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Hybrid Space @ Doors of Perception Conference

Doors of Perception is an annual conference, and a programme of workshops, seminars and pilot projects, organised by the Netherlands Design Institute in Amsterdam. Doors of Perception seeks answers to the question: what are multimedia and global networks actually for? Doors of Perception generates scenarios about future applications of new technology and enhance the development of multimedia and online environments by bringing together previously unconnected knowledge and skills.

Lecture Hybrid Space @ Doors of Perception Conference, Dutch Design Institute Premsela, RAI Convention Centre, Amsterdam, 4-6 November 1994

Projects

Smart Landscape

Developments such as Internet of Things, Big Data, Machine Intelligence have ambition and the potential to algorithmically manage life, including urban nature.

Article NatureTecture © Hybrid Space Lab, Berlin, 20 March 2018

hAIbrid

Creativity represents the competitive advantage: while machines excel at making predictions based on what exists, humans possess the creative power to imagine.

hAIbrid @ Berlin, 28 May 2026

weCARElab

weCARElab imagines tech, digital and hybrid solutions with spatial, social and cultural aspects of health care and prevention to build 5‑minute communities.

weCARElab @ Global, 2025~2030
Keynote & Panel weCARElab @ FUTUROMUNDO Foresight, Future Urban Economies Forum, Stuttgart, Germany, 3 Juli 2025
Workshop weCARElab @ FUTUROMUNDO, Fraunhofer AIO, Stuttgart, Germany 4 Juli 2025

BETWEENstitute

BETWEENstitute develops hybrid models and future visions for Berlin’s cultural media networks; for transmediale and CTM, using hAIbrid for AI‑driven ideation.

Workshop SPIEL lab @ Hybrid Space Lab, Berlin, 10.00-13.00, 28 January 2025
Roundtable Discussion BETWEENstitute @ transmediale, Kuppelhalle silent green, Berlin, 16.00-17.30, 30 January 2025
Workshops BETWEENstitute @ Hybrid Space Lab, Berlin, 15 March-15 July 2025

KOSMOS

KOSMOS is a prototype for new venues enabling global cultural exchange and a testing ground for future museums and cultural institutions.

Kosmos @ Hybrid Space Lab, 2024-2027

Humboldt Futures

Humboldt Futures offers a global co‑creative gaming platform for exchange and collective production to question dystopias and imagine positive cultural futures.

Dinner Humboldt Futures @ Hybrid Space Lab, Berlin 11 January 2024
Workshop Ideation, Presentation & Discussion Humboldt Futures @ Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, 12 January 2024

coSPECIESlab

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

festCITY

festCITY embeds festival-making into the city via a process-oriented think-tank, merging Berlin’s (bio)diversity with crossovers from culture and tech.

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

Next Stop Culture

Next Stop Culture explores unused mobility spaces in Berlin, developing new cultural space concepts and typologies for a culture-powered sustainable urban development.

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

Animal Club

Animal Club connects ecology, art, philosophy, and club culture to generate new concepts and business models for a sustainable and biodiverse future of clubbing.

Presentation, Workshop, Panel & Party Animal Club, Co-Hosted by VibeLab @ Amsterdam Dance Event, SEXYLAND World, 1 Noordwal, 1021 PX Amsterdam, 20 October 2022

Convers(at)ions

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

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

Co-Creating Hybrid Culture

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

Embassy Lab Grow Your Green City

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

Club Futures

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

Exchange, Ideation, Research, Panels, Parties, Prototyping, Workshops @ Club Futures, Hybrid Space Lab, Berlin & Amsterdam, 2022~2023

Green Artificial Intelligent Architecture

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

reBOOT Culture

reBOOT Culture explores collective cultural experiences rooted in urban space, merging public physical with digital space to create shared cultural engagement.

Concerts, Jam-sessions, Performances, Screenings & Narrow- and Broadcasts @ Instrument Inventors, Royal Academy of Art & Royal Conservatoire the Hague, Sonic Acts, V2 Lab for Unstable Media, Waag technology & society, The Netherlands, 2020-2021

DMZpace

The DMZ between North Korea and South Korea is a 250 km long, 4 km wide military buffer zone stretching from the East Sea to the Yellow Sea.

Workshop DMZpace @ DMZ, CCL, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea, 30 May-3 June 2010Exhibition @ Yeonnamjang Gallery Seoul, 2 May-17 May 2020
Exhibition @ Korean Cultural Center Paris, 10 September-6 November 2020

Deep Space

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

Workshop Deep Space: re-signifying Valle de los Caídos @ Medialab Prado & Valle de los Caídos, Madrid, 25-27 October 2018
Opening, Exhibition, Lecture & Discussion Lost Memory – Recovered Memory @ Goethe Institut & Fundación Pablo Iglesias, Madrid, 5 June 2019
Workshop & Lecture @ ISEA 2022 Symposium “Possibilities” Heritage and Futures, Centre de Cultura Contemporània, Barcelona, 12 June & 14 2022

Humboldt Volcano

As an innovative flexible structure, Humboldt Volcano contrasts with the historical appearance of the power-radiating reconstruction of the Humboldt Forum.

