Humboldt Volcano @ Humboldt Forum Future

KOSMOS is a prototype for new venues enabling global cultural exchange and a testing ground for future museums and cultural institutions.

Kosmos @ Hybrid Space Lab, 2024-2027

Humboldt Futures offers a global co‑creative gaming platform for exchange and collective production to question dystopias and imagine positive cultural futures.

Dinner Humboldt Futures @ Hybrid Space Lab, Berlin 11 January 2024
Workshop Ideation, Presentation & Discussion Humboldt Futures @ Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, 12 January 2024

A vertical jungle in a greenhouse pavilion clings to the Berlin Humboldt Forum. A trail leads from the underground to the roof of the Humboldt Forum, opening up stacked gardens and pop-up restaurants dedicated respectively to world flora and world cuisines.

A jungle for the Humboldt Forum!
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.
Hybrid Space Lab designed Humboldt Jungle a hanging garden with lianas overgrowing the Prussian palace and a tropical forest for its roof.

Research & Design Humboldt Jungle @ Humboldt Forum, Berlin, 2016-2017

Interview by Felix Hofmann, journalist at the Berlin taz newspaper in the taz Schlossaneignung Blog.

Interview & Publication, Felix Hofmann @ taz, Berlin, 27 November 2024

An article by Philipp Oswalt in DOM 17 mentions Humboldt Jungle, Hybrid Space Lab’s initiative to green the Humboldt Forum façade.

Publication Schlossaneignung, Philipp Oswalt @ DOM magazine No. 17, DOM Publishers, Berlin, 1 November 2024

Hybrid Space Lab developed a series of projects for the radical appropriation of the controversial Humboldt Forum in Berlin.

Publication Humboldt Futures @ Atlas der Datenkörper 2, Transcript Verlag, Germany, 27 May 2024

A sort of staircase enveloped in jungle thickets, a waterfall and food offerings on the way up to the roof of Berlin’s city castle.

Publication @ RBB, Berlin, 5 February 2023

As adventurous as Humboldt himself: The design by the architecture firm Hybrid Space Lab for the Berlin Palace.

Publication by Julia Weiss @ Tagesspiegel, Berlin, 31 January 2023

How to re-signify heritage and physical monuments with the help of creative visions and hybrid (combined physical and digital) tools? Hybrid Heritage engages with this challenge presenting a series of projects researching and designing contemporary interpretations and further development of heritage from a multicultural perspective. Including the integration of digital technology and media networks in heritage projects, Hybrid Heritage also focuses on cultural hybridity in today’s globalized world.

Publication Hybrid Heritage @ Identity and Heritage, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Stuttgart, Germany, 1 Februari 2022

Publication on Hybrid Space Lab’s work on contested monuments is published in book “Designs for Vulnerable Memories”.

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

What would it be like if a volcano erupted next to the new Berlin City Palace?

Publication Future Heritage @ Points of View, DASA Museum, Dortmund, Germany 1 March 2020

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”.

Publication A small history of the great German struggle, Merlijn Schoonenboom @ Querido Publishers, Amsterdam, 5 December 2019

The Mart Stam Stiftung frequently organizes symposia in cooperation with the Royal Dutch Embassy of Berlin.

Poster @ Mart Stam Stiftung, Berlin, 15 November 2019

Hybrid Space Lab plan is in line with the most important question for contemporary cultural identity: the relationship between tradition and innovation.

Publication A small history of the biggest German struggle, Merlijn Schoonenboom @ Querido Publishers, Amsterdam, November 2019

Der Tagesspiegel berichtete über die Grünen‑Anfrage im Bundestag zur Umsetzung des Humboldt Jungle und griff damit die Debatte um das Projekt auf.

Publication Humboldt costs, yes and no @ Der Tagesspiegel, Germany, 19 July 2019

One question the Green Party put before the Bundestag on 2 July 2019 concerned the Humboldt Forum and addressed issues central to the project’s direction.

Publication 19/11306 Answer @ Deutscher Bundestag, German Federal Government, Germany, 2 July 2019

In the chapter “The Schlossplatz and the Museum Island in Berlin” Humboldt Volcano 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

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 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

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

Humboldt Volcano is shortlisted as a candidate for Social Design Award by DER SPIEGEL. The Social Design Award honours special urban development projects.

Social Design Award @ DER SPIEGEL, Germany, 29 September-26 October 2017

Only a few construction projects in Germany are more controversial than the rebuilding of the City Palace in Berlin. With a bold plan, the Dutch professor Frans Vogelaar knows how to break the stuck debate.In the heart of Berlin one of the most controversial buildings of the moment stands out: the rebuilding of the Berliner Stadtschloss.

Publication, Bertus Bouman @ duitslandnieuws.nl, Berlin, 15 September 2017

Rüdiger Schaper, head of the cultural section of the German newspaper Der Tagesspiegel presents the Humboldt Volcano in an article entitled “Welcome to the Jungle – rescheduling is not forbidden, there is still time. The article, which gives an overview of the current discussion about the Humboldt Forum, is illustrated with a large-scale image of Humboldt Volcano. Humboldt Volcano acts as a symbol and icon for a better Humboldt Forum.

Publication Rüdiger Schaper @ Der Tagesspiegel, Berlin, 1 September 2017

In Deutsche Bauzeitung the author Bernhard Schulz, who is editor in the culture edition of Tagesspiegel Berlin publishes an article on the reconstruction of the Berlin City Palace.
The article also refers to Humboldt Volcano.

Article Fake Architecture, Bernhard Schulz @ DB Deutsche Bauzeitung, Germany, 1 September 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

DER TAGESSPIEGEL Kunst 2016, published for the 9th Berlin Biennale, by Bettina Homann’s with an interview on the projects Humboldt Volcano and Humboldt Jungle.

Publication Design Zone by Bettina Homann @ DER TAGESSPIEGEL Kunst 2016, Berlin, 2 September 2016

Berliners, do you want this fairy tale castle?
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

DIE ZEIT, the German weekly newspaper publishes an article by Dr. Werner Bloch on Humboldt Dschungel.
Berlin discusses a big idea: the Humboldt Dschungel.
It is the idea to elicit from the bold cultural monster, the Humboldt Forum, something more playful, rampant, outlandish…Is Humboldt Dschungel 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 Humboldt Jungle project team: Uta Belkius, Hybrid Space Lab (Prof. Elizabeth Sikiaridi, Prof. Frans Vogelaar) and Notker Schweikhardt invited Berlin experts from the Kulturpolitische Gesellschaft, the Chamber of Architects, the Association of Landscape Architects, the WWF, and various foundations to discuss and promote the Humboldt Jungle project—the (temporary) greening of the facade of the Humboldt Forum.
Andreas Krüger from the Belius Foundation, which also supports the project, hosted the evening.

Lecture by Prof. Elizabeth Sikiaridi & Prof. Frans Vogelaar @ @ GRÜN.kulturell, Alte Tankstelle, Berlin, 29 January 2016

A press, publications, web, radio overview on Hybrid Space Lab’s “Humboldt Jungle” project from 2015-2025.

Awareness Campaign Humboldt Jungle @ Press, Germany & International, 2015-2025

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