Poly Garden City is a participative project integrating green into Athens built environment, fusing building and gardens into new hybrid urban typologies, and reinterpreting modernist urban heritage and a strategy for participative climate adaptation for cities in semi-arid climates.

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Hybrid

Publication
Hybrid
19 August 2022

@ tanz
Germany

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 physical and the digital: the Hybrid.

Uncomfortable Memory

Publication
by Sílvia Marimon Molas
16 July 2022

@ ARA Catalan Newspaper
Barcelona

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

“It (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 Vogelaar.

This could be a tool as long as there is no physical transformation of the Valley, but archaeologist Alfredo González Rubial, who has excavated Cuelgamuros to trace the lives of prisoners who did slave work there, believes the monument cannot be left as it is.

Post
COVID-19
City

Publication
Post COVID-19 City
27 July 2022

@ Magazine #0
Academy of Media Arts
Cologne

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.

Informing instead
of glorifying

Publication
by Jørg Himmeleich
28 November 2020

@ archithese
Switzerland

Hybrid Space Lab analyzed “Valley of the Fallen” near Madrid – the pompous tomb for the fascist dictator Francisco Franco.

They suggest leaving it unchanged but covering it with a new critical layer.

Using augmented reality, they want to make hidden layers visible and write history from the victim’s perspective.

Iannis
Xenakis

Interview
Elizabeth Sikiaridi
by Britta Bürger
23.05-23.30, 29 May 2022

@ Live Programme “Fazit”
Deutschlandfunk Kultur
Germany

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

Deutsch

Deep Space: re-signifying Valle de los Caídos

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.

Workshop”Deep Space: re-signifying Valle de los Caídos”, @ Medialab Prado in Madrid , Lecture, @ TRACES in Milan, January 2019, Lecture, @ transmediale in Berlin, February 2019, Films, Talks, Discussions, Installation, Event @ Goethe Institut Madrid 6 May 2019

NEWS

Club
Futures

Club Futures
Exchange, Ideation, Research, Panels, Parties, Prototyping, Workshops
2022~2023

@ Amsterdam Dance Event & Re:mise
Amsterdam & Berlin

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

Club Futures reflects on and elicits responses from different clubbing (sub-)cultures, exploring clubbing and their business models and their long-term adaptability and sustainability.

Next
Stop
Culture

Workshop
14.00-18.00, 25 January 2023

@ Re:mise
Berlin

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.

As 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 in the flow of urban mobility.

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Animal
Club

Animal Club
Presentation & Workshop
15.30-22.00, 20 October 2022

@ Amsterdam Dance Event
SEXYLAND World
Amsterdam

Animal Club connects creatives, ecologists, biologists, artists, philosophers and other experts with professionals from the club scene to generate new concepts and develop new business models for a sustainable and biodiverse future of clubbing and culture.

festCITY

2023~2025

@ Berlin, New York

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

It entails a process-oriented think-tank to sustainably integrate festivals and festival designing and making into the environment, with a crossover, hybrid approach that combines Berlin’s (bio)diversity leveraging unexpected encounters and combinations from the cultural and tech fields.

ANIMALfest

Lecture
19.00-21.00, 22 March 2023

@ betahaus
Berlin

Panel
19.00-21.00, 11 April 2023

@ Holzmarkt
Berlin

Public Presentation
19.00-21.00, 31 May 2023

@ Flughafen Tempelhof
Berlin

SpeedDating

Hybrid Crossover
14.00-16.00, 6 June 2023

@ Hybrid Space Lab
Berlin

The Berlin Government is establishing a creative and tech festival in Berlin in order to increase the city’s international appeal.

Berlin Worx, the collective of Berlins creative and technology sector, and Berlin Clubcommission are organizing two Town Hall Meetings to develop ideas for the festival.

Hybrid Space Lab is contributing to the first Town Hall Meeting with a lecture on re-imaging cultural space and to the second Town Hall Meeting with a panel with Steve Austen and Paul Spies.

Hybrid
Face

Presentation, Discussion
Merlijn Schoonenboom
18.00-21.00, 19 May 2023

@ INbetweenSTITUTE
Berlin

In the Digital Age, the face has become the most important representation of our identity.

Firstly, to show ourselves to the world we use selfies and Zoom-meetings, which focus almost solely on the face.

Secondly, 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 fast technical developments, but is also the result of a deeper desire stirring contemporary society.

Berlin
Energy
Transition
Dialogue

Participation
Prof. Elizabeth Sikiaridi
29 March 2023

@ Berlin Energy Transition Dialogue 2023
Berlin

The Berlin Energy Transition Dialogue is one of the world’s most important forums on the global energy transition.

In a high-caliber conference program held over the course of two days at the Federal Foreign Office, the Berlin Energy Transition Dialogue facilitates personal exchange between high-ranking government representatives, global business leaders, scientists, leaders of international organizations and NGOs.

