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.
The Tagesspiegel reported on the Greens’ inquiry in the Bundestag regarding the implementation of the Humboldt Jungle, thereby taking up the debate surrounding the project.
Publication Humboldt costs, yes and no @ Der Tagesspiegel, Germany, 19 July 2019
Hybrid Space Lab unleashed intense debate on this utopian idea; mixing tabloid imagery with global green‑city expertise proved a highly effective strategy.
Publication Make City, Francesca Ferguson, MAKE_SHIFT @ Make City, Berlin, May 2019
Hybrid Space Lab exhibits at the Art Museum China.
Exhibition GreenTopia @ Art Museum of China, Greater Bay Area, Shenzhen, P.R. China, 15 March-15 April 2019
Water Consious Fashion is an initiative by Hybrid Space Lab, in cooperation with the Neonyt Fair and the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Berlin.
Publication Neonyt Fair @ Fraulein Magazine, Germany, 15 January 2019
In the chapter “The Schlossplatz and the Museum Island in Berlin” Humboldt Jungle is mentioned as the a rethinking of the Humboldt Forum.
Publication The Vienna Hofburg since 1918 @ Institute of Art and Music Historical Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria, 1 October 2018
The Make City Festival discussed ideas like the Humboldt Volcano at the Humboldt Forum designed by Hybrid Space Lab.
Publication, Susanne Isabel Yacoub @ Garten + Landschaft, Germany, 15 August 2018
Humboldt Volcano was the featured image in the article by TIP Magazine.
Publication, Iris Braun @ TIP, Berlin, 14 June 2018
Anna Yudina joined international experts at the Embassy Lab GREEN TOPIA at the Dutch Embassy, curated by Hybrid Space Lab, as part of the MakeCity festival.
Publication, Sabine Holper @ Der Tagesspiegel, Berlin, 23 June 2018
We are honored that Renate Künast, politician for the Greens and Member of the German Parliament, is opening the Embassy Lab GRÜNtopia.
Lectures & Discussion, Embassy Lab GRÜNtopia, Keynote Renate Künast @ Embassy of Kingdom of the Netherlands, Berlin, 22 June 2018
MakeCity, Berlin’s Festival for Architecture and Urban Alternatives, brings together architects, civic groups and developers to rethink and remake the city.
Discussion Panel @ MakeCity Festivalzentrum, Tschechisches Zentrum, Berlin, 16 June 2018
This is about the utopia of a people-friendly city, Humboldt Volcano as a counterpoint to the Humboldt Forum.
Article @ YEAST, Germany, 15 June 2018
Since yesterday, the MakeCity Festival in Berlin – and it is green!
Publication @ Baunetz, Germany, 15 June 2018
A two‑week program explores how the VOID at the Embassy can become a joyful space for play, dance, lounging, exchange and shared enjoyment.
Opening & Press Conference Public Pop-Up Park @ Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Berlin, 15 June 2018
Reading, Presentation & Discussion Alexander von Humboldt and Humboldt Volcano @ Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, MakeCity Festival, Berlin, 15 June 2018
A bold thought experiment by Hybrid Space Lab: the new Humboldt Forum will become part of a primeval forest.
Publication Rethinking Berlin @ Berliner Kurier, Berlin, 14 June 2018
The architecture festival MakeCity will take place in 2018 under the motto Berlin Remixing | City New Mixed.
Publication, Elena Markus @ Detail, Germany, 14 juni 2018
It must be a notable event when Ada Colau and Sadiq Aman Khan come to Berlin without an invitation from the Governing Mayor.
Publication, Uwe Rada @ TAZ, Berlin, 11 juni 2018
Rüdiger Schaper, culture editor at the Tagesspiegel, presents his Humboldt biography and discusses Hybrid Space Lab’s Humboldt Volcano at MakeCity Studio Talk.
Studio Talk, Reading, Presentation & Discussion @ MakeCity Festival, Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Berlin, 5 June 2018
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
The Swiss architectural magazine archithese published Humboldt Jungle as part of the issue on Ruins.
Publication Humboldt Jungle @ archithese, Architecture Magazine, Switzerland, 15 January 2018
Architects and professors Elizabeth Sikiaridi and Frans Vogelaar were invited to envision the Humboldt Forum’s future with two bold designs: Volcano and Jungle.
Lecture & Discussion @ Berlijnse Avonden e.V., Berlin, 6 January 2018
Urban Garden Kit creates micro‑gardens for Shenzhen Urban Village blocks at Chunjing Street, using a computer gaming platform to enable participation.
Lecture, Workshop & Exhibition @ UABB 2017, Hong Kong & Shenzhen, P.R. China, 16-22 December 2017
NatureTecture explores how architecture merges with green structures as advances in nature, biotech, and tech drive the rise of hybrid architecture.
Lecture NatureTecture @ Media Lab, Central Academy of Fine Arts, No.8 Hua Jia Di Nan Street, Chao Yang District, Beijing, P.R. China, 27 November 2017
Advances like IoT, Big Data, machine intelligence and precision farming shapes life and urban nature, fostering BioTecture where nature and architecture fuse.
Lectures & Discussions @ CAFA Art Museum, Central Academy of Fine Arts Art Museum (CAFA) & Beijing Visual Art Innovation Institute, no 8. Hua Jia Di Nan Jie, Chaoyang District, Beijing, P.R. China, 25-26 November 2017
Recent advances like IoT, Big Data, machine intelligence and precision farming shape life and urban nature, fostering BioTecture fusing nature and architecture.
Lecture BioTecture @ Communication University of China (CUC), Dingfuzhuang, Chaoyang District, Beijing, P.R. China, 24 November 2017
In Hong Kong, Avant Garden presents a hybrid urban typology that fuses nature, culture and festivity in a vertical structure with minimal ground occupation.
Exhibition International Festival of Intermedia @ Hong Kong Jockey Club, Hong Kong, 9-22 October 2017
Improving life in Athens requires thoughtful investment and realistic proposals. Poly Garden City is a project for Athens, which incorporates green on a wide variety of hard surfaces of buildings, creating gardens and helping to change the microclimate.
Article Poly Garden City, Nikos Vatopoulos @ Kathimerini Newspaper, Greece, 29 June 2017
NatureTecture proposes how Internet of Things will merge with green structures in the city.
Lecture & Discussion NatureTecture @ V2 Institute for Unstable Media, Rotterdam, 9 April 2017
In Berlin, revivals of historic symbols and contemporary ideas on the transnational cultural development tie into the under construction Humboldt Forum.
Publication Green Emperor made in Greece, Nikos Vatopulos @ Kathimerini Greek Newspaper, 24 January 2017
Humboldt Volcano and Humboldt Jungle by Hybrid Space Lab are part of the exhibition “Palace.City.Berlin.” in Ephraim Palais in Berlin.
Exhibition Humboldt Forum Future Palace.City.Berlin. @ Ephraim Palace, Berlin, 25 November 2016-23 April 2017
Our current geological age is being described as “anthropocene”, as the epoch during which human activity is the dominant influence on climate and environment.
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
As an innovative flexible structure, Humboldt Volcano contrasts with the historical appearance of the power-radiating reconstruction of the Humboldt Forum.
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
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
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
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
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
Rethinking design to meet future needs in an increasingly service‑ and knowledge‑based society and economy.
Research & Concept @ Dutch Design Foundation, Premsela Stichting, Amsterdam, 15 June 2015
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
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