Creativity represents the competitive advantage: while machines excel at making predictions based on what exists, humans possess the creative power to imagine.
hAIbrid @ Berlin, 28 May 2026
#Future Lab
Projects
weCARElab
weCARElab imagines tech, digital and hybrid solutions with spatial, social and cultural aspects of health care and prevention to build 5‑minute communities.
weCARElab @ Global, 2025~2030
Keynote & Panel weCARElab @ FUTUROMUNDO Foresight, Future Urban Economies Forum, Stuttgart, Germany, 3 Juli 2025
Workshop weCARElab @ FUTUROMUNDO, Fraunhofer AIO, Stuttgart, Germany 4 Juli 2025
BETWEENstitute
BETWEENstitute develops hybrid models and future visions for Berlin’s cultural media networks; for transmediale and CTM, using hAIbrid for AI‑driven ideation.
Workshop SPIEL lab @ Hybrid Space Lab, Berlin, 10.00-13.00, 28 January 2025
Roundtable Discussion BETWEENstitute @ transmediale, Kuppelhalle silent green, Berlin, 16.00-17.30, 30 January 2025
Workshops BETWEENstitute @ Hybrid Space Lab, Berlin, 15 March-15 July 2025
Cool Cities
Urban climate adaptation, Sponge City, green corridors and building greening helps Athens become resilient, improves life quality and boosts biodiversity.
Consultancy Cool Down Cities @ Municipality of Athens, Deputy Mayor of Athens for Climate Governance and Social Economy Nikos Chrysogelos, Athens 25 August 2024
KOSMOS
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
Creative & Tech Festival Berlin
Hybrid Space Lab’s innovative concepts were integrated as ecommendations in the Creative Tech Festival Berlin’s White Paper, shaping future cultural strategies.
Concept Hybrid & Crossover @ White Paper Creative Festival Berlin, 12 June 2023
coSPECIESlab
Ecological transition demands a paradigm shift: integrating diverse knowledges, including those shaping the Global South yet dismissed in the Global North.
Labs & Fests @ Glocal, 2023~2026
festCITY
festCITY embeds festival-making into the city via a process-oriented think-tank, merging Berlin’s (bio)diversity with crossovers from culture and tech.
Lecture FESTcity, Town Hall Meeting #1 @ betahaus, Berlin, 22 March 2023
Next Stop Culture
Next Stop Culture explores unused mobility spaces in Berlin, developing new cultural space concepts and typologies for a culture-powered sustainable urban development.
Workshop Co-Hosted by Clubcommission Berlin @ transmediale & CTM Festival, Re:mise, Köpenicker Strasse 18, 10997 Berlin, 25 January 2023
Animal Club
Animal Club connects ecology, art, philosophy, and club culture to generate new concepts and business models for a sustainable and biodiverse future of clubbing.
Presentation, Workshop, Panel & Party Animal Club, Co-Hosted by VibeLab @ Amsterdam Dance Event, SEXYLAND World, 1 Noordwal, 1021 PX Amsterdam, 20 October 2022
circulariCITY
Circular cities dominate sustainable urban futures—yet a closer look reveals ripples and loops of complexity that envisioning, let alone developing, such cities truly entails.
Presentation & Workshop Cities in the Loop: Re-coding the Circular City @ Hybrid Space Lab, Berlin, 1 July 2022
Presentation & Workshop zirkularKIEZ @ Bits & Bäume 2022 Conference for Digitization and Sustainability, Technical University Berlin, 2 October 2022
hybrid
For tanz Yearbook 2022, we wrote the lead article “hybrid,” exploring the body in space amid the fusion of physical and digital realms.
Publication @ tanz Yearbook 2022, Germany, 15 August 2022
Convers(at)ions
Convers(at)ions creatively engages with border phenomenology and performativity, transforming military demarcations through a more‑than‑human view and activating nature’s potential.
Research, Lectures & Discussions @ Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) & European Green Belt (EGB), Berlin & Seoul, October 2019~2023
INbetweenSTITUTE
The future of culture is hybrid. Cultural innovation lies in the cross-pollination between different fields, approaches and expertise.
