Studio Alchimia was a avant-garde group founded by Alessandro and Adriana Guerriero in Milan in 1976, bringing together the most important Italian designers and architects of the 1970s and 80s, including Alessando Mendini, Ettore Sottsass and Andrea Branzi.
Frans Vogelaar was part of Studio Alchimia in 1981-1982.
Newsletter Studio Alchimia @ Hybrid Space Lab, 10 September 2025
On occasion of Studio Alchimia’s retrospective exhibition, Hybrid Space Lab conducted an interview with Alchimia’s founder Alessandro Guerriero at Fondazione Prada.
Frans Vogelaar was part of the transdisciplinary Studio Alchimia from 1981 to 1982, designing together with the Italian architect and designer Alessandro Mendini the chair and two-seater Sabrina for the Italian furniture firm Driade.
Newsletter Studio Alchimia @ Hybrid Space Lab, 25 August 2025
permaCRISIS
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, the Future is Hybrid!
Newsletter September 2021 @ Hybrid Space Lab, Berlin, 15 September 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic forces us to develop visions for future hybrid (combined physical and digital) public cultural spaces.
Newsletter May 2020 @ Hybrid Space Lab, Berlin, 15 May 2020
Amidst increasing digitalization of cities, alternative social and urban approaches and inputs at play open up room for possibility for shaping urban-tech.
Newsletter February 2020 @ Hybrid Space Lab, Berlin, 15 February 2020
Ubiquitous digitalization pervades urban environments at an accelerating pace. So is climate change, with increasingly frequent threatening episodes of extreme weather conditions worldwide, urging us to rethink our cities, and rapidly.
Newsletter November 2019 @ Hybrid Space Lab, Berlin, 15 November 2019
Even without the remains of the dictator, the symbolic value of Valle de los Caídos retains its controversial force. What transformations are needed at Valle de los Caídos (“Valley of the Fallen”) so as not to create a cenotaph – an empty burial monument?
What would Alexander von Humboldt’s 250th birthday wish have been?
This last summer brought again burning questions to the fore: Are extreme hot temperatures established as the new norm? Is the burning of the earth’s lungs and biodiversity ark becoming everyday news?
Newsletter September 2019 @ Hybrid Space Lab, Berlin, 15 September 2019
Ubiquitous digitization is increasingly transforming urban life in all its aspects and Smart City technologies promise unlimited efficiency to urban mobility solutions.
It is however worth reflecting on why digitally supported and automated negotiation concerning, amongst others, mobility does not necessarily equal objective and fair decision-making.
Newsletter July 2019 @ Hybrid Space Lab, Berlin, 15 July 2019
Future Narratives and Immersive Experiences symposium at the Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF on May 22 2019 brought together interdisciplinary co-creators in the audiovisual sector, companies dealing with media, VR / AR / MR, games, 3D sound, the staging of productions, communication, heritage and cultural institutions or other fields of activity with the urge of delivering high-quality storytelling in the digital era.
Newsletter June 2019 @ Hybrid Space Lab, Berlin, 15 June 2019
Digitalization transforms our cities, with far-reaching efforts towards technology-powered increased efficiency, sustainability and at times participation.
This raises new questions on privacy, data governance and (digital) design, historically unaddressed by city planning, architecture, civil society and governance.With cities worldwide striving to earn a “Smart City” reputation, it is however disputed who exactly benefits from these concepts.
Newsletter April 2019 @ Hybrid Space Lab, Berlin, 15 April 2019
As technology, the digital and the physical intersect, affecting our lives and societies in ways previously unthought-of, our thinking and approach to reality must be future-proof, too.
Here is an upshot of an increasingly digitally networked and co-created prospect, ranging from fashion to heritage, to diplomacy.
Newsletter February 2019 @ Hybrid Space Lab, Berlin, 15 February 2019
Valle de los Caídos (Valley of the Fallen), the Francoist monument built between 1940 and 1959 close to Madrid, will soon be emptied of Franco’s remains.
As it risks becoming a cenotaph – an empty burial monument – and it is at the center of heated public discourses surrounding its future, Valle de los Caídos is paradigmatic of the difficult processes of re-signifying controversial monuments.
