Fabric @ Foundation Hellenic World

For tanz Yearbook 2022, we wrote the lead article “hybrid,” exploring the body in space amid the fusion of physical and digital realms.

Publication @ tanz Yearbook 2022, Germany, 15 August 2022

Hybrid Spaces explores future social and cultural spaces by linking physical environments with digital networks, highlighting their hybrid qualities.

Publication Hybrid Space @ @ Regeneration [and its Discontents], Lithuanian Architectural Foundation, Vilnius, Lithuania, 4 June 2021

In our globalized world the accelerating speed of socio-political and cultural change collides with the longue-durée of heritage sites and territories.

Publication Re-Charting Places @ Contested Spaces – Concerted Projects: Designs for Vulnerable Memories, Lettera Ventidue Edizioni, Syracuse, Italy, April 2021

During the COVID‑19 pandemic, digital tools expanded rapidly, and as digitization’s impacts became clearer, new possibilities for spatial organization emerged.

Publication Post COVID-19 City @ KHM #0 Magazine, Academy of Media Arts (KHM), Cologne, Germany, 1 July 2022

Kiez Lab is a hybrid low‑threshold neighbourhood lab with co‑creative formats that embed local and civic experience into Berlin’s digital transformation.

Publications, Presentation, Lectures & Workshops @ Alliance Digital City Berlin, Marlowes Online Magazin for Architectur and City, Berlin Science Week, Mein Berlin,Utopolis Federal Association for Social Culture, Academy for Media Arts, Berlin Cologne, Stuttgart, 2019-2022

Monuments stand as a tangible testimony to what is untouchable: memory and history in their collective dimension.
As vehicles of meaning, monuments are ambassadors affecting the public negotiation of narratives

Article Creative Crossovers @ Public Diplomacy Magazine, University of Southern California, USC Annenberg, USC Centre on Public Diplomacy, USC Masters of Public Diplomacy Program, USA, 7 June 2019

The documentary Fabric presents the history of the building complex that houses today the Athens School of Fine Arts, one the main venues of documenta 14 in Athens. It also narrates a family history that spans more than over 100 years and starting in Cappadocia in Central Anatolia, continues via Beirut and Istanbul (Constantinople) arriving in Athens in the 1920ies.

Documentary Video Fabric @ documenta 14, Athens School of Fine Arts, Peiraios Street 256, Athens, 8 April-17 July 2017

Rethinking design to meet future needs in an increasingly service‑ and knowledge‑based society and economy.

Research @ Dutch Design Foundation, Premsela Stichting, Amsterdam, 15 June 2015

The merging of the three separate Dutch institutes for architecture, design and media, into a new hybrid institute.

Publication Rebooting Design @ The Design Journal, Volume 15, Issue 4, UK, 5 December 2012

Networked participatory design systems are replacing the logics of the industrial age, where the creative ones designed for the non-creative masses.

Publication Networked Participatory Design @ World Architects, 11 May 2012

Copying drives cultural evolution; cross‑fertilization and adopting ideas and elements from other cultures are essential for shaping and advancing development.

Lecture Co-Thenticity @ Dutch Design Institute, Beijing Design Week, Beijing, 28 september 2011

Design culture values authenticity, copying is seen not creative, hybridization—mixing cultural elements—is a key evolutionary force in dynamic cultures.

Lecture Hybrid Culture @ Beijing Design Week 2011, Dutch Design Foundation, Symposium Copy Culture, 798, Beijing, 27 September 2011

Idensity® is a conceptual tool for researching and developing space in the information/communication age.

Concept & Research Idensity® © Hybrid Space Lab, Berlin, 5 May 2011

Digital information‑communication networks reshape our physical environment and transform the social, economic, and cultural organization of society.

Publication Space of Flows and Space of Places versus Hybrid Space @ Delft University of Technology, Delft School of Design Series on Architecture and Urbanism, Delft, the Netherlands, November 2010

Today, media networks are influencing and interacting with real places.

Iannis Xenakis, trained as an engineer, worked in Le Corbusier’s office and co‑designed the Philips Pavilion’s shell, the vessel containing the Poème.

Publication Hybrid Architectures of Iannis Xenakis @ Conference Poetics of Space, Sonic Acts 2010, Amsterdam, 25 February 2010

Security is a deeply-felt and debated theme: How can we reduce risk and increase the sense of social interaction and identity of social places?
Part of the World Design Capital 2008 and based on Torino case studies and in collaboration with the Torino Integration Policies Department the workshop aims to develop new design thinking models to address these issues.
Safe Space focuses therefore not on singular solutions but on general working tools to tackle these phenomena.

Workshop Safe Space @ World Design Capital, Turin, Italy, 13-20 July 2008

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

Soft Urbanism stands for an interdisciplinary field that examines the “soft” aspects, the communication aspects, the city and deals with the dynamic interplay between urban development and the area of mass media and communication networks.
Soft Urbanism pursues “softer” planning approaches. Soft urbanism, as a holistic view of urbanity, is of significance to the city in both shrinking and growth regions.

Publication Soft Urbanism @ db Deutsche Bauzeitung, Germany, 1 August 2006

The property becomes an interface as the house turns into a smart network. Like the connected car our homes now merge physical space with digital systems.

Interview Social Construction & Technology @ BUGA, Bundesgartenschau 2005, Munich, 1 September 2005

The traditional bourgeois view ties identity to private individuality, yet it is crucial to recognize the historical nature and limits of this privacy concept.

Hybrid Urbanism investigates the transformations of space in the information and communication age and develops and designs hybrid urban and media networks.

Lecture & Publication Idensity: Planning Paradigms for the Information & Communication Age @ CORP 2002 Conference, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, 27 February–1 March 2002

Infodrome advises the Dutch government on the information society, studying ICT’s social impact and shaping debate.

Research & Publications @ Infodrome, Thinktank of the Dutch Government, Den Haag, 1 March 2000

Hybrid Space is an interdisciplinary design field studying how architecture and urban space transform in the information age and interact with media networks.

Publication Idensifying® Translocalities @ Kunst NRW.NL, Amsterdam, 1 October 1999

In 20th‑century aesthetics, a striking synergy appears as Le Corbusier creates the Electronic Poem and its pavilion for Philips at the 1958 Brussels World Fair.

Research, Lectures  & Publications the Architectures of Iannis Xenakis, Synthesis after Le Corbusier, Elizabeth Sikiaridi, © Hybrid Space Lab, Amsterdam, 1 June 1999

Public urban space and digital networks seem to compete, yet telecom systems now take over many traditional public functions once tied to shared urban environments.

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

The development of Virtual Reality (VR) is closely linked to the exploration of unknown territories.

Publication Virtual Reality @ de Architect, ten Hagen & Stam bv, the Netherlands, June 1998

Public urban space and communication networks are seen as competing realms, yet telecom systems increasingly take over urban functions.

Publication Media & The City @ de Architekt, den Haag, the Netherlands, July 1997
Introduction Harm Tilman, editor in chief @ de Architect, den Haag, the Netherlands, Juli 1997

Architectural space and structures and the mental spaces and structures of philosophical discourses have always been associated with each other.

Article Vilém Flusser © Hybrid Space Lab, Berlin, July 1999