Avant Garden @ Festival of Intermedia Hong Kong

Urban climate adaptation, Sponge City, green corridors and building greening helps Athens become resilient, improves life quality and boosts biodiversity.

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

Ecological transition demands a paradigm shift: integrating diverse knowledges, including those shaping the Global South yet dismissed in the Global North.

Labs & Fests @ Glocal, 2023~2026

Circular cities dominate sustainable urban futures—yet a closer look reveals ripples and loops of complexity that envisioning, let alone developing, such cities truly entails.

Presentation & Workshop Cities in the Loop: Re-coding the Circular City @ Hybrid Space Lab, Berlin, 1 July 2022
Presentation & Workshop zirkularKIEZ @ Bits & Bäume 2022 Conference for Digitization and Sustainability, Technical University Berlin, 2 October 2022

Convers(at)ions creatively engages with border phenomenology and performativity, transforming military demarcations through a more‑than‑human view and activating nature’s potential.

Research, Lectures & Discussions @ Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) &  European Green Belt (EGB), Berlin & Seoul, October 2019~2023

ReWild Autobahn proposes a natural‑artificial landscape on a dismantled Berlin highway, creating a green corridor that supports humans and non‑humans alike.

Exhibition ReWild Autobahn @ BDA Gallery, Association of German Architects Berlin, Berlin, 6 October – 26 November 2021
Publication Berlin Atlas @ BauNetz, Berlin, 19 November 2021

We developed Co‑Creating Hybrid Culture for the German Federal Cultural Foundation, augmenting cultural practices through digital spaces and co‑creative events.

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
Research & Concept @ German Federal Cultural Foundation, Halle an der Saale, Germany, 2021

Grow Your Green City promotes the idea of a climate‑conscious Smart City, exploring how digital and media technologies support urban climate adaptation.

Workshop Grow Your Green City @ Floriade Expo 2022, Almere, The Netherlands, 25 February 2021

In the Anthropocene, the divide between nature and artifact fades, offering a chance for architecture—once rooted in nature—to merge as this polarity dissolves.

Architecture G AI A @ de Waag Technology & Society, Amsterdam, 2019-2020

Human settlements have always been dependent upon access to clean water and its relative scarcity – freshwater makes up only 2.5% of water available on earth.

Embassy Lab Water Conscious Fashion, @ Neonyt, Kraftwerk Berlin, 16 January 2019

GRÜNMANIA decorates the pavilion front, shifting GERMANIA’s letters to invert meaning and recast the pavilion as a shared space for tackling global challenges.

Concept German Pavilion @ Venice Architecture Biennial 2018, Italy, 1 May 2017

Recent developments such as Internet of Things, Big Data and Machine Intelligence will algorithmically organize life, including urban nature.

Lecture NatureTecture @ V2 Institute for Unstable Media, Rotterdam, 9 April 2017

Our current geological age is described as the Anthropocene, an epoch in which human activity dominates climate and environmental change.

Exhibition NatureTecture @ Beijing Media Art Biennale, China Millennium Monument, Beijing, 24 September – 30 October 2016
Lecture & Workshop NatureTecture @ Beijing Design Week 2016,  Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, 30 September 2016

A vertical jungle in a greenhouse pavilion clings to the Berlin Humboldt Forum. A trail leads from the underground to the roof of the Humboldt Forum, opening up stacked gardens and pop-up restaurants dedicated respectively to world flora and world cuisines.

Circular Economy spans technical and biological cycles, to keep materials and products at their highest utility and value throughout the up‑cycling process.

Research Embassy Lab Circular Economy @ Kingdom of The Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Hague, 18 March 2016

Poly Garden City drives climate adaptation in Athens by merging buildings and gardens into hybrid urban forms and reinterpreting modernist heritage.

Research & Urban Design @ City of Athens, 5 April 2015

Hybrid Space Lab designed Humboldt Jungle a hanging garden with lianas overgrowing the Humboldt Forum and a tropical forest for its roof.

Research & Design Humboldt Jungle @ Humboldt Forum, Berlin, 2016-2017

Rethinking design to meet future needs in an increasingly service‑ and knowledge‑based society and economy.

Research & Concept @ Dutch Design Foundation, Premsela Stichting, Amsterdam, 15 June 2015

A workshop on revitalizing Greece’s modern “polykatoikies” was organized by Athens Municipality and curated by Hybrid Space Lab within Co‑Creating Athens.

Lectures & Workshop Rebooting Athens @ Co-Creating the City, City of Athens, 14 December 2014

Co-Creating Athens is a field trip for international city-makers to visit and exchange with Athens urban initiatives.

Lectures & Workshop Incubator City @ City of Athens, 13 December 2014
Lectures & Workshop Workshop Co-Creating the City @ City of Athens & Pakhuis de Zwijger, Athens, 10-13 December 2014

Architecture’s dimensional loss is felt in daily office survival, in training new generations, and in a discourse marked by growing perplexity and crisis.

Publication Landscape BOTOX @ Stadt+Grün, Germany, September 2006