GRÜNMANIA

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

Fabric

The documentary Fabric presents the history of the building complex that houses today the Athens School of Fine Arts, one the main venues of documenta 14 in Athens. It also narrates a family history that spans more than over 100 years and starting in Cappadocia in Central Anatolia, continues via Beirut and Istanbul (Constantinople) arriving in Athens in the 1920ies.

Documentary Video Fabric @ documenta 14, Athens School of Fine Arts, Peiraios Street 256, Athens, 8 April-17 July 2017

B.A.N.G. Binary Atom Neuron Gene

B.A.N.G. is the fusion of Binary, Atoms, Neurons, and Genes.
B.A.N.G. deals with the complexity of our globalized and ‘glocalized’ world.

Lectures & Workshop B.A.N.G. @ Conference Design by Culture, Berlin, 24 June 2016

Poly Garden City

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

Humboldt Jungle

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

Concept & Design Humboldt Jungle @ Humboldt Forum, Berlin, 2015-2017

INbetweenSTITUTE @ 798

INbetweenSTITUTE is a strategy for strengthening the Beijing art district 798 as a resilient creative cluster and as China’s Creative Lab.

BioBubble

BioBibble is a sustainable urbanism project for the city of Beijing.

Smart & the City

From Smart City to Smart Citizen: mapping the Smart City, empowering the Smart Citizen.
Smart & the City is the fusion of the Urban and the Digital Age.

Urban Research Smart & the City @ Embassy Kingdom of the Netherlands Berlin, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Kingdom of the Netherlands, The Hague, 2 February 2014

NatureTecture

NatureTecture explores emerging fields shaping future living environments and formulates key questions that will guide their international development.

Concept NatureTecture @ Chamber of Architects, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, 1 September 2009
Exhibition NatureTecture @ Chamber of Architects, Düsseldorf, Germany 11 Februar -17 March 2010
Exhibition NatureTecture @ Representation of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia to the European Union, Berlin, Germany, 9 June-12 July 2010
Exhibition NatureTecture @ Chamber of Architects of Jeollabuk-Do Province (KIRA Jeonbuk), Republic of Korea, 1 September- 4 September 2010
Exhibition NatureTecture @ Building Culture Fair Daejeon 2010, Republic of Korea, 14-19 October 2010
Exhibition NatureTecture @ Architecture and Urbanism Fair Gwangju, Republic of Korea, 3-7 November 2010
Exhibition NatureTecture @ Turkish Chamber of Architects of the Metropolis of Istanbul, Turkey, 26 November-10 December 2010
Exhibition NatureTecture @ 20th Anniversary of German Reunification, Busan, Republic of Korea, 8-14 December 2010

Neighbours Network City

Neighbours Network City: a project proposal by Hybrid Space Lab for the city of Essen and the Ruhr region in Germany as the Cultural Capital of Europe.

Concept Wir essen für das Ruhrgebiet @ European Cultural Capital Ruhr, Germany, 1 March 2003

Venda

The exhibition Venda, South Africa, shows objects in-between the holy, the everyday, the political, the touristically colonialized and contemporary art.

Exhibition Concept & Design @ Venda, Museum voor Volkenkunde, Rotterdam, 1 May 1994

Digital Simulation

Technological concept and realization by Frans Vogelaar of the digital simulation “HOUSE” for the artist Jan van der Pavert.

Concept & Realisation @ Montevideo, Amsterdam 1991-1992
Exhibition @ Centraal Museum, Utrecht, 1995
Exhibition Realspace in Quicktimes @ XIX Triennale di Milano, Milan, 1996
Publication Realspace in Quicktimes, Ole Bouman @ Nai Publishers, Rotterdam, 1996
Exhibition Realspace in Quicktimes @ Netherlands Architectural Institute Nai, Rotterdam, 1997
Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for Art @ Amsterdam, 1998

Chair Sabrina @ Alessandro Mendini & Studio Alchimia

Frans Vogelaar led prototype design and industrial production of Mendini’s Sabrina chair at Studio Alchymia, working with furniture manufacturer Driade.

Design & Prototype Development, Supervision Industrial Production Chair Sabrina by Alessandro Mendini @ Driade, Alzaia Trieste 49, Corsico, Italia, 1982

Frans Vogelaar @ Studio Alchimia

From 1981 till 1982 Frans Vogelaar was a member of the architectural and design office “Studio Alchimia” in Milan, Italy.

Design & Architecture @ Studio Alchimia, Milan, Italy, 1981-1982