Lectures, Presentations, Discussions & Cooking @ Hybrid Space Lab, Berlin, 2021~2023
Presentation & , Discussion Marleen Stikker, founder and director Waag Future Lab for Design and Technology @ Hybrid Space Lab, Berlin, 18.00-20.00, 30 November 2021
Presentation & Discussion Hybrid Face, Merlijn Schoonenboom, cultural historian and journalist @ Hybrid Space Lab, Berlin, 18.00-21.00, 19 May 2023
Cooking & Sound, The Common Meal, FM Einheit, musician, sound researcher, actor, composer, producer and founding member Einstürzende Neubauten, LI Zhenhua, master chef, curator, poet, filmmaker and artist, Prof. Dr. Siegfried Zielinski, media archaeologist, writer and curator @ Hybrid Space Lab, Berlin, February 2023
Future Cultural Space
For the German Federal Cultural Fund Hybrid Space Lab developed a workshop Future Cultural Space on the hybrid future of culture.
Hybrid Workshop “The Future is not Digital. Hybrid is the Future!” @ Kulturstiftung des Bundes, HoloLab – dive in Program for Digital Interaction, Halle an der Saale, Germany 14 October 2021
Hybrid Spaces
Hybrid Spaces explores future social and cultural spaces by linking physical environments with digital networks, highlighting their hybrid qualities.
Publication Hybrid Space @ @ Regeneration [and its Discontents], Lithuanian Architectural Foundation, Vilnius, Lithuania, 4 June 2021
Co-Creating Hybrid Culture
We developed Co‑Creating Hybrid Culture for the German Federal Cultural Foundation, augmenting cultural practices through digital spaces and co‑creative events.
Keynote Future Cultural Space @ Kulturstiftung des Bundes, HoloLab – dive in Program for Digital Interaction, Halle an der Saale, Germany, 16.00 – 17.00, 22 September 2021
Research & Concept @ German Federal Cultural Foundation, Halle an der Saale, Germany, 2021
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
Resignify City
Focusing on the cityscape and silenced voices, and fostering memory‑making through innovative, participatory methods that avoid physical intervention.
Lectures & Workshop Resignify City @ Media Architecture Biennale 2021, Amsterdam, Utrecht, The Netherlands, 24 June 2021
Club Futures
Club Futures is an international laboratory with the aim of developing new perspectives for the club and cultural scene.
Exchange, Ideation, Research, Panels, Parties, Prototyping, Workshops @ Club Futures, Hybrid Space Lab, Berlin & Amsterdam, 2022~2023
reBOOT Culture
reBOOT Culture explores collective cultural experiences rooted in urban space, merging public physical with digital space to create shared cultural engagement.
Concerts, Jam-sessions, Performances, Screenings & Narrow- and Broadcasts @ Instrument Inventors, Royal Academy of Art & Royal Conservatoire the Hague, Sonic Acts, V2 Lab for Unstable Media, Waag technology & society, The Netherlands, 2020-2021
(Re)Venue
As museums face a 1.5‑metre‑apart reality, offering meaningful visitor experiences while sustaining financial viability has become one of the urgent challenges.
Research & Ideation @ Hybrid Space Lab, Berlin, 2020
Hybrid Staging
With physical distancing, the COVID‑19 pandemic disrupts public space as we know it, creating an urgent need to rethink cultural space and forms of engagement.
Research, Lectures & Workshops @ Cultural Institutions, Germany, 2020-2021
Keynote Hybrid Space @ Culture @ Kulturstiftung des Bundes, HoloLab – dive in Program for Digital Interaction, Halle an der Saale, Germany, 16.00 – 17.00, 22 September 2021
Hybrid Workshop The Future is not Digital. Hybrid is the Future! @ Kulturstiftung des Bundes, HoloLab – dive in Program for Digital Interaction, 13.30–18.00, 14 October 2021
Workshop Hybrid Platforms @ Next Level Festival for Games, Kokskohlenbunker, Zeche Zollverein, Essen, Germany, 14.00–16.30, 14 November 2020
Networked City
What is the relationship between city visions and urban concepts from the past and today’s Smart City narratives?