Newsletter December 2018 @ Hybrid space Lab, Berlin, 15 December 2018
With the words “Die heiße Asche des Diktators”, the Hot Ashes of the Dictator, in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) of November 1st 2018, journalist Paul Ingendaay captures the toxicity of the highly divisive Francoist Memorial at Valle de los Caídos, as well as the urgency of Hybrid Space Lab’s workshop “Deep Space: Re-signifying Valle de los Caídos”.
Newsletter November 2018 @ Hybrid Space Lab, Berlin, 15 November 2018
The past summer brought several burning questions to the fore. We hope you had a cool place to ponder over them. Are extreme hot temperatures worldwide the new norm? How fast does the ice melt at 32°? This was the alarming high temperature measured this summer above the Arctic Circle!
Newsletter October 2018 @ Hybrid Space Lab, Berlin, 15 October 2018
The etymology of recordar, Spanish for “to remember”, is “to go back to one’s heart”, as memory was once thought to reside there and, even today, processes of memory making are immersed within affective landscapes.
Valle de los Caídos (Valley of the Fallen), the Francoist monument built between 1940 and 1959 close to Madrid, will soon be emptied of Franco’s remains.
As it risks becoming a cenotaph – an empty burial monument – and it is at the center of heated public discourses surrounding its future, Valle de los Caídos is paradigmatic of the difficult processes of re-signifying controversial monuments.
Newsletter September 2018 @ Hybrid Space Lab, Berlin 15 September 2018
On August 25th 2018, the Spanish government approved a decree to exhume Franco’s remains from Valle de los Caídos.
What transformations are needed to re-signify the controversial monument of Valle de los Caídos?
Newsletter August 2018 @ Hybrid Space Lab, Berlin, 15 August 2018
Hybrid Space Lab is curating Embassy Lab GRÜNtopia which takes place in Berlin on 22 June 2018 and focuses on innovative solutions for integrating green in dense urban situations. Embassy Lab GRÜNtopia is part of the MakeCity Festival 2018.
Newsletter @ Hybrid Space Lab, 1 May 2018
Hybrid Space Lab co-organized together with the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs The Hague Digital Diplomacy Camp 2018 Un-Conference on February 2nd 2018.
Hybrid Space Lab organized Hybrid Diplomacy Lab “A Reset Button for the Debate over Migration” on January 18th 2018 at the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Hague.
The Swiss architectural magazine “archithese” published Humboldt Jungle on January 16th 2018.
Newsletter @ Hybrid Space Lab, Berlin, 15 April 2018
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 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 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
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
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 offers a global co‑creative gaming platform for exchange and collective production to question dystopias and imagine positive cultural futures.
Humboldt Futures is a collaboration between gamelab.berlin and Hybrid Space Lab.
Dinner Humboldt Futures @ Hybrid Space Lab, Berlin 11 January 2024
Workshop Ideation, Presentation & Discussion Humboldt Futures @ Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, 12 January 2024
Hybrid Space Lab’s innovative concepts were integrated as ecommendations in the Creative Tech Festival Berlin’s White Paper, shaping future cultural strategies.
Concept Hybrid & Crossover @ White Paper Creative Festival Berlin, 12 June 2023
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 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 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 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
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
For tanz Yearbook 2022, we wrote the lead article “hybrid,” exploring the body in space amid the fusion of physical and digital realms.
Publication @ tanz Yearbook 2022, Germany, 15 August 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
The future of culture is hybrid. Cultural innovation lies in the cross-pollination between different fields, approaches and expertise.
Lectures, Presentations, Discussions & Cooking @ Hybrid Space Lab, Berlin, 2021~2023
Presentation & , Discussion Marleen Stikker, founder and director Waag Future Lab for Design and Technology @ Hybrid Space Lab, Berlin, 18.00-20.00, 30 November 2021
Presentation & Discussion Hybrid Face, Merlijn Schoonenboom, cultural historian and journalist @ Hybrid Space Lab, Berlin, 18.00-21.00, 19 May 2023
Cooking & Sound, The Common Meal, FM Einheit, musician, sound researcher, actor, composer, producer and founding member Einstürzende Neubauten, LI Zhenhua, master chef, curator, poet, filmmaker and artist, Prof. Dr. Siegfried Zielinski, media archaeologist, writer and curator @ Hybrid Space Lab, Berlin, February 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
For the German Federal Cultural Fund Hybrid Space Lab developed a workshop Future Cultural Space on the hybrid future of culture.
