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, Elizabeth Sikiaridi @ SHEDIA magazine 111, Athens, May 2023
#Sustainability Lab
In our time of 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.
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ANIMALfest @ Berlin
The Berlin Government is establishing a creative and tech festival in Berlin in order to increase the city’s international appeal.
Lecture, Prof. Elizabeth Sikiaridi @ betahaus, Berlin, 19.00-22.00, 22 March 2023
Panel, Steve Austen & Paul Spies @ Holzmarkt, Berlin, 19.00-22.00, 11 April 2023
Startup Energy Transition Festival 2023 @ Berlin
Startup Energy Transition Festival 2023 brings together a global network of innovators shaping the future of energy by start-ups, innovation-driven corporates, investors, & public organisations.
Moderation Panel & Lecture: Building a Sustainable Future: Offsetting Emissions in Smart Cities @ Startup Energy Transition Festival 2023, Berlin, 9:50-10:20, 28 March 2023
circulariCITY @ Bits & Bäume
Workshop and presentation of circulariCITY at the Bits & Bäume 2022 Conference.
Bits & Bäume connect communities and stand up for political change in the interaction of digitalisation and sustainability.
Workshop & Presentation @ Bits & Bäume 2022 Conference, Technical University Berlin, 30 September – 2 October 2022
ReWild Autobahn @ BDA Berlin
ReWild Autobahn is presented at the gallery of the Association of German Architects.
Exhibition, BDA Galerie Berlin, 6 October – 26 November 2021
Humboldt Volcano @ Berlin Questions Conference for the Immediate Present
Lecture at Berlin Questions Conference for the Immediate Present.
Lecture @ Berlin Questions Conference for the Immediate Present, Berlin, Germany 14 August 2021
Hybrid Spaces @ Lithuanian Union of Architects
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 Space @ Regeneration [and its Discontents], Lithuanian Union of Architects, Vilnius, Lithuania, 4 June 2021
Master Class @ Film University Babelsberg
Hybrid Space Lab contributes to the International Master Class Artistic Research, pioneering developments of immersive 360° concepts and narratives.
Masterclass @ Film University Babelsberg, Potsdam, Germany, 7-18 September 2020
Lecture @ AMPS University of Kent
As in the 21st Century the world develops a deeper understanding of heritage, digital technology is ever more present in our reading of the past. Hybrid Space Lab’s lecture Hybrid Heritage addresses how to best unlock the unique potentialities of this interdisciplinary and technological moment.
Lecture @ AMPS, University of Kent, 29-30 June 2020
The Cross @ Humboldt Forum
Professor Sharon Macdonald, Alexander von Humboldt Professor of Social Anthropology at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, refers to our Humboldt Jungle project as an example and an inspiration for the creative appropriation and transformation of the Humboldt Forum.
Publication @ Humboldt Forum website, Germany, 15 June 2020
Climate City @ Berlin City
A lecture and a workshop at Köpenick Town Hall in Berlin explored concepts and instruments to consider the spatial and social dimensions of the climate city with an integrated approach. Accounting for both the spatial and the social, the workshop contributed to the strategic development of a concept for Köpenick’s public spaces.
Climate City @ Köpenick Town Hall, Council Chamber, Berlin, 27 February 2020
Newsletter February 2020
Amidst increasing digitalization of cities, alternative social and urban approaches and inputs at play open up room for possibility for shaping urban-tech.
Humbolt Jungle & Humboldt Volcano @ Publisher Querido
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”.
Book “A small history of the great German struggle” @ Publisher Querido, Amsterdam, 5 December 2019
Make Space @ Mart Stam Stiftung
The Mart Stam Stiftung frequently organizes symposia in cooperation with the Royal Dutch Embassy of Berlin. The aim is to create a dialog on interdisciplinary themes in the field of art and design in the Netherlands and Germany by juxtaposing cultural differences.
Poster @ Berlin, 15 November 2019
Newsletter November 2019
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.
Humboldt Volcano @ Querido Publishers
Hybrid Space Lab plan is in line with the undoubtedly most important question for contemporary cultural identity: the relationship between tradition and innovation. Their idea of a growing green world around the castle is the portrayal of the idea of tradition as a dynamic phenomenon.
Publication @ A small history of the biggest German struggle, Merlijn Schoonenboom, 11 November 2019
Humboldt Jungle @ Make City
Hybrid Space Lab unleashed and subsequently curated a heated discourse around this utopian proposition. The combination of tabloid-friendly imagery with international expertise on greening cities and climate change proved to be a highly effective strategy.
Humboldt Volcano @ The Vienna Hofburg
In the chapter “International Developments; The Schlossplatz and the Museum Island in Berlin” Humboldt Volcano is mentioned as the example of the rethinking of the Humboldt Forum.
