798 and the Creative Cluster Conundrum is an ambitious project shaping the next phase of Beijing’s 798 Art District and is presented during Beijing Design Week.
Workshop & Presentation INbetweenSTITUTE @ Urban China Magazine, Beijing, 26 – 27 September 2016
Berliner Kurier, the Berlin newspaper, publishes an article by Stefanie Hildebrandt on Humboldt Jungle.
Publication Berliners, do you want this fairy tale castle? Stefanie Hildebrandt @ Berliner Kurier, 20 February 2016
Berlin discusses a big idea: the Humboldt Jungle, is this the better Humboldt Forum?
Publication Is this the rescue?, Dr. Werner Bloch @ DIE ZEIT, Nr. 9/2016, Germany, 18 February 2016
German radio presents interviews and discussions on Hybrid Space Lab’s Humboldt Jungle proposal for the future of the Humboldt Forum in Berlin.
Interview, Dr. Werner Bloch @ MDR Figaro, WDR3, Deutschlandfunk, Ö1 ORF1, Germany & Austria, 10, 11, 18 February 2016
Discussion @ SWR2 Wissensmagazin, Germany, 11 February 2016
Discussion @ NDR3 Journal, Germany, 11 February 2016
Discussion @ SR2 Kulturmagazin Länge Sieben, Germany, 11 February 2016
Discussion Greening of the facade is “absurd idea” @ Deutschlandradio Kultur, Germany, 15 February 2016
Discussion Wilhelm von Boddien & Elizabeth Sikiaridi on the Humboldt Jungle @ Deutschlandradio Kultur, Germany, 19 February 2016
The online symposium “Korean Demilitarized Zone | European Green Belt Convers(at)ions: Dialogue and Transformation” brings together stakeholders and institutions involved in the development of the European Green Belt and of the Korean DMZ with experts from ecology, creative fields, culture, and conflict analysis and resolution.
Convers(at)ions online Symposium @ Korean Demilitarized Zone, Online, October 2025
At the Berlin Castle, where the baroque façade is still missing, “Humboldt Jungle” is planned; initiators consulted experts and politacal groups.
Publication Seductive Image, Brigitte Werneburg, Journalist @ TAZ, Berlin, 8 July 2015
Networked systems reshape society as the digital transforms production and communication, participatory urban/architectural design are increasingly relevant.
Networked Participatory Design @ DAMDI Publishing House, Seoul, Republic of Korea, 1 May 2015
Eric Kluitenberg dates Hybrid Space Lab’s concept to 1999, but Hybrid Space Lab began exploring physical–digital space and coined Hybrid Space already in 1988.
Publication Affect Space, Eric Kluitenberg @ open! Platform for Art, Culture & the Public Domain, Amsterdam, 10 March 2015
Greek lifestyle magazine Lifo published article on Hybrid Space Lab’s workshop on the revision of the “hated” Athenian apartment buildings.
Article by Dimitris Kyriazis @ Lifo, Athens, 14 January 2015
Publication by Hybrid Theory and Practice in Format P: Disobedience. Theory and Practice by the Bec Zmiana Foundation, Warsaw.
Publication Hybrid Theory and Practice, Disobedience: Theory and Practice @ Format P, Bec Zmiana Foundation, Warsaw, Poland, December 2013
Eight world-renowned Chinese and international offices and experts produced an integrated city planning strategy, presented during Beijing Design Week.
Lectures & Discussions @ UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, 798, No. 4 Jiuxianqiao Lu, Beijing, 28 September 2014
Merkel admonishes industry; Holland lets opera shine as films on the “City of the Future” light up the opera façade nightly through Wednesday.
Projection Smart & The City @ Opera, Hannover, Germany, 5 April 2014
On 9 April 2014, the Opera House walls became a canvas; a 15‑minute animation by Hybrid Space Lab played in a continuous loop on the façade.
Publication City of Light Projection @ Hannoversche Allgemeine, Hannover, Germany, 9 April 2014
Creative fields from music to architecture now merge through one universal tool—the computer—which connects and integrates these diverse forms of production.
Publication Dutch Open @ Design Journal Volume 15, United Kingdom, December 2012
Modular elements ease planning and building, yet demand adaptability for living and working needs—an issue explored in MAKK’s “Architekturteilchen” exhibition.
