Article (german/english) by chief editor Jørg Himmelreich in Swiss architectural magazine Archithese on the future of Valle de los Caídos and Deep Space
25 November 2020

Visions, Concepts and Narratives for the Networked City
19.00-20.30, 20 February 2020
~~Registration~~ (fully booked)

@ Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society
Berlin

What are the social models and city concepts shaping urban-tech?Visions, Concepts and Narratives for the Networked City discusses the dynamic dialogue between city visions and urban concepts from the past and todays’ Smart City narratives.

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Deep Space @ archithese

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 victims’ perspective.

Deep Space @ Archithese, Switzerland, 25 November 2020

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Deep Space:
re-signifying
Valle de los Caídos

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?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

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.

City Making Lab
@
Alexander von Humboldt
Institute for Internet and Society

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 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.

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.