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
#Hybrid Space
Hybrid Space focuses on methodologies to explore and develop in an integrated way the fusions of media space and physical place, these hybrid ambivalent spaces that are at the same time analog and digital, virtual and material, local and global, tactile and abstract.
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
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
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
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
Re-Charting Places
In our globalized world the accelerating speed of socio-political and cultural change collides with the longue-durée of heritage sites and territories.
Publication Re-Charting Places @ Contested Spaces – Concerted Projects: Designs for Vulnerable Memories, Lettera Ventidue Edizioni, Syracuse, Italy, April 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
Hybrid Platforms
Hybrid Platforms develops concepts and ideas for new cultural formats and is organized and curated by the NRW KULTURsekretariat and Hybrid Space Lab.
Workshop Hybrid Platforms @ Next Level Festival for Games & NRW KULTURsekretariat, Kokskohlenbunker, Zeche Zollverein, Essen, Germany, 14 November 2020
Green Artificial Intelligent Architecture
In the Anthropocene, the divide between nature and artifact fades, offering a chance for architecture—once rooted in nature—to merge as this polarity dissolves.
Architecture G AI A @ de Waag Technology & Society, Amsterdam, 2019-2020
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
Post COVID-19 City
During the COVID‑19 pandemic, digital tools expanded rapidly, and as digitization’s impacts became clearer, new possibilities for spatial organization emerged.
Publication Post COVID-19 City @ KHM #0 Magazine, Academy of Media Arts (KHM), Cologne, Germany, 1 July 2022
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
Climate City
Climate City explores how digital technologies contribute to addressing climate adaptation and develops strategies that take urban sustainability into account.
Lectures & Discussions Climate City @ Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, Berlin, 20 November 2019
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
Voiced Space
How to read territories through their historical ties to former colonies and contribute to shaping an inclusive, cultural heritage becomes a central question.
Lectures, Workshops & Conference International Research Program @ Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, 2019~2022
Lecture @ Media Architecture Biennial 2020, Amsterdam, 29 June-3 Juli 2020
Lecture & Workshop @ Media Architecture Biennial 2021, Amsterdam, 27 June-2 July 2021
City to Go
Classic transport modes are complemented by new digital, data‑driven mobility services, raising the question which user groups these emerging offers target.
Lectures & Discussion City to Go @ Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, Berlin, 15 July 2019
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
Hybrid Heritage
Voiced Space is conceptualized by Hybrid Space Lab for Nieuwe Instituut, the Dutch institute for Architecture, Design and Digital Culture.
Research @ Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, 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
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
City Making Lab
City Making Lab is a transdisciplinary lab on digitalization and the city developed by the Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society and Hybrid Space Lab.
Research, Lectures & Workshops City Making Lab @ Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, Berlin, 2019~2020
News
Hybrid Space @ [Hybrid]Forum Conference 2026
[Hybrid]Forum 12 explores how communication and knowledge processes in architecture evolve in rising digitality and virtuality, reshaping discourse.
Lecture by Prof. Elizabeth Sikiaridi & Prof. Frans Vogelaar @ [Hybrid]Forum Conference 2026, Stuttgart Germany, 27 – 28 November 2026
Studio Alchimia @ archithese
Hybrid Space Lab interviewed Alessandro Guerriero on the occasion of the first major retrospective Studio Alchimia at Berlin’s Bröhan Museum.
Article Studio Alchimia by Hybrid Space Lab @ archithese, Zurich, Switzerland, 8 September 2025
Deep Space @ Memory Symposium
Deep Space is presented at the Memorias Symposium, organised by Goethe‑Institut and Germany’s civic education agency, with support from the Spanish Government.
Lecture Deep Space @ Symposium Memorias, Goethe Institut, Madrid, Monday 26 – Wednesday 29 October 2025
Interview Alessandro Guerriero @ Studio Alchimia
On June 23rd 2025, at Fondazione Prada in Milan, Alessandro Guerriero was interviewed by Frans Vogelaar and Elizabeth Sikiaridi of Hybrid Space Lab.
Interview with Alessandro Guerriero by Hybrid Space Lab @ Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy, 23 June 2025
Convers(at)ions @ Korean Demilitarized Zone
The online symposium links Korean DMZ and European Green Belt stakeholders with experts in ecology, creative fields, culture, and conflict transformation.
Convers(at)ions online Symposium @ Korean Demilitarized Zone, Online, October 2025
Hybrid Care @ Stuttgarter Zeitung
Elizabeth Sikiaridi joins the event, embodying a transdisciplinary design approach where city, nature and the digital are conceived and developed together.
