Embodied knowledge, design practices, and living archives in hybrid spaces.
[Hybrid]Forum 12 explores how design, communication, and knowledge processes in architecture are changing under conditions of increasing digitality and virtuality—and how embodied knowledge in motion (e.g., as gesture or interaction) can be methodically tapped into, conveyed, and archived as a design resource in hybrid, digitally and virtually augmented spaces.
Lecture by Prof. Elizabeth Sikiaridi & Prof. Frans Vogelaar @ [Hybrid]Forum Conference 2026, Stuttgart, Germany, 27 November 2026
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Netzwerk Architektur-wissenschaft e.V.
Netzwerk Architekturwissenschaft e.V. (Network for Architectural Science, Inc.) in cooperation with the Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences (HFT), Faculty of Architecture and Design, and the XR+LAB.[Hybrid]Forum 12 is funded by the Sutor Foundation (Foundation for the Promotion of Architectural and Technical Science).
12th Forum on Architectural Studies
Ephemeral Spaces in Architecture Bodily Knowledge, Design Practices, and Living Archives in Hybrid Spaces
Network for Architectural Studies e. V. in cooperation with the Faculty of Architecture and Design and the XR+LAB at the Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences
Dominik Mohs and Philipp Reinfeld
Program
9:00 Nicole Wendel (drawing and performance), Jan Burkhardt (Center for Contemporary Dance, Cologne University of Music and Dance), and Hendrik Wiese (Institute for Design and Representation, Leibniz University Hannover), Activation of the Kinesphere
9:30 Dominik Mohs and Philipp Reinfeld, Welcome and Introduction
9:45 Elizabeth Sikiaridi (Hybrid Space Lab) and Frans Vogelaar (Hybrid Space Lab), Hybrid Space
10:30 Lara Lesmes and Fredrik Hellberg (Space Popular / University of Applied Arts Vienna), “Tele-Mediated Territories: The Metropolitan Pastoral and its Discontents”
11:15 Nicholas Masterton (Forensic Architecture, Goldsmiths, University of London), “Examining Violence and Labor: Technical Threads Through the Digital Media Complex”
12:00 Uwe Rieger and Yinan Liu (arc/sec Lab, School of Architecture and Planning, University of Auckland), Living Hybrids: Cyber-Physical Architecture and Embodied Intelligence
12:45 Marcel Moonen (Super Abstraction / PEP – Design-Based Doctoral Program, TU Berlin), Hybrid Artefacts – Transformation of Abstract Drawings into Generative Architecture
14:00 Jan Philipp Drude (Department of Experimental and Digital Design and Construction, University of Kassel), “Sculpting Bodies: Carving Architectural Volumes”
14:45 Tolgahan Gücüyeter, Kevin Michael and Miklos Spina (raumschrott.xyz / HFT Stuttgart), “Interfaces of Access: Collaborative Design across Shifting Boundaries”
15:30 Annette Urban and Manischa Partowi (Institute of Art History, Ruhr University Bochum) and Manuel van der Veen (Institute of Art History, University of Stuttgart) Joint presentation as part of the subproject “Virtual Art,” SFB 1567, “Virtual Living Worlds”, Documenting VR. Discussion of a Living Catalog.
16:30 Lasse Scherffig (Interaction Design, Cologne International School of Design, Cologne University of Applied Sciences), Marco Hemmerling (Computational Design in Architecture, Institute of Design, Cologne University of Applied Sciences), Jens Fehrenbacher (Media and Cultural Studies, Cologne International School of Design, Cologne University of Applied Sciences) and Ben Drusinsky (Architecture and Computational Design, Cologne International School of Design / Code & Context, Cologne University of Applied Sciences), Joint presentation as part of the DFG Research Initiative “Cultural Memory in Crisis,” Research Unit III “Digital Cultural Memory,” Multiplied Memory Architectures
17:30 Discussion
9:00 Dominik Mohs and Philipp Reinfeld, Welcome and Introduction to Day 2
9:15 Einav Katan-Schmid (independent researcher, dancer, and dramaturg), “Translating Affect: Movement Across Sketch, Archive, Virtual Space, and AI”
10:15 Anton Koch (Mainz University of Applied Sciences / Motion Bank), “Topologies of Distance: Thinking Transdisciplinarity Through Epistemic Oscillation”
11:00 Moritz Queisner (Experimental Surgery / Digital Surgery Lab, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin), TBA
11:45 Elaine Bonavia (PEP – Design-Based Doctoral Program, TU Berlin / Spatial Drawing), SPATIAL DRAWING: Thinking with Materials through Movement
13:30 Hannah Groninger (Chair of Art and Design, RWTH Aachen) and Silvana Suárez Cedeño (choreographer and dancer), with Franka Roussel (animation) and Anton Groninger (sound), Hy Mi MO’s (Hybrid Minimal Movements)
14:30 Niklas Fabian Becker (Bauhaus University Weimar), “Physical Experimentation” in XR. Post-phenomenological & media-theoretical perspectives
15:15 Riccarda Cappeller (Chair of Territorial Design and Urban Planning, Leibniz University Hannover), “Observe. Assemble. Explore.” – Essayistic Film Fragments – Cooperative Architecture
16:00 Norbert Pape (Dance, Choreography, and Mathematics), Turbulence – On GPUs, Simulation, and Felt-Sense in Hybrid Spaces
17:00 Closing Remarks and Farewell
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