Lectures & Discussion Visions, Concepts and Narratives for the Networked City @ Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, Berlin, 20 February 2020
Kiez Lab
Kiez Lab is a hybrid low‑threshold neighbourhood lab with co‑creative formats that embed local and civic experience into Berlin’s digital transformation.
Publications, Presentation, Lectures & Workshops @ Alliance Digital City Berlin, Marlowes Online Magazin for Architectur and City, Berlin Science Week, Mein Berlin,Utopolis Federal Association for Social Culture, Academy for Media Arts, Berlin Cologne, Stuttgart, 2019-2022
Tools for Heritage
Linking arts, technology, memory studies and science, Deep Space opens layered meanings of Valle de los Caídos and imagines futures after Franco’s exhumation.
Exhibition, Lecture & Discussion 5 June 2019 @ Goethe Institut, Madrid, 5 June 2019
City Making in the Digital Age
Digitalization transforms our cities, with far-reaching efforts towards technology-powered increased efficiency, sustainability and at times participation.
Lectures & Discussion City Making in the Digital Age @ Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, Berlin, 21 February 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
Hybrid Biotope
Hybrid Biotope, a co-working camp at the Raketenstation Hombroich in spring 2019, explores the merging of nature, artefact and artificial and organic life.
Research & Concept @ Rocket Station Hombroich, Germany, 1 April 2018
News
hAIbrid @ AI Coalition 4 NL
Generative AI is rapidly changing the creative disciplines: boundaries between disciplines are blurring.
hAIbrid @ AI Coalition 4 NL, Amsterdam, 5 February 2026
Hybrid Culture @ Marlowes Architecture Magazine
Hybrid Space Lab initiated research and ideation programs to reimagine cultural spaces in context of the digital together with international partners.
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 Future Lab, transmediale, CTM Festival, Vibelab, Clubcommision Berlin, Kulturstiftung des Bundes, Amsterdam Dance Event & SEXYLAND World, 2020-2025
Publication @ Marlowes Architecture Magazine, Germany, 30 May 2025
weCARElab @ FUTUROMUNDO
Urbanization continues to increase worldwide and cities play a decisive role in the climate transformation, business models and industries will have to evolve.
Keynote & Panel weCARElab @ FUTUROMUNDO Foresight, Future Urban Economies Forum, Stuttgart, Germany, 3 July 2025
Humboldt Futures @ Atlas der Datenkörper
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
Poly Garden City @ SHEDIA Magazine
Playgrounds, gardens and sports areas show how rooftops can form an elevated city, offering environmental benefits and new spaces for social interaction.
Interview @ SHEDIA magazine 111, Athens, May 2023
ANIMALfest @ Creative Tech Festival Berlin
The Berlin Government is establishing a creative and tech festival in Berlin in order to increase the city’s international appeal.
Public Presentation & Discussion ANIMALfest @ THFxIMPULSE Event, Flughafen Tempelhof, Berlin, 31 May 2023
Startup Energy Transition @ Berlin Energy Transition Dialogue 2023
SET Festival 2023 unites global energy innovators. Hybrid Space Lab shaped the panel “Building a Sustainable Future” on offsetting emissions in smart cities.
Panel Moderation & Lecture Building a Sustainable Future: Offsetting Emissions in Smart Cities @ Startup Energy Transition Festival 2023, Berlin, 28 March 2023
Participation @ Berlin Energy Transition Dialogue 2023, German Federal Foreign Office, Berlin, 29 March 2023
festCITY @ Creative Tech Festival Berlin
festCITY consists of a radical, situated approach to embed festival and cultural events into the city of Berlin and New York County.
Lecture #1 Town Hall Meeting @ betahaus, Berlin, 22 March 2023
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
eCommemoration Convention 2022 @ Körber Stiftung
Hybrid Space Lab is participating in the eCommemoration Convention 2022 at the Körber Stiftung.
Participation @ eCommemoration Convention 2022, Körber Stiftung, 29- 30 September 2022
Hybrid Space Lab @ European Institute of Innovation and Technology
Hybrid Space Lab is participating INNOVEIT Berlin which brings together experts and entrepreneurs bringing the New European Bauhaus to life through innovation, creativity and design.
