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Humboldt
Futures
@
Atlas
der
Datenkörper

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

KOSMOS
@
TAZ

Interview by Felix Hofmann, journalist at the Berlin TAZ newspaper in the TAZ Schlossaneignung Blog.

hybrid
@
tanz
Yearbook

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

Post
COVID-19
City @
KHM
#0 Magazine

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.

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

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

“An 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 Frans Vogelaar.

Publication Uncomfortable Memory, Sílvia Marimon Molas @ ARA Catalan Newspaper, Barcelona, 16 July 2022

Iannis
Xenakis
@
Deutschlandfunk
Kultur

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

Interview, Britta Bürger Pioneer of Hybrid Spaces: The Sound Architect Iannis Xenakis @ Fazit, Deutschlandfunk Kultur, Germany, 29 May 2022

Hybrid
Space
@
Lithuanian
Architectural
Foundation

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

Informing
instead
of
glorifying
@
archithese

Hybrid Space Lab analyzed “Valley of the Fallen” near Madrid, the pompous tomb for the fascist dictator Francisco Franco, and suggests leaving it unchanged but covering it with a new critical layer by using Augmented Reality to make hidden layers visible and write history from the victim’s perspective.
Publication Informing instead of glorifying, Jørg Himmelreich, @ archithese, Switserland, 28 November 2020

KOSMOS

KOSMOS is an experimental global digital and hybrid space and infrastructure for the future culture.

KOSMOS opens to all people and communities worldwide who have Internet access to participate in this co-creative hybrid gaming platform to interact with challenges and collectively envision new futures with the aim for its ever- expanding speculative worlds to provoke, inspire, and inform our thoughts.
KOSMOS @ Hybrid Space Lab, 2024

Humboldt
Futures

Humboldt Futures develops a globally accessible co-creative gaming platform for exchange and participative collective production in order to negotiate dystopian and to envision positive cultural futures.

Humboldt Futures is an experimentation space for ideating the future of museums, a hybrid environment with immersive interfaces to the physical space.

In collaboration with gamelab.berlin at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

Dinner, Workshop & Public Presentation & Discussion Humboldt Futures @ Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, 18.00-21.00, 11-12 January 2024

co
SPECIES
lab

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

CRISIS
design

Hybrid Space Lab contributes with the lecture CRISIS design to Designing beyond Crisis at Berlin Science Week 2023.

CRISIS design focusses on creativity as a catalyst in difficult political processes and new visions for socio-ecological transformation.
Lecture CRISIS design @ Designing beyond Crisis, Berlin Science Week 2023, 18.30-20.00, 2 November 2023

Club
Futures

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

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

Next
Stop
Culture

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.

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 …
Workshop Co-Hosted by Clubcommission Berlin @ transmediale & CTM Festival, Re:mise, Köpenicker Strasse 18, 10997 Berlin, 25 January 2023

Hybrid
Crossover

Hybrid Space Lab’s innovative concepts have been incorporated as recommendations to Berlin Senat in the White Paper of the Creative & Tech Festival Berlin.
Concept Hybrid & Crossover @ White Paper Creative Festival Berlin, 12 June 2023

ANIMAL
fest

ANIMALfest investigates and celebrates the future of urban culture and creativity at the crossroads of technological innovation and the pressing urgency of biodiversity loss.

ANIMALfest integrates club culture, music, sound and tech as well as many other creativity fields, such as gaming, theatre, dance, performance, children’s programmes and science.
Public Presentation & Discussion ANIMALfest @ THFxIMPULSE Event, Flughafen Tempelhof, Berlin, 31 May 2023

fest
CITY

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

This entails a process-oriented think-tank with a crossover and hybrid approach to sustainably integrate festival-designing and -making into the urban landscape.

Lecture festCITY, Town Hall Meeting #1 @ betahaus, Berlin, 22 March 2023

Startup
Energy
Transition
Festival

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 conference 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.

Concept Panel Moderation & Lecture Building a Sustainable Future: Offsetting Emissions in Smart Cities @ Startup Energy Transition Festival 2023, Berlin, 28 March 2023

circulariCITY

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.

Presentation & Workshop circulariCITY @ Bits & Bäume 2022 Conference for Digitization and Sustainability, Technical University Berlin, 1 October 2022

circulariCITY

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

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

Nevertheless, crosscutting and intersecting its multiple dimensions is needed in order to find an approach to the circular city that reflects the complexity of urban ecosystems.
Presentation & Workshop Cities in the Loop: Re-coding the Circular City @ Hybrid Space Lab, Berlin, 1 July 2022

Hybrid
Space

Hybrid Space is the focus of the new edition of Digital Leaders in Architecture, a platform providing innovative food for thought for architects.
Interview & Lecture Hybrid Space @ Digital Leaders in Architecture, Schüco International KG, Berlin, 1 July 202

Hybrid
Heritage

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)

Lecture Hybrid Heritage @ UNA University Alliance Europe, Panthéon-Sorbonne University, Galerie Colbert, 2 rue Vivienne, Paris, 31 March 2021, Online, 1 July 2022

perma
CRISIS

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.
Newsletter Permacrisis @ Hybrid Space Lab, 10 June 2022

The Future is not Digital
Hybrid is the Future!

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 of the German Federal Cultural Foundation (Bundeskulturstiftung).
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

Hybrid
Staging

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.

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

Voiced
Space

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

How to read contemporary cities in light of their historical relations to former colonies and how to contribute to the formation of an inclusive collective cultural heritage?
Lectures, Workshops & Conference International Research Program @ Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, 2019~2022

CoolCities

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

Consultancy to the Deputy Mayor of Athens for Climate Governance and Social Economy, Nikos Chrysogelos, on issues of urban climate adaptation, such as the ventilation of the city, Sponge City, the planning of green corridors in the city, and the greening of (private) buildings in Athens.

Consultancy Cool Down Cities @ Municipality of Athens, Deputy Mayor of Athens for Climate Governance and Social Economy Nikos Chrysogelos, Athens 25 August 2024

Hybrid
Space

City
Making
Lab

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.
Research, Lectures & Workshops City Making Lab @ Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, Berlin, 2019~2020

Digital
Diplomacy
Un-Conference

Space today is transformed by technologies such as Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR) or Mixed Reality (MR), becoming increasingly hybrid (combined physical and media).
With the Internet of Things (IoT) Hybrid Space is becoming ubiquitous and Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Big Data have the ambition and potential to algorithmically manage these Hybrid Spaces.

What challenges and opportunities do these developments bring for diplomats, businesses, and NGOs?
Lectures & Workshops Digital Diplomacy @ The Hague Digital Diplomacy Camp 2018 Un-Conference, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, The Hague, 2 February 2018

Hybrid Habitat is the Fusion of the Biological & Technical.

Nature
Tecture