#Diplomacy Lab

is a prototype for experimenting with future functions of diplomacy in the age of EUization, globalization, and digitalization.

Projects

Embassy Lab Grow Your Green City

Grow Your Green City promotes the idea of a climate‑conscious Smart City, exploring how digital and media technologies support urban climate adaptation.

Workshop Grow Your Green City @ Floriade Expo 2022, Almere, The Netherlands, 25 February 2021

Crossover Diplomacy

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

Embassy Lab Future Narratives and Immersive Experiences Symposium

Future Narratives and Immersive Experiences Symposium is part of the Dutch mission accompanying His Majesty King Willem-Alexander and Her Majesty Queen Máxima.

Lectures, Pitches & Dinner Future Narratives and Immersive Experiences Symposium @ Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF, Potsdam, Germany, 22 May 2019

Future Diplomacy Lab

Future Diplomacy Lab offers a space to explore how innovative digital solutions from diverse fields can shape new applications and futures for diplomacy.

Lectures & Workshop Future Diplomacy Lab @ Diplomacy Camp, Embassy Kingdom of the Netherlands, Brussels, 7 February 2019

Embassy Lab Water Conscious Fashion

Human settlements have always been dependent upon access to clean water and its relative scarcity – freshwater makes up only 2.5% of water available on earth.

Embassy Lab Water Conscious Fashion, @ Neonyt, Kraftwerk Berlin, 16 January 2019

Embassy Lab GRÜNtopia

Green spaces are essential for the quality of life, wellbeing, and health of urban populations.

Lectures & Discussions Embassy Lab GRÜNtopia @ Embassy of Kingdom of the Netherlands , Berlin, 22 June 2018
Keynote Renate Künast, Bündnis 90/Die Grünen @ Embassy of Kingdom of the Netherlands , Berlin, 22 June 2018

Digital Diplomacy

Disruptive innovations such as machine learning and big data analytics are changing governments, NGOs, media, businesses, and in some cases entire industries.

Lectures & Workshops Digital Diplomacy @ The Hague Digital Diplomacy Camp 2018 Un-Conference, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, The Hague, 2 February 2018

Hybrid Diplomacy

Hybrid Diplomacy designates the combining of traditional diplomacy and innovative diplomacy.

Lectures, Workshop & Discussions Are You A Hybrid Diplomat ? @ Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Directorate-General for European Cooperation (DGES) & Innovation Team DARE, The Haag, The Netherlands, 18 January 2018

Embassy Lab shareCONOMY

Sharing Economy is a key phenomenon in a rapidly changing world, reshaping life faster than societies and institutions can adapt.

Talks, Lectures, Discussions & Workshop Embassy Lab shareCONOMY @ Embassy Kingdom of the Netherlands, Berlin, 7 July 2017

Embassy Lab Co-Curating the City

An international interdisciplinary lab explores curating as co‑creating with the public and examines how the expert curator’s role is being transformed.

Lectures, Discussions & Workshops Embassy Lab Co-Creating the City @ Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Berlin, 14 October 2016
Ikarian-Cretan Dinner @ Hybrid Space Lab, Berlin, 18.00-23.00, 14 October 2016

Embassy Lab Future Diplomacy

Digital tools enable participatory networks across borders, as transnational webs act independently of traditional diplomatic channels in a globalized world.

Lectures, Discussions & Workshops Embassy Lab Future Diplomacy @ Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Berlin, 7 October 2016

Embassy Lab Global Challenges Smart Solutions

Innovative, creative and pragmatic Dutch approaches showcased technology solutions for global challenges at Hannover Messe 2014.

Television Program: Interviews, Lectures, Talks & Discussions @ Hannover Messe, Hannover, Germany, 7-10 April 2014
Urban Screening Smart & the City @ Hannover Opera, Hannover, Germany, 7-10 April 2014

Embassy Lab Circular Economy

Circular Economy spans technical and biological cycles, to keep materials and products at their highest utility and value throughout the up‑cycling process.

Research Embassy Lab Circular Economy @ Kingdom of The Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Hague, 18 March 2016

Embassy Lab Hybrid Health

Embassy Lab Hybrid Health develops innovative health solutions merging physical and digital realms, with applications embedded in daily living environments.

Lectures, Pitches & Workshop, Opening Edith Schippers, Minister of Health, Welfare and Sport, Kingdom of The Netherlands @ Medica, Dusseldorf, Germany, 17 November 2015

Embassy Lab Velo

Embassy Lab Velo advances sustainable, innovative cycling mobility and fosters knowledge exchange between the City of Amsterdam and the City of Berlin.