Participation INNOVEIT Berlin @ European Institute of Innovation and Technology, EIT Climate-KIC, Berlin, 23 September 2022
hybrid @ tanz
Hybrid Space Lab wrote the lead article “hybrid” for tanz Yearbook 2022, focusing on body and space within the interplay of the physical and the digital.
Publication hybrid @ tanz, Germany, 19 August 2022
circulariCITY @ Bits und Bäume 2022 Conference
Presentation and workshop by Hybrid Space Lab of circulariCITY at the Bits & Bäume 2022 Conference.
Presentation & Workshop circulariCITY @ Bits & Bäume 2022 Conference for Digitization and Sustainability, Technical University Berlin, 1 October 2022
Post COVID-19 City @ Academy of Media Arts
Publication Post COVID-19 City by Elizabeth Sikiaridi & Frans Vogelaar for Magazine #0 of the Academy of Media Arts.
Article Post COVID-19 City @ Academy of Media Arts, Cologne, Germany, 27 July 2022
Hybrid Space @ Digital Leaders in Architecture
Hybrid Space is the focus of the new edition of Digital Leaders in Architecture, a platform providing innovative food for thought for architects.
Interview & Lecture Hybrid Space @ Digital Leaders in Architecture, Schüco International KG, Berlin, 1 July 2022
Hybrid Space Lab @ Smart Cities International Roundtable
Amsterdam Smart City is working together with Future City Foundation which is leading the realization of national (the Netherlands) City Deal.
Discussion Smart Cities International Roundtable @ Amsterdam Smart Cit, Amsterdam, 7 June 2022
Hybrid Space Lab @ Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society Conference 2022
The Weizenbaum Institute hosts the 2022 conference “Practicing Sovereignty”, with Hybrid Space Lab contributing a lecture on Kiez Lab.
Lecture @ Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society, Annual Conference Practicing Sovereignty, Berlin, 9-10 June 2022
Conflict Space @ ISEA 2022
The lecture and workshop Conflict Space takes place at ISEA 2022 “Possibilities” at the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona.
Lecture & Workshop Conflict Space @ ISEA 2022 Symposium “Possibilities”, Heritage and Futures @ Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona, 12 June 2022 & 14 June 2022
ReWild Autobahn @ bauhaus reuse BHROX
Hybrid Space Lab curates a lecture and workshop on multispecies mobility at BHROX bauhaus reuse within the Von A to B Fieldtrip linking Amsterdam and Berlin.
Lecture & Workshop @ BHROX bauhaus reuse, Berlin, 10.00-11.30, 9 February 2022
Hybrid Space @ The Future Now Show
Hybrid Space Lab lectures on Hybrid Space at The Future Now Show of the Club of Amsterdam.
Lecture @ Club of Amsterdam, The Future Now Show, Basel, Switserland, 1 February 2022
Smart City Expert Workshop @ City Lab Berlin
Hybrid Space Lab project Kiez Lab contributes to the Smart City Expert Workshop fostering the co-creative process shaping Berlin’s Smart City strategy.
Workshop Smart City Expert @ Berlin Senate Chancellery and CityLAB Berlin, 7 January 2022
reWild Autobahn @ Smart City Berlin
ReWild Autobahn is presented at Smart City Berlin „Von A nach B” – Amsterdam meets Berlin.
Presentation, ReWild Autobahn @ Smart City Berlin „Von A nach B” – Amsterdam meets Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 9 December 2021
Marleen Stikker @ INbetweenSTITUTE
Marleen Stikker, founder of Waag is presenting Future Lab at Hybrid Space Lab.
Lecture & Discussion, Marleen Stikker, Founder and Director, Waag Future Lab for design and technology @ Hybrid Space Lab, Berlin, Germany, 30 November 2021
reWild Autobahn @ BauNetz
Baunetz showcases ReWild Autobahn as part of the Berlin Atlas.
Publication ReWild Autobahn @ BauNetz, Berlin Atlas, Berlin, 19 November 2021
Hybrid is the Future! @ Kulturstiftung des Bundes
Workshop Hybrid is the Future!, the digital cultural innovation program at “New Forms of Participation and Interaction” by German Federal Cultural Foundation.
