Founded in Milan in 1976 by Alessandro and his sister Adriana Guerriero, Studio Alchimia revolutionised design worldwide.
Article Studio Alchimia by Hybrid Space Lab @ archithese, Zurich, Switzerland, 8 September 2025
Founded in Milan in 1976 by Alessandro and his sister Adriana Guerriero, Studio Alchimia revolutionised design worldwide.
Article Studio Alchimia by Hybrid Space Lab @ archithese, Zurich, Switzerland, 8 September 2025
June 23rd 2025, a very hot day, in the courtyard of Fondazione Prada in Milan; Alessandro Guerriero is assisted by Marta Di Domizio as his English translator; interviewers are Frans Vogelaar and Elizabeth Sikiaridi of Hybrid Space Lab.
Interview with Alessandro Guerriero by Hybrid Space Lab @ Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy, 23 June 2025
Over 50 interactive workshops & master classes and live performances are scheduled at FUTUROMUNDO.
Elizabeth Sikiaridi will also be there. She stands for a way of working that pursues a transdisciplinary design approach in which the city, nature and the digital are conceived and developed together.
Elizabeth Sikiaridi @ Stuttgarter Zeitung , Germany, 13 March 2025
Hybrid Space Lab initiated research and ideation programs to reimagine hybrid cultural spaces together with international partners such as the Royal Academy of Art & Royal Conservatoire the Hague, Sonic Acts, V2 Lab for Unstable Media, Waag Future Lab, transmediale, CTM Festival, Vibelab, Clubcommision Berlin, Kulturstiftung des Bundes, Amsterdam Dance Event & SEXYLAND World.
Concerts, Jam-sessions, Performances, Screenings & Narrow- and Broadcasts, Workshops & Lectures, @ Royal Academy of Art & Royal Conservatoire the Hague, Sonic Acts, V2 Lab for Unstable Media, Waag Future Lab, transmediale, CTM Festival, Vibelab, Clubcommision Berlin, Kulturstiftung des Bundes, Amsterdam Dance Event & SEXYLAND World, 2020-2025
Publication @ Marlowes Architecture Magazine, Germany, 30 May 2025
The Italian group Alchimia revolutionised design worldwide.
In the late 1970’s, this avant-garde collective dared to make a radical break with functionalism and ushered in a new era of design.
Frans Vogelaar was part of Alchimia in 1981-1982.
Exhibition & Publication @ Alchimia, Bröhan Museum & ADI Design Museum, Berlin & Milan, 17 April – 7 September 2025
Interview by Felix Hofmann, journalist at the Berlin taz newspaper in the taz Schlossaneignung Blog.
Interview & Publication, Felix Hofmann @ taz, Berlin, 27 November 2024
An article by Philipp Oswalt, an initiator of Sclossaneignung Initiative, in DOM magazine 17, mentions Humboldt Jungle, Hybrid Space Lab’sinitiative for greening the Humboldt Forum façade.
Publication Schlossaneignung, Philipp Oswalt @ DOM magazine No. 17, DOM Publishers, Berlin, 1 November 2024
The demands on our cities’ open spaces are far-reaching.
They should be ecologically valuable and adapted to climate change, as in view of the global climate crisis, the habitats of people, animals and plants are increasingly under threat.
Open spaces should also strengthen interaction and community building in the urban environment, be multifunctional, aesthetically pleasing and health-promoting.
Publication Sustainable Landscape Design and Development @ Baukultur NRW, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, 15 September 2024
Museum Director Paul Spies takes stock: “The streams of tourists are bypassing the Humboldt Forum”
There were wonderful proposals for the palace, such as a green façade.
Interview Paul Spies by Birgit Rieger @ Tagesspiegel, Berlin, 29 June 2024
Hybrid Space Lab developed a series of projects for the radical appropriation of the controversial Humboldt Forum in Berlin:
Whereas Humboldt Jungle formulated a strong vision for the re-wilding of the Forum and Humboldt Volcano developed a concrete architectural design solution that addresses many of the foreseeable problems in the Humboldt Forum and that could be realized in the (near) future, Humboldt Kosmos is a fictional universe based on Humboldt Forum that opens up a multiplicity of possible futures.
Publication Humboldt Futures @ Atlas der Datenkörper 2, Transcript Verlag, Germany, 27 May 2024
Playgrounds, gardens, sports areas.
The roofs of apartment buildings can become a true above-ground city, with multiple benefits for the environment and our socializing.
Interview @ SHEDIA magazine 111, Athens, May 2023
A sort of staircase enveloped in jungle thickets, a waterfall and food offerings on the way up to the roof of Berlin’s city castle.
Publication @ RBB, Berlin, 5 February 2023
As adventurous as Humboldt himself: The design by the architecture firm Hybrid Space Lab for the Berlin Palace.
Publication by Julia Weiss @ Tagesspiegel, Berlin, 31 January 2023
Hybrid Space Lab wrote the lead article “hybrid” for tanz yearbook 2022, the international magazine for ballet, dance and performance, focussing on the body and space in the context of the physical and the digital.
