hybrid Space is an interdisciplinary field of design, researching the transformations of architectural, urban and regional space in the  “information age”, exploring the dynamic interaction of architecture, urbanism and the space of media and communication networks.

Humboldt Futures

Radical appropriation of the controversial Humboldt Forum

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

coSPECIESlab

Ecological transition

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.

Workshop coSPECIESlab @ WɔɛLab, Lomé, Togo, 27 November 2023

Deep Space

Politics of Memory, Controversial Space and Monuments, Heritage and Digitalization

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

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.

Workshop Deep Space: re-signifying Valle de los Caídos @ Medialab Prado & Valle de los Caídos, Madrid, 25-27 October 2018

“Hybridization enables us to focus on the interconnection of different domains, temporalities, and actors at different levels, overcoming and rejecting hierarchies, and grand narratives.”
Jean-François Lyotard, 1979

inBETWEENstitute

Cultural innovation

The future of culture is hybrid.

Cultural innovation lies in the cross-pollination between different fields, approaches and expertise.

Lectures, Presentations, Ideation, Discussions & Cooking @ Hybrid Space Lab, Berlin, 2021~2024
Presentation & , Discussion Marleen Stikker, founder and director Waag Future Lab for Design and Technology @ Hybrid Space Lab, Berlin, 18.00-20.00, 30 November 2021
Presentation, Ideation & Discussion, Dinner, Humboldt Futures, @ INbetweenSTITUTE, Hybrid Space Lab, Berlin, 8 December 2023 & 11 January 2024
Presentation & Discussion Hybrid Face, Merlijn Schoonenboom, cultural historian and journalist @ Hybrid Space Lab, Berlin, 18.00-21.00, April 2024
Cooking & Sound, The Common Meal, FM Einheit, musician, sound researcher, actor, composer, producer and founding member Einstürzende Neubauten, LI Zhenhua, master chef, curator, poet, filmmaker and artist, Prof. Dr. Siegfried Zielinski, media archaeologist, writer and curator @ Hybrid Space Lab, Berlin, 2024

Embassy Lab

Future Diplomacy

Embassy Lab is innovation program and a prototype for experimenting with future functions of embassies in the current age of EUization, globalization and digitalization.

Embassy Lab at the Kingdom of the  Netherlands Embassy in Berlin and Kingdom of The Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs brings together the official traditional institution of the “Embassy” with the innovative potential of a creative “Lab”.

Embassy Lab is a think tank and innovation hub, for research and discussion, for experimenting with new models, and for presenting and communicating ideas.

Research, Workshops, Lectures & Symposiums Embassy Lab @ Embassy of the Kingdom of The Netherlands in Berlin & Kingdom of The Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Hague, 2014~2021

Smart & the City

Smart City to Smart Citizen

From Smart City to Smart Citizen: mapping the Smart City, empowering the Smart Citizen.

Smart City is the fusion of the Urban and the Digital Age.
Ubiquitous digitalisation together with the increasing complexity of global challenges demand for interdisciplinary co-designing processes, involving society at large.

Smart & the City @ Embassy Kingdom of the Netherlands Berlin, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Kingdom of the Netherlands, The Hague, 2 February 2014

Hybrid Habitat is the Fusion of the Biological & Technological.

NatureTecture

Landscape in the Post-industrial Age

NatureTecture focuses on those fields of work that will become increasingly important internationally for the design of our living environments and formulates relevant questions for the future.

NatureTecture is dedicated to the tasks and instruments of qualifying landscape in the post-industrial age.


Concept, Research & Exhibitions NatureTecture @ Chamber of Architects, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, 1 September 2009

Beneath the pavement,
piercing the beach,
lie fiber-optic cables!

Sous les pavés, la plage!
Beneath the pavement, the beach!

This slogan from the May 1968 uprisings in France symbolized a desire to break free from rigid, profit-driven structures and reclaim urban spaces for freedom, playfulness, and human connection.