Hybrid Workshop “The Future is not Digital. Hybrid is the Future!” @ Kulturstiftung des Bundes, HoloLab – dive in Program for Digital Interaction, Halle an der Saale, Germany 14 October 2021
Hybrid Spaces explores future social and cultural spaces by linking physical environments with digital networks, highlighting their hybrid qualities.
Publication Hybrid Space @ @ Regeneration [and its Discontents], Lithuanian Architectural Foundation, Vilnius, Lithuania, 4 June 2021
In our globalized world the accelerating speed of socio-political and cultural change collides with the longue-durée of heritage sites and territories. As social and political contexts around places with a public meaning change, controversies often arise.
Publication Re-Charting Places @ Contested Spaces – Concerted Projects: Designs for Vulnerable Memories, Lettera Ventidue Edizioni, Syracuse, Italy, April 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
Focusing on the cityscape and silenced voices, and fostering memory‑making through innovative, participatory methods that avoid physical intervention.
Lectures & Workshop Resignify City @ Media Architecture Biennale 2021, Amsterdam, Utrecht, The Netherlands, 24 June 2021
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
Hybrid Platforms develops concepts and ideas for new cultural formats and is organized and curated by the NRW KULTURsekretariat and Hybrid Space Lab.
Workshop Hybrid Platforms @ Next Level Festival for Games & NRW KULTURsekretariat, Kokskohlenbunker, Zeche Zollverein, Essen, Germany, 14 November 2020
In the Anthropocene, the juxtaposition between nature versus artifact and designed environment is becoming obsolete. In the dissolution of this polarity lays a great chance: architecture (which in the allegorical depiction of the Vitruvian Primitive Hut by Marc-Antoine Laugier and Charles Eisen of 1753 had emerged from nature) merges with nature once again.
Architecture G AI A @ de Waag Technology & Society, Amsterdam, 2019-2020
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
As museums face a 1.5‑metre‑apart reality, offering meaningful visitor experiences while sustaining financial viability has become one of the urgent challenges.
Research & Ideation @ Hybrid Space Lab, Berlin, 2020
During the COVID‑19 pandemic, digital tools expanded rapidly, and as digitization’s impacts became clearer, new possibilities for spatial organization emerged.
Publication Post COVID-19 City @ KHM #0 Magazine, Academy of Media Arts (KHM), Cologne, Germany, 1 July 2022
With physical distancing, the COVID‑19 pandemic disrupts public space as we know it, creating an urgent need to rethink cultural space and forms of engagement.
Research, Lectures & Workshops @ Cultural Institutions, Germany, 2020-2021
Keynote Hybrid Space @ Culture @ 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
Workshop Hybrid Platforms @ Next Level Festival for Games, Kokskohlenbunker, Zeche Zollverein, Essen, Germany, 14.00–16.30, 14 November 2020
What is the relationship between city visions and urban concepts from the past and today’s Smart City narratives?
Lectures & Discussion Visions, Concepts and Narratives for the Networked City @ Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, Berlin, 20 February 2020
Climate City explores how digital technologies contribute to addressing climate adaptation and develops strategies that take urban sustainability into account.
Lectures & Discussions Climate City @ Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, Berlin, 20 November 2019
Kiez Lab is a hybrid low‑threshold neighbourhood lab with co‑creative formats that embed local and civic experience into Berlin’s digital transformation.
Publications, Presentation, Lectures & Workshops @ Alliance Digital City Berlin, Marlowes Online Magazin for Architectur and City, Berlin Science Week, Mein Berlin,Utopolis Federal Association for Social Culture, Academy for Media Arts, Berlin Cologne, Stuttgart, 2019-2022
How to read territories through their historical ties to former colonies and contribute to shaping an inclusive, cultural heritage becomes a central question.
Lectures, Workshops & Conference International Research Program @ Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, 2019~2022
Lecture @ Media Architecture Biennial 2020, Amsterdam, 29 June-3 Juli 2020
Lecture & Workshop @ Media Architecture Biennial 2021, Amsterdam, 27 June-2 July 2021
Classic transport modes are complemented by new digital, data‑driven mobility services, raising the question which user groups these emerging offers target.
Lectures & Discussion City to Go @ Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, Berlin, 15 July 2019
Linking arts, technology, memory studies and science, Deep Space opens layered meanings of Valle de los Caídos and imagines futures after Franco’s exhumation.