Publication hybrid @ tanz, Germany, 19 August 2022
The pilot issue of KHM Magazine (#0) entitled “Out of Time” will address questions such as: What does it mean for people in general and artists in particular to have to keep their distance? How do we experience the changing world, the fears, hopes or anger, promises and consolations? How can we react to them or think of them in terms of a changed future? How is our relationship to closeness and distance changing?
Article Post COVID-19 City @ Academy of Media Arts, Cologne, Germany, 27 July 2022
Publication by Sílvia Marimon Molas at the leading Catalan newspaper ARA on how Spanish authorities are relocating symbols of the dictatorship.The article on Spain’s ‘uncomfortable memory’ refers to the Hybrid Space Lab’s project Deep Space.
Deep Space is a long-term investigative program initiated to deal with politics of memory, controversial space and monuments, digitalization and heritage.
Publication Uncomfortable Memory, Sílvia Marimon Molas @ ARA Catalan Newspaper, Barcelona, 16 July 2022
Interview with Elizabeth Sikiaridi by Britta Bürger on Iannis Xenakis‘ architectures in the live programme “Fazit” of the German cultural radio “Deutschlandfunk Kultur” on the occasion of Iannis Xenakis‘ 100th birthday about his work and importance as an architect.
Interview in German with Elizabeth Sikiaridi by Britta Bürger on Iannis Xenakis @ Fazit, Deutschlandfunk Kultur, Live Radio, 29 May 2022
How to re-signify heritage and physical monuments with the help of creative visions and hybrid (combined physical and digital) tools? Hybrid Heritage engages with this challenge presenting a series of projects researching and designing contemporary interpretations and further development of heritage from a multicultural perspective. Including the integration of digital technology and media networks in heritage projects, Hybrid Heritage also focuses on cultural hybridity in today’s globalized world.
Publication Hybrid Heritage @ Identity and Heritage, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Stuttgart, Germany, 1 Februari 2022
Baunetz showcases ReWild Autobahn as part of the Berlin Atlas.
Publication ReWild Autobahn @ BauNetz, Berlin Atlas, Berlin, 19 November 2021
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 Spaces @ Regeneration [and its Discontents], Lithuanian Architectural Foundation, Vilnius, Lithuania, 4 June 2021
We need a fresh, radically innovative and solutions-oriented approach to address the various forms of contested heritage sites in a way that is fit for the 21st century.
Article on Hybrid Space Lab’s work on contested monuments, is published in Italy.
Publication Re-Charting Places @ Contested Spaces – Concerted Projects: Designs for Vulnerable Memories, LetteraVentidue Edizioni, Syracuse, Italy, April 2021
Hjärnstorm, the Swedish independent journal of art, literature, philosophy published an article on Deep Space.
Publication Valle de los Caídos: the Digital Architecture Embraces a Painful Heritage, Cecilia Nyman @ Hjärnstorm Stockholm, 5 January 2021
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 victims’ perspective.
Publication Informing instead of glorifying, Jørg Himmelreich, @ archithese, Switserland, 28 November 2020
The Valle de los Caídos is highly controversial as a memorial of the fallen of the Spanish Civil War: for a long time, it mainly served the glorification of the dictator Franco. The “Deep Space” project wants to show visitors also the site’s dark side.
Interview, Eckhard Roelcke, journalist @ Deutschlandfunk Kultur, Germany, 8 August 2020
Berlin’s contribution to the debate on monuments: What to do with Franco’s mausoleum?
Do not destroy it, says the Berlin office Hybrid Space Lab as it lays out ideas for a new way of dealing with the controversial Franco memorial in the “Valley of the Fallen” near Madrid.
Publication, Bernhard Schultz, journalist @ Der Tagesspiegel, Berlin, 16 July 2020
Monuments are Vehicles of Meaning. Elizabeth Sikiaridi and Frans Vogelaar research how to negotiate monuments’ narratives and how to bring criticism.
Interview, Brigitte Werneburg, journalist @ taz, Germany, 14 July 2020
As the use of digital instruments is rapidly increasing during the current COVID-19 pandemic, new options for spatial organization and the possible consequences of digitization are more sharply outlined. This creates the necessity to rethink the digitalization model we want to follow and to address issues such as who should benefit from digitization and what our city visions are.
Publication The Right to the Hybrid City @ Marlowes Magazine for Architecture and City, Germany, 19 May 2020
Interview by Rūta Leitanaitė on Lithuanian Radio on how the physical and the digital dimensions of the city interact, on how to develop cities in an integrated way, making the city more fair, comfortable, and attractive.
Interview City of Bricks and Bits, Rūta Leitanaitė @ Lithuanian Radio, “Need an Architect”, Lithuania, 2 April 2020
What would it be like if a volcano erupted next to the new Berlin City Palace?
If huge trees grew there, exotic plants proliferated and a waterfall cascaded down?
Publication Future Heritage @ Points of View, DASA Museum, Dortmund, Germany 1 March 2020
Humboldt Jungle and Humboldt Volcano are mentioned by author and historian Merlijn Schoonenboom in the book on identity “Een kleine geschiedenis van de grootse Duitse worsteling”.
Publication A small history of the great German struggle, Merlijn Schoonenboom @ Querido Publishers, Amsterdam, 5 December 2019