Hybrid Workshop The Future is not Digital. Hybrid is the Future! @ Kulturstiftung des Bundes, HoloLab – dive in Program for Digital Interaction, Berlin, 14 October 2021
Hybrid Space @ Kulturstiftung des Bundes
Hybrid Space Lab delivers the “Hybrid Space” keynote at Culture at DIVE IN, the digital cultural innovation program of the German Federal Cultural Foundation.
Keynote Hybrid Space @ Bundeskulturstiftung, dive in “new forms of artistic production”, Halle an der Saale, Germany, 22 September 2021
Kiez Lab @ Utopolis
Socioculture must link diverse publics with local realities, using hybrid formats and neighborhood interfaces to reach varied groups meaningfully.
Lecture & Workshop Kiez Lab @ Utopolis German Federal Association for Socioculture, Digital Socioculture in the Neighborhood, Germany, 16 September 2021
Hybrid Space @ China University of Geo Sciences
With the rapid development and application of the discipline of human ergonomics, the number of people engaged in teaching and scientific research in the field of design ergonomics in China has been increasing.
Lecture Hybrid Space @ 2020 International Symposium on Design Ergonomics, Future · Awareness · Inclusion, China University of Geo Sciences, Wuhan, China, 29 December 2020
Deep Space @ archithese
Hybrid Space Lab analyzed “Valley of the Fallen” near Madrid – the pompous tomb for the fascist dictator Francisco Franco.
Publication Informing instead of glorifying, Jørg Himmelreich, @ archithese, Switserland, 28 November 2020
Kiez Lab @ Berlin Science Week
Kiez Lab looks at Berlin’s digital future through the eyes of city dwellers and residents, exploring new ways to align digital objectives with citizens’ needs.
Lecture & Workshop Kiez Lab @ Berlin Science Week, Participation in the Digital City, Berlin, 3 November 2020
Inclusive Democratic Digital @ Digital City Alliance Berlin
Workshop by the Digital City Alliance Berlin on COVID‑19 lessons, reflecting on spring 2020 to shape a democratic and inclusive digitization policy for Berlin.
Workshop Kiez Lab @ Bündnis digitale Stadt Berlin, 6 May 2020
Bricks & Bits @ Lithuanian Radio
Interview by Rūta Leitanaitė on Lithuanian Radio on how physical and digital city interact and how integrated development can make cities fair and attractive.
Interview City of Bricks and Bits, Rūta Leitanaitė @ Lithuanian Radio, “Need an Architect”, Lithuania, 2 April 2020
Future Heritage @ DASA Museum
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
Experimental Space @ Weizenbaum Institute
What should spaces be like in which experiments with digital technologies are made, experienced and further developed?
Open Lab @ Weizenbaum Institute, Berlin, 16 January 2020
Digital Strategy @ Digital City Alliance Berlin
More than thirty organisations and individuals from science and civil society sign the statement of the Digital City Alliance of Berlin.
Declaration @ Bündnis digitale Stadt Berlin, 11 December 2019
Surveillance Capitalism & Cognitive Architecture @Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society
Surveillance Capitalism is becoming an established notion with a number of meanings around the commodification of personal information and Berlin lecture the social psychologist Shoshana Zuboff on 6 November 2019, organised by our partner Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society
Lecture Surveillance Capitalism, Professor Shoshana Zuboff @ Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, Berlin, 6 November 2019
Kiez Lab @ Alliance Digital City Berlin
Kiez Lab supports the challenges of digital transformation that are becoming more and more tangible in the daily lives of Berliners.
Workshop Kiez Lab @ Bündnis Digitale Stadt Berlin, Germany, 2019~2020
Interview Future Heritage @ DASA Dortmund
Interview Future Heritage at DASA Dortmund Future Scenography Conference.
Lecture & Interview Future Heritage @ DASA, Dortmund, Germany, 23-24 January 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
Digital Fabrication @ Aedes Metropolitan Laboratory
Craftsmanship in the Digital Age joins makers, digital tool advocates, architects, and industry leaders to shape how digital fabrication enters architecture.