Exhibition, Lecture & Discussion 5 June 2019 @ Goethe Institut, Madrid, 5 June 2019
Monuments stand as a tangible testimony to what is untouchable: memory and history in their collective dimension.
As vehicles of meaning, monuments are ambassadors affecting the public negotiation of narratives
Article Creative Crossovers @ Public Diplomacy Magazine, University of Southern California, USC Annenberg, USC Centre on Public Diplomacy, USC Masters of Public Diplomacy Program, USA, 7 June 2019
Voiced Space is conceptualized by Hybrid Space Lab for Nieuwe Instituut, the Dutch institute for Architecture, Design and Digital Culture.
Research @ Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, 2019
Future Narratives and Immersive Experiences Symposium is part of the Dutch mission accompanying His Majesty King Willem-Alexander and Her Majesty Queen Máxima.
Lectures, Pitches & Dinner Future Narratives and Immersive Experiences Symposium @ Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF, Potsdam, Germany, 22 May 2019
As a consequence of the more than 65 years long near absence of human activity, the Korean DMZ land strip has become a verdant 984 square kilometers nature reserve where endangered flora and fauna species had the chance to regain space.
The Korean DMZ has become a testimony to unintentional beauty. Thriving vegetation and undisturbed wildlife now cover the painful, conflict-born void along the military demarcation.
Over the last few years, it has gathered international attention due to its symbolic value as well as to individual and bilateral bids by North and South Korea securing UNESCO Biosphere status for areas of the DMZ.
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
Digitalization transforms our cities, with far-reaching efforts towards technology-powered increased efficiency, sustainability and at times participation.
Lectures & Discussion City Making in the Digital Age @ Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, Berlin, 21 February 2019
Future Diplomacy Lab offers a space to explore how innovative digital solutions from diverse fields can shape new applications and futures for diplomacy.
Lectures & Workshop Future Diplomacy Lab @ Diplomacy Camp, Embassy Kingdom of the Netherlands, Brussels, 7 February 2019
City Making Lab is a transdisciplinary lab on digitalization and the city developed by the Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society and Hybrid Space Lab.
Research, Lectures & Workshops City Making Lab @ Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, Berlin, 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
Deep Space is a long-term investigative program initiated to deal with politics of memory, controversial space and monuments, digitalization and heritage.
Deep Space: re-signifying Valle de los Caídos aims at developing creative processes, concepts, and ideas that can break through and transform the symbolic power of the place.
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
Green spaces are essential for the quality of life, wellbeing, and health of urban populations.
Lectures & Discussions Embassy Lab GRÜNtopia @ Embassy of Kingdom of the Netherlands , Berlin, 22 June 2018
Keynote Renate Künast, Bündnis 90/Die Grünen @ Embassy of Kingdom of the Netherlands , Berlin, 22 June 2018
Hybrid Biotope, a co-working camp at the Raketenstation Hombroich in spring 2019, explores the merging of nature, artefact and artificial and organic life.
Research & Concept @ Rocket Station Hombroich, Germany, 1 April 2018
Fast-paced advances in technology are creating diffuse and volatile conditions in which international actors operate. Disruptive innovations such as machine learning and big data analytics are changing governments, NGOs, the media, businesses, and in some cases entire industries. New and unexpected players entering the field are putting pressure on the traditional division of roles between politics, business, journalism and civil society.
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 Diplomacy designates the combining of traditional diplomacy and innovative diplomacy.
Lectures, Workshop & Discussions Are You A Hybrid Diplomat ? @ Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Directorate-General for European Cooperation (DGES) & Innovation Team DARE, The Haag, The Netherlands, 18 January 2018
Sharing Economy is a key phenomenon in a rapidly changing world, reshaping life faster than societies and institutions can adapt.
Talks, Lectures, Discussions & Workshop Embassy Lab shareCONOMY @ Embassy Kingdom of the Netherlands, Berlin, 7 July 2017
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
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
Accelerating international tourism is contributing to the global prosperity and enabling intercultural exchange.
Research & Lecture Fu-Tourism @ ARTez, Arhem, The Netherlands, 10 November 2016
An international interdisciplinary lab explores curating as co‑creating with the public and examines how the expert curator’s role is being transformed.
Lectures, Discussions & Workshops Embassy Lab Co-Creating the City @ Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Berlin, 14 October 2016
Ikarian-Cretan Dinner @ Hybrid Space Lab, Berlin, 18.00-23.00, 14 October 2016
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.