Bicycle Tour, Lectures & Discussions Embassy Lab Velo @ Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Berlin, 29 March 2015

Embassy Lab CRISISdesign

CRISISdesign innovates in and for situations of change and crisis for communities that need new infrastructures for daily life.

Lectures & Discussions Embassy Lab CRISIS design @ Metropolitan Solutions, CityCube, Berlin, 22 May 2015

Embassy Lab Smart City Governance

The complexity of urban systems demands involvement of different stakeholders at a very early stage, in order to identify the challenges and define objectives.

Public Lecture Program Embassy Lab Smart City Governance @ Metropolitan Solutions, CityCube, Berlin, 21 May 2015

Embassy Lab Mobility+

Embassy Lab Mobility+ investigates the synergies between Smart Mobility and the different systems of Smart City.

Public Lecture & Workshop Program Embassy Lab Mobility+ @ BMW Welt, Munich, 25 February 2015

Embassy Lab Co-Operative

Embassy Lab Co-Operative is a one-day program for the Berlin visit of the Dutch Minister of the Interior and Kingdom Relations, Ronald Plasterk, February 23rd 2015.

Discussions & Visits Embassy Lab Co-Operative @ Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations, Berlin, 23 February 2015

Embassy Lab

Embassy Lab is innovation program and prototype for experimenting with future functions of embassies in the age of EUization, globalization and digitalization.

Research, Workshops, Lectures & Symposiums Embassy Lab @ Embassy of the Kingdom of The Netherlands in Berlin & Kingdom of The Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Hague, 2014~2021

Embassy Lab HAPPY health

Happy Health explores the impact of Smart Cities and related concepts and technologies on wellbeing and the prevention of illness.

Workshop & Public Lecture Program Embassy Lab HAPPY health @ DMY 2014, Tempelhof Airport, Berlin, 29 May 2014

News

Hybrid Space Lab @ Progressive Governance Summit 2022

Hybrid Space Lab is participating in the Progressive Governance Summit 2022 by the Progressive Zentrum on progressive politics.

Participation Progressive Governance Summit 2022 @ Progressive Zentrum, Haus Ungarn, Berlin, 13 October, 2022

Crossover Diplomacy @ Public Diplomacy Magazine

Hybrid Space Lab uses creativity to foster collective memory‑making, enabling engagement with contentious sites and easing stasis and political reticence.

Publication 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

Water Consious Fashion @ Fraulein Magazine

Water Consious Fashion is an initiative by Hybrid Space Lab, in cooperation with the Neonyt Fair and the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Berlin.

Publication Neonyt Fair @ Fraulein Magazine, Germany, 15 January 2019

Riga Readings @ Advanced Social and Political Research Institute

Hybrid Diplomacy: How to integrate digital and creative innovation in diplomatic processes.
AR/VRxIoT+AI+? = Hybrid Space
The combination of physical and media space, of local place and digital networks, is coined Hybrid Space. Space today is transformed by technologies such as Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR) or Mixed Reality, becoming increasingly hybrid.

Lecture The Transformation of Diplomacy: Digitalization and Innovation @ Advanced Social and Political Research Institute, Riga Readings in Social Sciences, University of Latvia, Riga, 22-23 November 2018

Embassy Lab GRÜNtopia @ Tagesspiegel

Anna Yudina joined international experts at the Embassy Lab GREEN TOPIA at the Dutch Embassy, curated by Hybrid Space Lab, as part of the MakeCity festival.

Publication, Sabine Holper @ Der Tagesspiegel, Berlin, 23 June 2018

Renate Künast @ Embassy Lab GRÜNtopia

We are honored that Renate Künast, politician for the Greens and Member of the German Parliament, is opening the Embassy Lab GRÜNtopia.

Lectures & Discussion, Embassy Lab GRÜNtopia, Keynote Renate Künast @ Embassy of Kingdom of the Netherlands, Berlin, 22 June 2018

Urban Lab @ Metropolitan Solutions

The Dutch Urban Lab the Dutch Embassy Berlin showcases in cooperation with Hybrid Space Lab and the City of Amsterdam the “Dutch Approach” on urban challenges.

Public Program Metropolitan Solutions Smart City Governance @ Dutch Urban Lab, CityCube, Berlin, 21 May 2015
Public Program Crisis Design @ Dutch Urban Lab, CityCube, Berlin, 22 May 2015

Smart & the City @ Metropolitan Solutions

Hybrid Space Lab’s animation “Smart & the City” brings the Smart Cities theme from Metropolitan Solutions at Hannover Messe to the public in a fresh way.

Urban Screening Energy City, Water City, Green City, Participatory City @ Opera, Hannover, 7-11 April 2014
Publication Smart & the City @ Hannoversche Allgemeine, Hannover, 9 April 2014