Lecture Prof. Dr. Richard Sennett, Centennial Professor of Sociology, London School of Economics @ ANCB The Aedes Metropolitan Laboratory, Berlin, 18 December 2017
Roundtable Discussion @ ANCB, The Aedes Metropolitan Laboratory, Berlin , 18 December 2017
NatureTecture @ MediaLab CAFA Beijing
NatureTecture explores how architecture merges with green structures as advances in nature, biotech, and tech drive the rise of hybrid architecture.
Lecture NatureTecture @ Media Lab, Central Academy of Fine Arts, No.8 Hua Jia Di Nan Street, Chao Yang District, Beijing, P.R. China, 27 November 2017
Smart & the City @ Xi’an Art Museum
The New Silk Road reimagines cities along the East‑West route, offering a platform for dialogue and shared challenges creating spaces for cross‑imagination.
Exhibition The 4 Session of the Silk Road International Art Festival @ Xi’an Art Museum, Xi’an, Shaanxi, P.R. China, 16 September-3 October 2017
CLASH @ Xian Art Museum
CLASH refers to the clash of the encountering systems and functions as a social tool for bargaining, exchange and cross-fertilization.
Exhibition CLASH @ Xi’an Art Museum, Xi’an, Shaanxi, P.R. China, 16 September-3 October 2017
Forum @ Xi’an Art Museum, Xi’an, Shaanxi, P.R. China, 10 September 2017
Flexible Infrastructure @ Berlin Governance Platform
What are the social, economic, participatory, urban-architectural and technical concepts that Berlin as a Smart City really needs?
Workshop Intelligent City Flexible Infrastructures for Smart City Development @ TU Berlin, HUMBOLDT-VIADRINA Governance Platform, Berlin, 21 November 2016
FuTourism @ ARTez
New forms of tourism are emerging such as Medical Tourism, Slow Tourism, Disaster Tourism, Slum Tourism, Culinary Tourism.
Lecture & Workshop FuTourism & Circular City @ ARTez, Arnhem, the Netherlands, 10 November 2016
Hybrid Culture @ Kulturinvest Conference
Digital networks transform cultural institutions by enabling hybridization that fuses artistic practices and merges creators and consumers through co‑creation.
Keynote @ Tagesspiegel, Kulturinvest Conference, Digital Strategies & Social Media, Berlin, 4 November 2016
Ethics of Technology @ Beijing Media Art Biennale
Our current geological age is being described as “anthropocene”, as the epoch during which human activity is the dominant influence on climate and environment.
Exhibition NatureTecture @ Beijing Media Art Biennale, China Millennium Monument, Beijing, 24 September – 30 October 2016
Lecture & Workshop NatureTecture @ Beijing Design Week 2016, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, 30 September 2016
INbetweenSTITUTE @ Urban China Magazine
798 and the Creative Cluster Conundrum is an ambitious project shaping the next phase of Beijing’s 798 Art District and is presented during Beijing Design Week.
Workshop & Presentation INbetweenSTITUTE @ Urban China Magazine, Beijing, 26 – 27 September 2016
Refugees Futures @ DMY Festival 2016
Given the global masses of displaced people, the design community faces the task of helping refugees and supporting those who stay to build liveable lives.
Discussion Think Local Act Local! @ DMY Festival 2016, Kraftwerk, Berlin, 2 June 2016
Culture of Sustainability @ Station Berlin
Can foreign cultural policy internationally promote sustainable concepts and processes?
How to communicate the complex issues of sustainability to a broad international audience by using cultural means in a playful and attractive way?
How to convey sustainability in an international intercultural context?
Lecture & Workshop Menschen Bewegen 2016 @ Station Berlin, Foreign Cultural Policy, Berlin, 15 April 2016
B.A.N.G. @ Design Innovation Europe
Exponential technological acceleration and challenged by alarming ecologic and social changes design’s role shaping our increasingly hybrid world is changing.
Lecture & Discussion B.A.N.G. Design @ Design.Innovation.Europe., Embassy Kingdom of the Netherlands, Berlin, 30 November 2015
Hybrid Design @ Media Lab CAFA Beijing
Hybrid Design is a strategy that draws on diverse fields and processes that today’s design practice often views as incompatible.
Lecture Hybrid Design @ Media Lab, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, 27 September 2015
Hybrid Heritage @ Beijing Design Week 2015
Hybrid Heritage is researching and designing contemporary interpretations and further development of heritage under a multicultural perspective.