Publication, The Vienna Hofburg since 1918, @ Institut für kunst- und musikhistorische Forschungen, Austrian Academy of Sciences , 2018
Humboldt Volcano @ Garten + Landschaft
How is Berlin becoming a socially just smart city?
The Make City Festival discussed ideas like a Volcano at the Humboldt Forum designed by Hybrid Space Lab.
Publication @ Garten + Landschaft, Germany, 15 August 2018
GREENtopia @ Art Museum of China
The museum space (1600 sqm) will be transformed into a creative laboratory, an interdisciplinary platform co-developed by international artists, creative thinkers, independent scholars, urban planners and stakeholders, a mini co-op city inside a skyscraper.
Exhibition @ Art Museum of China, Greater Bay Area, Shenzhen, China, 15 March-15 April 2019
Humboldt Volcano @ YEAST
The “MakeCity 2018” architecture festival with 250 events in 18 days aims to make architecture in the capital more transparent and invites people to join in the conversation and help develop it
Article @ YEAST, Germany 15 June 2018
Humboldt Volcano @ Baunetz
With the increasing urbanization and the virulent climate crisis, interest in nature is also growing. In various formats, such as talks, discussions, guided tours, exhibitions, workshops, open-house events and more, the public is invited to think of green and gray infrastructure in the city. Something like this: what if we were to look at urban space from the perspective of animals and plants?
Publication @ Baunetz, Germany, 15 June 2018
Humboldt Volcano @ Berliner Kurier
The “MakeCity 2018” architecture festival with 250 events in 18 days aims to make architecture in the capital more transparent and invites people to join in the conversation and help develop it.
Publication @ Berliner Kurier, Berlin, 14 June 2018
Humboldt Volcano @ TIP
Berlin urgently needs new ideas, impulses and visions.
Publication by Iris Braun @ TIP, Berlin, 14 June 2018
Humboldt Volcano @ Detail
The architecture festival MakeCity will take place in 2018 under the motto Berlin Remixing | City New Mixed.
Article by Elena Markus @ Detail, Deutschland, 14 June 2018
Humboldt Volcano @ TAZ
It must be a very special event when Ada Colau, former city activist and since 2015 Mayor of Barcelona, and Sadiq Aman Khan, London’s first Muslim city head, travel to Berlin without being invited by the Governing Mayor. Nevertheless, both will be in town on Thursday – and will open the second Make City Festival with building senator Katrin Lompscher and other guests. The theme of the 18-day event is “City Remixed”.
Publication @ TAZ, Berlin, 11 June 2018
Embassy Lab @ Tagesspiegel
The “Gardens of the Diaspora” in the W. Michael Blumenthal Academy are a possible answer to this question: When the natural spaces in the city go back, nature gets into the rooms. The Diaspora gardens are one of many examples the book “Garden City: Supergreen Buildings, Urban Skyscapes, and the New Planted Space”. It was edited by Anna Yudina, member of the cooperative A 10 New European Architecture.
Among other international experts, she was invited to attend the “Embassy Lab GREEN TOPIA” at the Dutch Embassy, where Elizabeth Sikiaridi and Frans Vogelaar of Hybrid Space Lab invited to the event, which is part of the international festival “MakeCity”.
Publication @ Der Tagesspiegel, Berlin, 23 June 2018
Renate Künast @ Embassy Lab GRÜNtopia
We are very honored that Renate Künast, politician for the Bündnis 90/Die Grünen and Member of the German Parliament is opening Embassy Lab GRÜNtopia.
Green spaces are essential for the quality of life, wellbeing, and health of urban populations. Today, the focus on and interest in green urban spaces is increasing thanks to initiatives working toward Healthy Cities, environmental justice, food security, and strengthening local communities.
Lectures & Discussions @ Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Berlin, 22 June 2018
Alexander von Humboldt and Humboldt Volcano @ Tagesspiegel
Rüdiger Schaper, author and head of the cultural department of the Berlin “Tagesspiegel” presents his biography on Alexander von Humboldt and discusses Hybrid Space Lab’s Humboldt Volcano project during our Studio Talk @ MakeCity Festival. Moderation is by Merlijn Schoonenboom, historian and journalist.
Reading, Presentation & Discussion, biography on Alexander von Humboldt and GRÜNtopia, Studio Talk, @ Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Klosterstraße 50, Berlin, 19.30-21.00, 15 June 2018
GRÜNtopia @ MakeCity
We are honored to join Sir Peter Cook, architect and writer, founder of Archigram, we will present GRÜNtopia.
“MakeCity the Festival for Architecture and Urban Alternatives in Berlin brings together architect, planners, civic groups and developers in a citywide conversation on thinking and making city differently.