Design Lab

DESIGN LAB

Hybrid Space is an interdisciplinary field of design, researching the transformations of architectural, urban and regional space in the “information age”, exploring the dynamic interaction of architecture, urbanism and mass media and communication networks.

Humboldt KOSMOS

Provoke

KOSMOS is an experimental global hybrid space and infrastructure for the future culture spaces.

KOSMOS opens to all people and communities worldwide who have Internet access to participate in this co-creative hybrid gaming platform to interact with challenges and collectively envision new futures with the aim for its ever- expanding speculative worlds to provoke, inspire, and inform our thoughts.


Humboldt KOSMOS @ Hybrid Space Lab, 2024

Trans Form Nation

Venda

The Venda exhibition shows objects in-between the holy, the everyday, the touristically colonialized and contemporary art, displaying art from the Venda cultural group that lives mainly in the northernmost Limpopo province of South Africa.

Exhibition Concept & Design @ Venda, Museum voor Volkenkunde, Rotterdam, 1 May 1994

Humboldt Jungle

a tropical forest for its roof

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.

We designed a hanging garden with lianas overgrowing the Prussian palace and a tropical forest for its roof.

Humboldt Jungle @ Humboldt Forum, Berlin, 2015-2016

Kiez Lab

Digital transformation  of the City of Berlin

Kiez Lab is a hybrid (combined physical-digital) low-threshold cross-sector neighbourhood lab with inclusive co-creative formats to permanently bring local perspectives and civil society experiences into the digital transformation of the City of Berlin.

The challenges of digital transformation are becoming more and more tangible in the daily lives of Berliners.

There is an increasing need to get involved and take the city’s digital future into one’s own hands.

Research & Concept, Workshops & Publications Kiez Lab © Hybrid Space Lab, Berlin, 2019~2022

Poly Garden City

participative climate adaptation

Poly Garden City is a participative project integrating green into Athens built environment, fusing building and gardens into new hybrid urban typologies, and reinterpreting modernist urban heritage and a strategy for participative climate adaptation for cities in semi-arid climates.


Research & Workshops, Urban Design @ City of Athens, 5 April 2015

coSPECIESlab

Ecological transition

Ecological transition implies and demands a conceptual mutation, a paradigm shift.

This global transition has to integrate systems of knowledge and ways of conceiving the world, some of which are still organizing the daily lives of the inhabitants of cities in the Global South, and are often shunned and disregarded in the Global North.

Workshop coSPECIESlab @ WɔɛLab, Lomé, Togo, 27 November 2023

INbetweenSTITUTE 798

hybrid platform for co-creation

INbetweenSTITUTE reinserts art production in 798. It is a new open infrastructure for co-creation, bridging the private space of artistic creation and the public spaces of the audience.

INbetweenSTITUTE provides a new hybrid infrastructure that fuses the private space of the artist/creative professional with the public spaces of the audience, creating a hybrid platform for co-creation.

Concept, Architectural & Urban Design @ 798 Art District, Beijing, 2012

Smart & the City

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Ubiquitous digitalisation

From Smart City to Smart Citizen: mapping the Smart City, empowering the Smart Citizen.

Smart City is the fusion of the Urban and the Digital Age.

Ubiquitous digitalisation together with the increasing complexity of global challenges demand for interdisciplinary co-designing processes, involving society at large.


Urban Research Smart & the City @ Embassy Kingdom of the Netherlands Berlin, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Kingdom of the Netherlands, The Hague, 2 February 2014

Public Media Urban Interfaces
@ KHM Lab for Art and Apparatus

Public Communication Networks

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 space.

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

Humboldt Volcano

Extension to the Humboldt Forum

As an innovative flexible transparent structure, Humboldt Volcano contrasts with the historical appearance of the introverted power-radiating reconstruction of the Berlin palace, which houses Humboldt Forum.

Humboldt Volcano, standing for a pluralistic multiculturalism, enables the appropriation of the Humboldt Forum, opening it up to the city and international public.

Humboldt Volcano with its crystalline architecture refers to the glass architectures of the German architects Taut – and to other German traditions that opposed the palace and its power structures.


Humboldt Volcano @ Humboldt Forum, Berlin, 2017-2024

NatureTecture

Landscape in the Post-industrial Age

NatureTecture focuses on those fields of work that will become increasingly important internationally for the design of our living environments and formulates relevant questions for the future.

NatureTecture is dedicated to the tasks and instruments of qualifying landscape in the post-industrial age.


Concept, Research & Exhibitions NatureTecture @ Chamber of Architects, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, 1 September 2009

Deep Space

Politics of Memory, Controversial Space and Monuments, Heritage and Digitalization

Deep Space is a long-term investigative program initiated to deal with politics of memory, controversial space and monuments, heritage and digitalization.

Valle de los Caídos with its 152-meter-tall cross visible from more than 30 kilometers away and its “basilica”, a 263-meter long crypt with a 52-meter high vault cut out of the granite mountain rock, is one of the world’s most controversial monuments.

Workshop Deep Space: re-signifying Valle de los Caídos @ Medialab Prado & Valle de los Caídos, Madrid, 25-27 October 2018

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