Exhibition Hybrid Heritage @ Beijing Design Week 2015, Baitasi ReMade, no. 4 West Gongmenkou Hutong, Xicheng District, Beijing, 25 September-7 October 2015
Lecture Hybrid Heritage @ Baitasi Info Hub, No. 313 Fuchengmen Inner Street, Xicheng District, Beijing, 26 September 2015
Workshop Hybrid Heritage @ Media Lab, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, 26-27 September
Hybrid Design @ IFA Summit
Hybrid Space Lab’s Prof. Frans Vogelaar delivers the Keynote “Hybrid Design” at the IFA in Berlin, the global trade show for consumer electronics
Keynote Hybrid Design & Discussion @ IFA+ Summit, CityCube, Berlin, 8 September 2015
Cities in Transition @ University of Amsterdam
Students of the University of Amsterdam explored European cities, visited local initiatives and interviewed City Makers. This summer we publish their articles and interviews weekly. Maarten Ketelaar is spending a semester in Berlin, Germany and interviewed Elizabeth Sikiaridi and Frans Vogelaar of Hybrid Space Lab.
Interview City Makers New Europe @ Cities in Transition, University of Amsterdam, 8 July 2015
Humboldt Jungle @ TAZ
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
New Civic @ Make City Berlin
Citizens take part in o-creation initiatives in the private and the public domains, and in the hybrid blur where the one can’t be separated from the other.
Lecture & Workshop Shaping the New Civic Smart City meets Creative City @ Make City, Berlin, 13 June 2015
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
Internet of Things & Medical @ Conference Medical Technology
As more objects connect online, the Internet permeates daily life, simplifying tasks, saving energy, and already shaping medical tech and household devices.
Discussion, Panel & Conference Medical Technology @ Meelogic Consulting, Berlin, 23 April 2015
Affect Space @ open!
Eric Kluitenberg dates Hybrid Space Lab’s concept to 1999, but Hybrid Space Lab began exploring physical–digital space and coined Hybrid Space already in 1988.
Publication Affect Space, Eric Kluitenberg @ open! Platform for Art, Culture & the Public Domain, Amsterdam, 10 March 2015
Shrinking Car City @ Archined
Internet of Things Conference: at the intersection of technology and the built environment.
Publication, Paul van den Bergh @ Archined, The Netherlands, 21 May 2014
Hybridnet @ V2 Institute for Unstable Media
The lecture Hybridnet & Industry 4.0 will be streamed from the Hannover Messe 2014 at Holland Smart City House in the TV studio Metropolitan Solutions.
Lecture @ Hannover Messe, Metropolitan Solutions Conference Berlin, 9 April 2014
Lecture @ Internet of Things Conference Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 9 April 2014
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
Future Urbanism @ Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design
As science and technology advance, life grows more complex; digital networks add a virtual layer that reshapes cities and links media and urban systems.
Interview Future Urbanism @ Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design, Moscow, Russian Federation, 15 december 2013
Seeds of the Future @ Triennale di Milano
Exhibition at the Triennale di Milano on the themes of mobility, of living and working imagining how new materials and ICT technologies will shape daily lives.
Exhibition Mobility Living Working @ Triennale di Milano, Milan, 9 October – 22 December 2013
CRISIS design @ Beijing Design Week 2013
A CRISIS Design lecture on 26 Sept 2013 at “Our air! Our responsibility!”, hosted by Interactive Beijing and CAFA.
Lecture Our Air! Our Responsibility! @ Beijing Design Week 2013, China Millennium Monument Museum of Digital Arts, Beijing, 26 September 2013
Hybrid Space Lab @ Refugium
Hybrid Space Lab’s work is exhibited at the Refugium: Berlin as a Design Principle exhibition at Tempelhof Flughafen Berlin.
Lecture & Exhibition @ DMY International Design Festival, Berlin Design Week 2013, Flughafen Tempelhof, Berlin, 5-9 June 2013
Dream Society @ Culture Station 284 Seoul
Hybrid Space Lab’s work is exhibited within the framework of the Dream Society exhibition at the Culture Station Seoul 284 from April 4th 2013 till May 26th 2013.