Publication by Jorg Zimmermann @ Stylepark, Germany, 1 May 2012
Max Urai interviews Professor Frans Vogelaar, who is a professor for Hybrid Space at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne.
Interview by Max Urai @ BLIK #5.0, University Utrecht, Media and Cultural Sciences, Utrecht, The Netherlands, March 2012
Forbes published article on Hybrid Space Lab’s workshop and lectures on Hybrid Design and 3D Printing at the Beijing Design Week 2011.
Publication Re: Thinking Innovation, Haydn Shaughnessy @ Forbes, USA, 16 October 2011
Department of Hybrid Space , Prof. Frans Vogelaar, presents “Hybrid Design”, consisting of lectures, screenings and a workshop on self replicating 3D printers.
Lectures, Exhibition & Workshop Hybrid Design @ Beijing Design Week, Beijing, China, 27 September-3 October 2011
The exhibition “ NatureTecture ” by Hybrid Space Lab on the development of landscape architecture in Europe was on display in Istanbul until mid-December 2010.
Publication NatureTecture @ Deutsches Architektenblatt, Germany, 1 February 2010
Exhibition “NatureTecture” by the Chamber of Architects NRW shows how landscapes evolved over centuries and the challenges facing today’s landscape architects.
Publication NatureTecture@ Deutsches Architektenblatt, Germany, 1 March 2010
In societies of control, power acts at a distance as one mind influences another through the brain’s affective capacities, mediated and amplified by technology.
Publication Cognitive Space, From Biopolitics to Noopolitics Architecture & Mind in the Age of Communication and Information @ 010 Publishers, Delft School of Design Series on Architecture and Urbanism, Rotterdam, 2010
The Winter Worm Summer Herb pavilion uses triangular plywood plates bound with cable ties, forming a low‑tech mobile structure.
Publication City Kit @ Platform 21, Dutch Design Foundation, the Netherlands, 20 October 2008
Soft Urbanism studies the city’s “soft” communication aspects and the dynamic interplay of urban planning with mass media and communication in public space.
Publication Soft Urbanism @ Stadperspektiven, University Dortmund, Germany, 1 September 2008
Playing the game City Kit, you adapt a digital version of your local surroundings according to your desires.
Exhibition City Kit @ Checking Reality, Dutch Design Foundation Premsela, Platform 21, Amsterdam, 18 May-27 August 2008
Publication @ Curatorial Cooking, Dutch Design Foundation Premsela, Platform 21, Amsterdam, 18 May 2008
Lecture Participatory Design @ Club Real #4, Dutch Design Foundation Premsela, Platform 21, Amsterdam, 27 August 2008
NNC works at the scale of a 4,435‑km² agglomeration with over 5 million people; in 2010, Europe’s Cultural Capital is not a city but the Ruhr region.
Publication Neighbours Network City @ Metalocus, Madrid, Spain, 20 May 2007
Urban redevelopment starts selectively in the urban field with conversions and extensions, using resources sparingly and strategically.
Publication Urban Acupuncture @ Deutsche Bauzeitung Germany, 20 February 2007
A striking artistic synergy emerges in 20th‑century aesthetics as Le Corbusier creates an electronic poem and pavilion for Philips at the 1958 Brussels Expo.
Publication “From event structure to spatial form” @ Klangräume der Kunst, Kehrer Verlag, 7 Juli 2006
The interactive Audio Lounge provides the framework for Talking Cities Radio, designed exclusively for Talking Cities.
Audio Lounge is realised in cooperation with students from the “Hybrid Space” project group of Prof. Frans Vogelaar, Academy of Media Arts, Cologne.
Exhibition Talking Cities Radio @ Talking Cities, Essen, Germany, 16 May 2006
Inner cities in the Ruhr face shrinking purchasing power, vacancies and sameness; the question is how far this structural decline will continue.
Publication & Interview Structural change, Axel Schuch @ Wirschaftjahrbuch, Germany, 1 May 2006
How can architects and urban designers apply games and game technologies as tools for drafting and planning?
Publication Sub City @ Space Time Play, Birkhäuser, Publishers for Architecture, Basel, Boston, Berlin, 1 April 2006