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
Digital tools enable participatory networks across borders, as transnational webs act independently of traditional diplomatic channels in a globalized world.
Lectures, Discussions & Workshops Embassy Lab Future Diplomacy @ Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Berlin, 7 October 2016
Innovative, creative and pragmatic Dutch approaches showcased technology solutions for global challenges at Hannover Messe 2014.
Television Program: Interviews, Lectures, Talks & Discussions @ Hannover Messe, Hannover, Germany, 7-10 April 2014
Urban Screening Smart & the City @ Hannover Opera, Hannover, Germany, 7-10 April 2014
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
Embassy Lab Hybrid Health develops innovative health solutions merging physical and digital realms, with applications embedded in daily living environments.
Kingdom of The Netherlands Minister of Health, Welfare and Sport, Edith Schippers is opening Embassy Lab Hybrid Health.
Lectures, Pitches & Workshop, Opening Edith Schippers, Minister of Health, Welfare and Sport, Kingdom of The Netherlands @ Medica, Dusseldorf, Germany, 17 November 2015
Embassy Lab Velo advances sustainable, innovative cycling mobility and fosters knowledge exchange between the City of Amsterdam and the City of Berlin.
Bicycle Tour, Lectures & Discussions Embassy Lab Velo @ Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Berlin, 29 March 2015
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
A jungle for the Humboldt Forum!
The Berlin Humboldt Forum, named after the Humboldt brothers, will become a world center for culture and is housed in the reconstruction of a historical palace.
Hybrid Space Lab designed Humboldt Jungle a hanging garden with lianas overgrowing the Prussian palace 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 @ Dutch Design Foundation, Premsela Stichting, Amsterdam, 15 June 2015
Citizens join countless co‑creation initiatives across private, public, and hybrid domains where boundaries blur and neither sphere can be separated from the other.
Lectures & Workshops @ Make City, the festival for Architecture and City Making, Berlin 11-28 June 2015
CRISISdesign innovates in and for situations of change and crisis for communities that need new infrastructures for daily life.
Lectures & Discussions Embassy Lab CRISIS design @ Metropolitan Solutions, CityCube, Berlin, 22 May 2015
The complexity of urban systems demands involvement of different stakeholders at a very early stage, in order to identify the challenges and define objectives.
Public Lecture Program Embassy Lab Smart City Governance @ Metropolitan Solutions, CityCube, Berlin, 21 May 2015
INbetweenSTITUTE is a strategy for strengthening the Beijing art district 798 as a resilient creative cluster and as China’s Creative Lab.
Embassy Lab Mobility+ investigates the synergies between Smart Mobility and the different systems of Smart City.
Public Lecture & Workshop Program Embassy Lab Mobility+ @ BMW Welt, Munich, 25 February 2015
Embassy Lab Co-Operative is a one-day program for the Berlin visit of the Dutch Minister of the Interior and Kingdom Relations, Ronald Plasterk, February 23rd 2015.
Next to his meeting with the German Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, Barbara Hendricks, Minister Ronald Plasterk visited Berlin urban initiatives, cooperatives and participation movements to discuss them the potential of urban co creation.
Discussions & Visits Embassy Lab Co-Operative @ Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations, Berlin, 23 February 2015
Embassy Lab is innovation program and a prototype for experimenting with future functions of embassies in the current age of EUization, globalization and digitalization.
Embassy Lab at the Royal Netherlands Embassy in Berlin brings together the official traditional institution of the “Embassy” with the innovative potential of a creative “Lab”.
Embassy Lab is a think tank and innovation hub, for research and discussion, for experimenting with new models, and for presenting and communicating ideas.
Research, Workshops, Lectures & Symposiums Embassy Lab @ Embassy of the Kingdom of The Netherlands in Berlin & Kingdom of The Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Hague, 2014~2021
BioBibble is a sustainable urbanism project for the city of Beijing.
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
Aesthetics derives from the ancient Greek αἰσθάνομαι (aisthanomai, meaning “I perceive, feel, sense”) and stands for the capability to perceive Instabilities.
Concept Aesthetics of Instability © Hybrid Space Lab, Berlin, 19 September 2014
Happy Health explores the impact of Smart Cities and related concepts and technologies on wellbeing and the prevention of illness.
Workshop & Public Lecture Program Embassy Lab HAPPY health @ DMY 2014, Tempelhof Airport, Berlin, 29 May 2014
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
Interview with Hybrid Space Lab by the STRELKA Institute in Moscow for the Future Urbanism project.
