Newsletter September 2025

Chair Sabrina for Driade by Alessandro Mendini and Frans Vogelaar, 1982

The revolution of Italian design.

“Alchimia propagated a counter-reality, another vision for the world. It is a world full of cheerfulness, color, and aesthetics, that is intended to make clear that another reality is conceivable.”
Bröhan Museum

Studio Alchimia was a avant-garde group founded by Alessandro and Adriana Guerriero in Milan in 1976, bringing together the most important Italian designers and architects of the 1970s and 80s, including Alessando Mendini, Ettore Sottsass and Andrea Branzi.

Frans Vogelaar was part of Studio Alchimia in 1981-1982.

Newsletter Studio Alchimia @ Hybrid Space Lab, 10 September 2025

Alchimia

Alchimia is the first major retrospective exhibition of the Italian Radical Design movement at the Bröhan Museum in Berlin and at the ADI Design Museum in Milan.

Studio Alchimia revolutionized design worldwide.

Frans Vogelaar was part of the transdisciplinary Studio Alchimia from 1981 till 1982, designing together with the Italian architect and designer Alessandro Mendini the chair and two-seater Sabrina for the Italian furniture firm Driade.

Alchimia @ Bröhan Museum, Berlin, 17 April – 7 September 2025
Alchimia @ ADI Design Museum, Milan, 9 November 2025 – 15 Januari 2026

Chair and Two Seater Sabrina for Driade by Alessandro Mendini and Frans Vogelaar, 1982

Publication
Studio Alchimia
@ archithese

“In Florence in the 1970s, a group of architects and designers said, ‘Wait a minute, let’s take a look at what’s happening around us.’ That’s how Global Tools came about, which was extremely important. Without this project, Alchimia would not have existed. It all started with Global Tools,” explained Alessandro Guerriero, co-founder of Alchimia, in an interview with Hybrid Space Lab.

“Either we create spiritual objects, or it is better not to create anything at all!”

Article Studio Alchimia by Hybrid Space Lab @ archithese, Zurich, Switzerland, 8 September 2025

Studio Alchimia, Ollo Collection, Alchimia Museum, Milan, Exhibition, 1988
Photographer: Emilio Tremolada
Alessandro Mendini, Proust Chair, 1978

Interview
Alessandro Guerriero
Studio Alchimia

On June 23rd 2025, a very hot day, at the Fondazione Prada in Milan; Alessandro Guerriero was interviewed by Frans Vogelaar and Elizabeth Sikiaridi of Hybrid Space Lab.

Interview with Alessandro Guirreiro by Hybrid Space Lab @ Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy, 23 June 2025

Climate Adaptation Berlin @ BaumEntscheid

Hybrid Space Lab is developing the publicity concept and visual strategy in support of the climate adaptation law for Berlin “BäumePlus-Gesetz” that is developed by the Berlin NGO BaumEntscheid.

BaumEntscheid wants to make Berlin heat-proof and weather-proof by means of a referendum, so that life in Berlin remains bearable despite heat and extreme weather.

Article Studio Alchimia by Hybrid Space Lab @ archithese, Zurich, Switzerland, 8 September 2025

hAIbrid

hAIbrid is the open source Machine Learning Model that Hybrid Space Lab has developed for use in workshops, this MLM is based on our theoretical and visual projects.

Soft- and hardware breakthroughs in generative AI (gen AI) are transforming the way content can be created, but more importantly also the fundamental structure of economies and societies at large.

But current generation AI still falls short of human performance in areas such as creativity, reasoning, sensory perception, and other critical skills.

Concerts, Jam-sessions, Performances, Screenings & Narrow- and Broadcasts, Workshops & Lectures, @ Royal Academy of Art & Royal Conservatoire the Hague, Sonic Acts, V2 Lab for Unstable Media, Waag technology & society, transmediale, CTM Festival, Vibelab, Clubcommision Berlin, Kulturstiftung des Bundes, Amsterdam Dance Event & SEXYLAND World, 2020-2025

Publication Hybrid Culture @ Marlowes Architecture Magazine, Germany, 30 May 2025

weCARElab

Combining the best of tech innovations and digital and hybrid solutions with the spatial, social and cultural aspects of care and prevention, weCARElab encourages the development of innovative solutions.

Hybrid Care considers all different networks, those of the medical and nursing professionals as well as those of the laypeople caregivers and the community.
Hybrid Care is a constituent element in the development of future visions for our societies, cities, and regions.

weCARElab @ The Netherlands, 2025
Keynote & Panel weCARElab @ FUTUROMUNDO Foresight, Future Urban Economies Forum, Stuttgart, Germany, 3 Juli 2025

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.

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