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

Hybrid Space @ Lithuanian Union of Architects

Our whole sense of reality is shaped by our hybrid existence.Hybridity is a multifaceted notion, as we are experiencing a proliferation of hybridization in all dimensions of our contemporary life.This is discussed in an article on Hybrid Space, published by the Lithuanian Union of Architects.

Publication Hybrid Space @ Regeneration [and its Discontents], Lithuanian Union of Architects, Vilnius, Lithuania, 4 June 2021

NEWS

Hybrid
Face

Presentation, Discussion
Merlijn Schoonenboom
18.00-21.00, 16 February 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.

Club
Futures

Club Futures
Exchange, Ideation, Research, Panels, Parties, Prototyping, Workshops
2022~2024

@ Berlin & Global

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.

Club
Animals

Performance & Workshop
14.00-20.00, 25 January 2023

@ transmediale & CTM Festival
@ Fiesere Miese
Köpenicker Strasse 20, 10997 Berlin

Club Animals focuses on sustainable club cultures, fostering and stewarding interspecies co-existence.

Club Animals creates a space of radical imagination.

Club Animals experiments with innovative Artificial Intelligence to generate future visions enabling a groundbreaking method for creating concepts.

Club Animals prepares for the creation of a Field Lab Club Futures at No-Wo/Man-Land, an abandoned railway line running from Berlin West to East again dividing Berlin.

Animal
Club

Presentation, Workshop, Panel, Party
15.30-24.00, 20 October 2022

@ Amsterdam Dance Event
@ SEXYLAND World

Animal Club investigates the future of clubbing in the context of the pressing urgency of biodiversity loss.

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 future of clubbing and culture.

Animal Club experiments with innovative Artificial Intelligence to generate future visions enabling a groundbreaking method for creating concepts.

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.

eCommemo-ration 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.

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
Online 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

@ Hybrid Space Lab
@ 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.

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

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

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 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

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.