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circulariCITY
Berlin
2022~2024

INbetweenSTITUTE
Berlin
2021~2023

Conflict Space
Barcelona
2022

Hybrid Staging
Essen,Berlin
Online
2020~2022

Post COVID-19 City
Stuttgart
25.5.2020
Cologne
01.7.2022

Hybrid is the Future!
Berlin, Online
14.10.2021

Voiced Space
Rotterdam, Amsterdam
2019~2021

Climate City
Berlin
20.11.2019

GRĂśNtopia
Berlin

22.6.2018

Future Diplomacy
Berlin
7.10.2016

Next Stop Culture
Berlin
2023

Animal Club
Amsterdam
2022

Club Futures
Berlin, Amsterdam
2022~2024

Deep Space
Madrid, Barcelona
2018~2022

ReWild Autobahn
Berlin
2021

Reboot Culture
COVID-19
2020~2021

DMZpace
Korea

2019~2020

Fabric
Athens
8.4~17.7.2017

Humboldt Volcano
Berlin
2016~2019

Humboldt Jungle
Berlin
2015~2017

Poly Garden City
Athens
2015~2016

INbetweenSTITUTE
Beijing
2014

Smart & the City
Hannover

2014

Daring
Design

 

Publication
A jungle for the Berlin Palace

Julia Weiss
31 Januari 2023

@ Tagesspiegel
Germany

 

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

Poly
Garden
City

 

Interview
Spyros Zonakis, journalist
15 May 2023

@ SHEDIA Magazine
Athens

 

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.

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.

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 SĂ­lvia 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 BĂĽrger
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 CaĂ­dos

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 CaĂ­dos”, @ 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

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.

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.

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
SchĂĽco 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)

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.

Pyrocene Age @ Humboldt Forum

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 ContemporĂ nia
Barcelona

 

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

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.

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

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.

Deep
Space

 

Workshop
Deep Space
re-signifying Valle de los CaĂ­dos
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?

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.

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.

Embassy Lab, 2 February 2018, The Hague Digital Diplomacy Un-Conference 2018, @ Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Hague, The Netherlands

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.

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.

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