Interview Future Urbanism @ Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design, Moscow, 15 December 2013
The merging of the three separate Dutch institutes for architecture, design and media, into a new hybrid institute.
Publication Rebooting Design @ The Design Journal, Volume 15, Issue 4, UK, 5 December 2012
Networked participatory design systems are replacing the logics of the industrial age, where the creative ones designed for the non-creative masses.
Publication Networked Participatory Design @ World Architects, 11 May 2012
Copying drives cultural evolution; cross‑fertilization and adopting ideas and elements from other cultures are essential for shaping and advancing development.
Lecture Co-Thenticity @ Dutch Design Institute, Beijing Design Week, Beijing, 28 september 2011
3D printing has developed from a specialized industry to a low cost technology that everyone can use to produce objects.
Workshop & Lecture Prosumer Technology Hybrid Design @ Beijing Design Week 2011, Building 5 No.4 Jiuxianqiao Lu, Chaoyang District, Beijing, P.R. China, 27 September-1 October 2011
Design culture values authenticity, copying is seen not creative, hybridization—mixing cultural elements—is a key evolutionary force in dynamic cultures.
Lecture Hybrid Culture @ Beijing Design Week 2011, Dutch Design Foundation, Symposium Copy Culture, 798, Beijing, 27 September 2011
Idensity® is a conceptual tool for researching and developing space in the information/communication age.
Concept & Research Idensity® © Hybrid Space Lab, Berlin, 5 May 2011
Hybrid Notations workshop tackled the hybridity and complexity of urban environments, relying on a wide range of fields of expertise and artistic approaches.
Publication, Workshop, Installation & Lectures FuTourism @ Centre of Contemporary Art Znaki Czasu, Torun, Poland, 3 April 2011
Digital information‑communication networks reshape our physical environment and transform the social, economic, and cultural organization of society.
Publication Space of Flows and Space of Places versus Hybrid Space @ Delft University of Technology, Delft School of Design Series on Architecture and Urbanism, Delft, the Netherlands, November 2010
Today, media networks are influencing and interacting with real places. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is radically changing the way we live, interact and perceive our world.
Politics, economics, warfare, culture are increasingly taking place in the spaces of information-communication, media networks.
Publication Hybrids @ Interior Wor(l)ds, Umberto Allemandi & C., Torino, Italy, September 2010
Iannis Xenakis (1922–2001), who was originally trained as an engineer, worked as an architect in Le Corbusier’s office.
He designed – in co-authorship with Le Corbusier – the vessel containing the Poème, the shell structure of the Philips Pavilion.
Xenakis, was to become an internationally renowned composer, and he continued his research into complex architectural forms and the equally complex ephemeral architectures of music, sound and light.
Publication Hybrid Architectures of Iannis Xenakis @ Conference Poetics of Space, Sonic Acts 2010, Amsterdam, 25 February 2010
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
Security is a deeply-felt and debated theme: How can we reduce risk and increase the sense of social interaction and identity of social places?
Part of the World Design Capital 2008 and based on Torino case studies and in collaboration with the Torino Integration Policies Department the workshop aims to develop new design thinking models to address these issues.
Safe Space focuses therefore not on singular solutions but on general working tools to tackle these phenomena.
Workshop Safe Space @ World Design Capital, Turin, Italy, 13-20 July 2008
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
Soft Urbanism stands for an interdisciplinary field that examines the “soft” aspects, the communication aspects, the city and deals with the dynamic interplay between urban development and the area of mass media and communication networks.
Soft Urbanism pursues “softer” planning approaches. Soft urbanism, as a holistic view of urbanity, is of significance to the city in both shrinking and growth regions.
Publication Soft Urbanism @ db Deutsche Bauzeitung, Germany, 1 August 2006
Is there no security in the global world? The longing for more certainty in an increasingly complex world – and innovative solutions for coping.
Trust and certainty play an increasingly important role for people in the globalized world.
Publication, Research & Lecture Architecture of Succession @ European Forum Alpbach, Austria, 1 August 2006
The property becomes an interface as the house turns into a smart network. Like the connected car our homes now merge physical space with digital systems.
Interview Social Construction & Technology @ BUGA, Bundesgartenschau 2005, Munich, 1 September 2005
The traditional bourgeois view ties identity to private individuality, yet it is crucial to recognize the historical nature and limits of this privacy concept.
