Newsletter June 2022

Conflict
Space

Workshop
Conflict Space
ISEA 2022 Symposium “Possibilities”
Heritage and Futures
14.30-18.00, 12 June 2022
Lecture
16.50-17.20, 14 June 2022

@ Centre de Cultura Contemporània
Barcelona

Crises occur in and unfold spaces, and Hybrid Space Lab’s work deals with unresolved historical wounds and how they’re reflected in controversial, conflictual monuments, with an ongoing commitment to engendering dialogues aimed at history’s collective processing and memory-making.

Conflict Space workshop and lecture at the International Symposium on Electronic Art ISEA2022 “Possibilities – Heritage and Futures” of the International at Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona:

Hybrid
Face

Presentation and Discussion
Merlijn Schoonenboom, cultural historian and journalist
18.00-21.00, 13 October 2022

@ INbetweenSTITUTE 2.0
Hybrid Space Lab
Berlin

The ongoing interloping crises and layered spaces of conflict are riddled with questions of identity and identity claims. As our identities are continuously negotiated on, and shaped by our digital as much as physical presence, what does it mean to navigate contemporary societies with increasingly hybrid identities – and increasingly hybrid faces?

* Why has the face become so important in contemporary – digitally networked – society?

* And how does this focus change the way we use our face in our daily lives?

Addressing a cultural-historical analysis of the face in the Digital Age, Merlijn Schoonenboom presents his upcoming book “The Face. A Cultural History from Veil to Selfie”.

Hybrid

Publication
Hybrid
Elizabeth Sikiaridi, Frans Vogelaar
19 August 2022

@ tanz
Germany

And, beyond the face, how are our hybrid identities on the move – apart from and towards one another – both physically and digitally? As the way we communicate and connect is being radically redefined by digitalization, we need to reckon with the consequences and potential of hybrid – and possibly, more-than-human – bodily intuition unfolding into previously unthought-of hybrid dances and movement.

* How do our hybrid bodies navigate the merging of digital and physical spaces?

* What are the consequences of hybridization for performance, performers and audiences?

These questions are addressed in the opening article of the upcoming “Jahrbuch” (“Yearbook) of the magazine “tanz. europäische zeitschrift für ballett, tanz und performance” (“tanz. european journal for ballet, dance and performance”).

circulariCITY

Workshops, Field Labs
Circular City
October 2022 – June 2024

@ Berlin, Amsterdam

 

Ideation Workshop
CITIES IN THE LOOP: Re-coding the Circular City
11.00 – 13.00, 1 July 2022

@ Hybrid Space Lab

The notion of a Circular City has become a main concept for sustainable zero-waste urban futures.
However, if one looks closer, the circle expands in multiple ripples and loops, revealing the sheer complexity that envisioning – let alone developing – circular cities entail.

Hybrid Space Lab is curating the circulariCITY program, and hosting its launch with Ideation Workshop CITIES IN THE LOOP: Re-coding the Circular City, to be followed by lectures in Berlin and Amsterdam and workshops.

Club
Futures

Exchange, Ideation, Research, Prototyping Workshops
20222023

@ Hybrid Space Lab
Berlin

 

Workshop, Panels, Party
20 October 2022

@ Amsterdam Dance Event
Amsterdam

Club Futures is an international laboratory with the aim of developing new perspectives for the club and cultural scene.

It is undeniable that club-going is a significant cultural practice of our time and Berlin has earned a reputation as a pioneer of related experiments and developments.

A group of visionaries and networkers is initiating an ideation and concept development project, inviting the clubbing and cultural scene to participate. In addition to developing innovative ideas and concepts, the program aims to initiate collaborations between clubs, cultural professionals, the creative and tech industries, as well as science and art, in order to foster sustainable and inclusive clubbing practices. Representatives from the Berlin and international clubbing scene meet with experts, visionaries, and creatives from various fields in a series of workshops and events.

The program addresses the multifaceted dimensions of club culture and examines the future of clubs as spatial-architectural venues, as cultural producers, and as service providers.

Hybrid
Space
Lab

Hybrid Space is the fusion of Physical Space and Digital Space.

Hybrid Space is the Ambivalent Space that is at the same time analog and digital, material and virtual, biological and technicological, local and global, tactile and abstract.

Hybrid Space Lab is a Think Tank and a Design Lab for Architecture, Urbanism, Design and Digital Culture.