Hybrid Space is the fusion of Physical Space and Digital Space.
Hybrid Space is the Ambivalent Space that is at the same time analog and digital, virtual and material, biological and technical, local and global, tactile and abstract.
Hybrid Space is the fusion of Physical Space and Digital Space.
Hybrid Space is the Ambivalent Space that is at the same time analog and digital, virtual and material, biological and technical, local and global, tactile and abstract.
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 @ Marlowes Architecture Magazine, Germany, 30 May 2025
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 @ Marlowes Architecture Magazine, Germany, 30 May 2025
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 @ FUTUROMONDO Foresight, Future Urban Economies Forum, Stuttgart, Germany, 3 Juli 2025
Workshop weCARElab @ FUTUROMONDO, Fraunhofer AIO, Stuttgart, Germany 4 Juli 2025
Alchimia, founded by Alessandro and Adriana Guerriero, the exhibition at the Bröhan Museum is the first major retrospective of the Radical Design movement, bringing together the most important Italian designers of the 1970s and 80s, including Alessando Mendini, Ettore Sottsass, Andrea Branzi, Lapo Binazzi and others.
Frans Vogelaar was part of Alchimia in 1981-1982.
Alchimia @ Bröhan Museum, Schloßstraße 1a, Berlin, 17 April – 7 September 2025
Alchimia @ Bröhan Museum, Schloßstraße 1a, Berlin, 17 April – 7 September 2025
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
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
Presentation & Discussion BETWEENstitute @ transmediale, Kuppelhalle silent green, Gerichtstraße 35, 13347 Berlin, 16.00-17.30, 30 January 2025
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
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
Publication Hybrid Spaces @ Regeneration [and its Discontents], Lithuanian Architectural Foundation, Vilnius, Lithuania, 4 June 2021
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
Publication Humboldt Futures @ Atlas der Datenkörper 2, Transcript Verlag, Germany, 27 May 2024
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, Lomé, Togo, 27 November 2023
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
Workshop Deep Space: re-signifying Valle de los Caídos @ Medialab Prado & Valle de los Caídos, Madrid, 25-27 October 2018
The future of culture is hybrid.
Cultural innovation lies in the cross-pollination between different fields, approaches and expertise.
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
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 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.
Poly
Garden
City
@
SHEDIA
Magazine
Interview, Spyros Zonakis @ SHEDIA magazine 111, Athens, May 2023
Publication, Julia Weiss, Journalist @ Tagesspiegel, Berlin, 31 January 2023
Post
COVID-19
City @
KHM
#0 Magazine
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 für Architektur und Stadt, Stuttgart, Germany, 20 May 2020
Uncomfortable
Memory
@
ARA
Newspaper
Publication Uncomfortable Memory, Sílvia Marimon Molas @ ARA Catalan Newspaper, Barcelona, 16 July 2022
Iannis
Xenakis
@
Deutschlandfunk
Kultur
Interview, Britta Bürger Pioneer of Hybrid Spaces: The Sound Architect Iannis Xenakis @ Fazit, Deutschlandfunk Kultur, Germany, 29 May 2022
Hybrid
Space
@
Lithuanian
Architectural
Foundation
Publication Hybrid Spaces @ Regeneration [and its Discontents], Lithuanian Architectural Foundation, Vilnius, Lithuania, 4 June 2021
Informing
instead
of
glorifying
@
archithese
Publication Informing instead of glorifying, Jørg Himmelreich, @ archithese, Switserland, 28 November 2020
Keynote & Panel weCARElab @ FUTUROMONDO Foresight, Future Urban Economies Forum, Stuttgart, Germany, 3 July 2025
BETWEENstitute
@
transmediale
&
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
Book Presentation, Discussion & Dinner, Merlijn Schoonenboom, Cultural Historian and Journalist @ INbetweenSTITUTE, Hybrid Space Lab, Berlin, Autumn 2024
Dinner, Workshop & Public Presentation & Discussion Humboldt Futures @ Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, 18.00-21.00, 11-12 January 2024
Lecture CRISIS design @ Designing beyond Crisis, Berlin Science Week 2023, 18.30-20.00, 2 November 2023
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
Workshop Co-Hosted by Clubcommission Berlin @ transmediale & CTM Festival, Re:mise, Köpenicker Strasse 18, 10997 Berlin, 25 January 2023
Concept Hybrid & Crossover @ White Paper Creative Festival Berlin, 12 June 2023
Public Presentation & Discussion ANIMALfest @ THFxIMPULSE Event, Flughafen Tempelhof, Berlin, 31 May 2023
Startup
Energy
Transition
Festival
Concept Panel Moderation & Lecture Building a Sustainable Future: Offsetting Emissions in Smart Cities @ Startup Energy Transition Festival 2023, Berlin, 28 March 2023
Presentation & Workshop circulariCITY @ Bits & Bäume 2022 Conference for Digitization and Sustainability, Technical University Berlin, 1 October 2022
Presentation & Workshop Cities in the Loop: Re-coding the Circular City @ Hybrid Space Lab, Berlin, 1 July 2022
Interview & Lecture Hybrid Space @ Digital Leaders in Architecture, Schüco International KG, Berlin, 1 July 202
Lecture Hybrid Heritage @ UNA University Alliance Europe, Panthéon-Sorbonne University, Galerie Colbert, 2 rue Vivienne, Paris, 31 March 2021, Online, 1 July 2022
Newsletter Permacrisis @ Hybrid Space Lab, 10 June 2022
Lecture & Workshop Conflict Space @ ISEA 2022 Symposium “Possibilities”, Heritage and Futures @ Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona, 12 June 2022 & 14 June 2022
The Future is not Digital
Hybrid is the Future!
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
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
Lectures, Workshops & Conference International Research Program @ Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, 2019~2022
Consultancy Cool Down Cities @ Municipality of Athens, Deputy Mayor of Athens for Climate Governance and Social Economy Nikos Chrysogelos, Athens 25 August 2024
Lecture Hybrid Space @ Architecture Fund, Lithuanian Council for Culture, National Gallery of Art, Vilnius, Lithuania, 5 March 20
Research, Lectures & Workshops City Making Lab @ Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, Berlin, 2019~2020
Digital
Diplomacy
Un-Conference
Lectures & Workshops Digital Diplomacy @ The Hague Digital Diplomacy Camp 2018 Un-Conference, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, The Hague, 2 February 2018
Workshops, Lectures, Symposia Embassy Lab @ Kingdom of The Netherlands Embassy, Berlin & Kingdom of The Netherlands Ministery of Foreign Affairs, The Hague, 2015~2021
Workshop Deep Space: re-signifying Valle de los Caídos @ Medialab Prado & Valle de los Caídos, Madrid, 25-27 October 2018
Urban & Architectural Concept @ 798 Art District, Beijing, 2014
Research & Concept NatureTecture @ Chamber of Architects, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, 1 September 2009
Beaver
builds
House
“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