Publication Networked Architecture @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Leonardo Electronic Almanac, ISBN 978-0-9833571-0-0, USA, 1 July 2005
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
Hybrid Urbanism investigates the transformations of space in the information and communication age and develops and designs hybrid urban and media networks.
Lecture & Publication Idensity: Planning Paradigms for the Information & Communication Age @ CORP 2002 Conference, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, 27 February–1 March 2002
Infodrome advises the Dutch government on the information society, studying ICT’s social impact and shaping debate.
Research & Publications @ Infodrome, Thinktank of the Dutch Government, Den Haag, 1 March 2000
From 8–15 October 1999, a boat traveled from Cologne to Amsterdam down the Rhine as reBOOT, a floating media lab linking Germany and the Netherlands.
Concerts, Screenings, Broadcasts, Performances, Projects & Research, Art & Media Lab reBOOT @ KUNST NRW.NL, Motor Boat Carolina, The Rhine, Cologne~Amsterdam, 8-15 October 1999
Hybrid Space is an interdisciplinary design field studying how architecture and urban space transform in the information age and interact with media networks.
Publication Idensifying® Translocalities @ Kunst NRW.NL, Amsterdam, 1 October 1999
In 20th‑century aesthetics, a striking synergy appears as Le Corbusier creates the Electronic Poem and its pavilion for Philips at the 1958 Brussels World Fair.
Research, Lectures & Publications the Architectures of Iannis Xenakis, Synthesis after Le Corbusier, Elizabeth Sikiaridi, © Hybrid Space Lab, Amsterdam, 1 June 1999
Public urban space and digital networks seem to compete, yet telecom systems now take over many traditional public functions once tied to shared urban environments.
Publication Public Media Urban Interfaces @ Lab für Kunst und Apparate, Jahrbuch, ISBN 3-88375-324-6, , Academy for Media Arts, Cologne, Germany, 1 October 1998
The development of Virtual Reality (VR) is closely linked to the exploration of unknown territories. Virtual Reality, slowly emerging since the 1920s, really took off in 1966 when NASA introduced this technology for flight simulation systems in its space program. As it was too expensive and too risky to train the astronauts by practising the real thing – launching them into the cosmos – methods had to be developed that could provide the trainees with a simulated experience: a small physical stimulus of acceleration, supported by and combined with visual information, was extrapolated and amplified in a ‘knock-on’ effect by the brains of the astronauts, providing them with the mental environment required to practise for the operation in (real) space.
Publication Virtual Reality @ de Architect, ten Hagen & Stam bv, the Netherlands, June 1998
The research and seminars explore hybrid (fused physical and digital) space and how the urban can be read as a layered communication-sensitive membrane.
Head of the Department of Hybrid Space, Prof. Frans Vogelaar @ Academy of Media Arts, Cologne, Germany, April 1998
Public urban space and the “space” of communication networks are usually considered to be competing, even mutually exclusive frameworks for social interaction. In fact, the traditional functions of public urban space are being taken over by telecommunication networks, their input/output devices implanted in (private) interiors.
Publication Media & The City @ de Architekt, den Haag, the Netherlands, July 1997
Introduction Harm Tilman, editor in chief @ de Architect, den Haag, the Netherlands, Juli 1997
Architectural space and structures and the mental spaces and structures of philosophical discourses have always been associated with each other.
Article Vilém Flusser © Hybrid Space Lab, Berlin, July 1999
Soft Urbanism deals with information/communication processes in space, the soft aspects overlying the urban sprawl.
Research, Concept, Urban and Architectural Design Soft Urbanism © Hybrid Space Lab, Berlin, 1 December 1995
Technological concept and realization of the digital simulation “HOUSE” for the artist Jan van der Pavert.
The digital simulation was exhibited amongst others in Centraal Museum in Utrecht, 1995 , at the “XIX Triennale di Milano” in 1996, Italy, and at the Dutch Architectural Institute (NAi) in Rotterdam, 1997, and won the Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for Art in 1998.
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
Hybrid Space is the fusion of digital and physical space.
Concept Hybrid Space © Hybrid Space Lab, Berlin, 1988~2024
Architecture as psychological machine.
Design & Exhibition Vivere architettando @ Palazzo Dugnani, Milan, 15 March 1982
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
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