Startup
Energy
Transition
Festival

Panel Moderation & Lecture
Building a Sustainable Future: Offsetting Emissions in Smart Cities
Prof. Elizabeth Sikiaridi
9:50-10:20, 28 March 2023

@ Startup Energy Transition Festival 2023
Berlin

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 SET Tech Festival 2023 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.

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Progressive
Governance
Summit
2022

Participation
Summit Joining Forces
13 October 2022

@ Technical University Berlin

Our planet is radically changing. From an inhabitable climate to threatened democracies, progressives must continue to win political majorities capable of swift and bold action.

This year the focus of Progressive Governance Summit 2022 Joining Forces is on how progressive alliances can pull us out of our current crises and into a just and green political era.

circulariCITY

Presentation & Workshop
2 October 2022

@ Bits & Bäume 2022 Conference for Digitization and Sustainability
Technical University Berlin

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 & Bäume fosters the collaboration between environmental- and social justice activists, technical experts and human rights activists.

eCommemoration
Convention
2022

Participation
29-30 September 2022

@ Körber Stiftung
Hamburg

The Körber Stiftung eCommemoration Program brings together international historians, museum makers, digital pioneers, and creatives to shape innovative and digital memory culture.

During the eCommemoration Convention 2022 various panels, international participants with different perspectives, backgrounds and professions will debate how digitalisation is redefining history.

Hybrid
Space

Interview & Lecture
Elizabeth Sikiaridi
1 July 2022

@ Digital Leaders in Architecture
Schüco International KG
Germany

Hybrid Space is the focus of the new edition of Digital Leaders in Architecture,
a platform providing innovative food for thought for architects.

Deutsch

circulariCITY

Workshop
Cities in the Loop:
Re-coding the Circular City
11.00-13.00, 1 July 2022

@ Hybrid Space Lab

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

And yet, as one takes a closer look, the circle expands in multiple ripples and loops, revealing the sheer complexity that envisioning – let alone developing – circular cities entail.

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

Nevertheless, crosscutting and intersecting all the aforementioned dimensions is needed in order to find an approach to the circular city that reflects the complexity of urban ecosystems.

Hybrid
Heritage

Lecture
Elizabeth Sikiaridi
17.00-18.30, 31 March 2021
Lecture
1 July 2022

@ Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University
Paris

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)

#Newsletter

permaCRISIS

Newsletter
June 2022

@ Hybrid Space Lab

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.

In this permacrisis (permanent crisis), humans are left with the bitter reckoning that their limited, biased attention span allows them to only deal with and care about a very limited range of emergencies.

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Conflict
Space

Workshop
14.30-18.00, 12 June 2022
Lecture
16.50-17.20, 14 June 2022

@ ISEA 2022 Symposium Possibilities
Heritage and Futures
Centre de Cultura Contemporània
Barcelona

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

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The Future is not Digital
Hybrid is the Future!

Hybrid Workshop
13.30-18.00, 14 October 2021

@ Kulturstiftung de Bundes
Halle an der Saale, Germany

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 initiated by the German Federal Cultural Foundation, Kulturstiftung des Bundes.

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Hybrid
Staging

Hybrid Workshop
The Future is not Digital.
Hybrid is the Future!
Dive In Program for Digital Interaction
13.30 – 18.00, 14 October 2021

Keynote
Hybrid Space
Dive In Program for Digital Interaction
16.00 – 17.00, 22 September 2021

@ Kulturstiftung des Bundes
Halle an der Saale, Germany

Workshop
Hybrid Platforms
NRW KULTURsekretariat
14.00 – 16.30, 14 November 2020

@ Next Level Festival for Games
Kokskohlenbunker, Zeche Zollverein, Essen, Germany

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.

Hybrid
Space

Lecture 
Hybrid Space
 20.00-21.45 , 5 March 2020

@ Architecture Fund
Lithuanian Council for Culture
 National Gallery of Art  Vilnius
Lithuania

As Hybrid Space is becoming ubiquitous and ever more pervasive, the adoption of crossover as a method and strategy, borrowing tools and concepts from one field to apply them to another, addressing space in its multiple dimensions.

English

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Voiced
Space

International Research Program
2019-2020

@ Het Nieuwe Instituut
Rotterdam

Accustomed to the places we daily encounter, we often overlook or forget about the traces of contested pasts that surround us.

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

Global networks and infrastructures were established for unevenly channeling the movement of people and goods, contributing to further stratify societies and spaces.

#Architecture
#Design
#Urbanism

Deep
Space

Workshop
Deep Space
re-signifying Valle de los Caídos
25-27 October 2018

@ Medialab Prado
Madrid

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

Digital
Diplomacy
Un-Conference

Workshop
The Hague Digital Diplomacy Un-Conference 2018

@ Ministry of Foreign Affairs
The Hague

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.

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City
Making
Lab

City Making Lab
2019~2020

@ Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society
Berlin

City Making 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 Making Lab is a co-operation between Hybrid Space Lab and Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society.

The kick-off event of the City Making 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.

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Humboldt
Vulkan

Design Lab
Humboldt Volcano
2017-2023

@ Humboldt Forum
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.

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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