Exhibition Dream Society @ Culture Station 284, Seoul, South Korea, 4 April-26 May 2013
Hybrid City @ University of Sheffield School of Architecture
Lecture by Hybrid Space Lab on Hybrid City at the University of Sheffield School of Architecture is part of the SHarc + SUAS Guest Lecture Series 2013-14.
Lecture SHarc + SUAS Guest Lecture @ University of Sheffield School of Architecture, Sheffield, 13 March 2013
The Future of Germany @ Club of Amsterdam
Prof. Frans Vogelaar is invited to lecture on “The Future of Germany” at the Club of Amsterdam.
Lecture Future of Germany & Panel Discussion @ Club of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 19:00-21:00, 20 April 2021
Hybrid Space @ Media Cultural Sciences University Utrecht
Max Urai interviews Professor Frans Vogelaar, who is a professor for Hybrid Space at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne.
Interview by Max Urai @ BLIK #5.0, University Utrecht, Media and Cultural Sciences, Utrecht, The Netherlands, March 2012
Hybrid Prosumer @ Forbes
Forbes published article on Hybrid Space Lab’s workshop and lectures on Hybrid Design and 3D Printing at the Beijing Design Week 2011.
Publication Re: Thinking Innovation, Haydn Shaughnessy @ Forbes, USA, 16 October 2011
Hybrid Space @ Contemporary Art Center Torun
Discussing hybridization as a general approach and strategy and as a quality of urban spaces.
Lecture Hybrid Space @ Contemporary Art Center Znaki Czasu, Torun, Poland, 31 March 2011
Hybrid Habitat @ European Forum Alpbach
What about security in our globalized world? The yearning for more security in our increasingly complex world and innovative solutions for coping with it.
Trust and security are becoming increasingly important for people in our globalized world. Globalization does not only take place “outside”; our own personal environment is also being globalized, with our real surroundings being expanded by virtual Internet space.
Lecture Hybrid Habitat @ European Forum Alpbach, Technology Forum, Security in a Globalized World Alpbach, Austria, 25 August 2006
Communication Space @ ISEA 2004
The communicational paradigm—with its network‑cities, nodes, terminal architectures and urban branding—infiltrates architectural and urban discourse.
Lecture & Panel Architecture of Switching @ ISEA 2004, Helsinki, Finland, 19-22 August 2004
Idensity® of the Urbanite @ Cyber Art Congress Bilbao
To reinforce the significance of public space we have to deal with at least two “public”, the global and the local public.
Lecture Idensity ® of the Urbanite @ Cyber Art Congress, Bilbao, Spain, 23-30 April 2004
Idensity® @ Technoetic Arts
The world is changing and with it the cities.
The new possibilities of physical mobility in the industrial age have decisively influenced architecture and city planning.
The question now arises as to how much the present revolution of information and communication will have.
Lecture Technology & the City @ A2B International Architecture Symposium 02, Basel, Switserland, 24-25 January 2002
Mobility Immobility @ entourage
The conference A2B, initiative of architect Jacques Herzog,”We are building the future for you” was presented by prominent lecturers as designers of the future.
Publication Architecture in the Information Age, Francesca Ferguson @ entourage, Switzerland, January 2002
Information Technology and the Urban @ de Balie
Could hybrid (urban and media) environments function as generators (of trust) transforming planning to an event-communication (space) and entertainment zone?
Publication, Lecture & Discussion Science Friction @ de Orderverstoorders, de Balie, Amsterdam, 25 Januari 1999
Public Media Urban Interfaces @ Man Mass Media Conference
Man – Mass – Media, conference and exhibition organised by the Internationales Forum für Gestaltung in Ulm.
Exhibition & Lab @ Internationales Forum fur Gestaltung, Ulm, Germany, 20-22 September 1996
Media Babies on CHANEL no. 5 @ Architectural Association School of Architecture
Exhibition presents the project “Media Babies on CHANEL no.5:” the fusion of media, architecture and urbanism.
Exhibition & Publication Future Media Space @ Architectural Association, Architectural Association School of Architecture, 34-36 Bedford Square, London, 28-30 June 1990