Elizabeth Sikiaridi @ Stuttgarter Zeitung , Germany, 13 March 2025
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
Custodians of the Past or Shapers of the Future? @ Humboldt Forum
Ten years on, as debates over the Humboldt Forum persist, Hybrid Space Lab’s provocative Humboldt Jungle proposal remains strikingly relevant.
Publication Humboldt Futures @ Atlas der Datenkörper 2, Transcript Verlag, Germany, 27 May 2024
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
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
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
Deep Space @ ARA
Publication by Sílvia Marimon Molas in the leading Catalan newspaper ARA on how Spanish authorities are relocating symbols of the dictatorship.
Publication Uncomfortable Memory, Sílvia Marimon Molas @ ARA Catalan Newspaper, Barcelona, 16 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 Heritage @ UNA Europe
Lecture by Elizabeth Sikiaridi at the UNA University PhD Workshop Heritage Hybridizations: Concepts, Scales and Spaces.
Lecture Hybrid Heritage @ UNA University Alliance Europe, Panthéon-Sorbonne University, Galerie Colbert, 2 rue Vivienne, Paris, 31 March 2021, Online, 1 July 2022
Published @ UNA University, Panthéon-Sorbonne University, Paris, 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
Interview on Iannis Xenakis @ Deutschlandfunk Kultur
Interview with Elizabeth Sikiaridi by Britta Bürger on Iannis Xenakis‘ architectures on the occasion of his 100th birthday about his importance as an architect.
Interview in German with Elizabeth Sikiaridi by Britta Bürger on Iannis Xenakis @ Fazit, Deutschlandfunk Kultur, Live Radio, 29 May 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
Hybrid Heritage @ Practices of Heritage
How to re-signify heritage and physical monuments with the help of creative visions and hybrid (combined physical and digital) tools?
Publication Hybrid Heritage @ Identity and Heritage, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Stuttgart, Germany, 1 Februari 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
ReWild Autobahn @ BDA Berlin
The Berlin-Atlas exhibition of the BDA Gallery Berlin (Gallery of the Association of German Architects) features Hybrid Space Lab’s ReWild Autobahn project.
Exhibition ReWild Autobahn @ BDA Gallery, Mommsenstrasse 64, Berlin, 6 October-26 November 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
Humboldt Volcano @ Berlin Questions Conference for the Immediate Present
Lecture at Berlin Questions Conference for the Immediate Present.
Lecture Humboldt Volcano @ Berlin Questions Conference for the Immediate Present, Marathon for the New Now, Berlin, 14 August 2021
Hybrid Public Spaces @ German Center for Research and Innovation New York
What are the changes in public (physical and digital) spaces that will last in the post-pandemic times?
Lecture & Panel Discussion Hybrid Public Spaces @ German Center for Research and Innovation, New York, 10 June 2021
Hybrid Spaces @ Lithuanian Union of Architects
Our sense of reality is shaped by hybrid existence, as multifaceted hybridity increasingly permeates all dimensions of contemporary life.
Publication Hybrid Spaces @ Regeneration [and its Discontents], Lithuanian Architectural Foundation, Vilnius, Lithuania, 4 June 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
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
Right to Hybrid City @ Architecture Magazine Marlowes
As digital tools expand during COVID‑19, spatial options and impacts of digitization sharpen, prompting reflection on who benefits and what guides our cities.
Publication The Right to the Hybrid City @ Marlowes Magazine for Architecture and City, Germany, 19 May 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
Hybrid Space @ National Gallery of Art Vilnius
The lecture traces Hybrid Space Lab’s evolving approach to urban phenomena, defining Hybrid Space as new conceptual tools merging physical and digital.
Lecture Hybrid Space @ Architecture Fund, Lithuanian Council for Culture, National Gallery of Art Vilnius, Lithuania, 5 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
Deep Space @ ARA Catalan Newspaper
“The Valley of the Fallen without Franco: the fate of the other 33,847 dead”.
Article by journalist Sílvia Marimom in the Catalan Newspaper ARA on the future of the Valle de los Caídos and Deep Space.
Article The Valley of the Fallen without Franco: the fate of the other 33,847 dead, Sílvia Marimom @ Catalan Newspaper ARA, Barcelona, 23 November 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
Deep Space @ Magazine for Architecture Marlowes
The Valley of the Fallen is a memorial erected near Madrid in the mountain range of the Sierra de Guadarrama on the initiative of the dictator Francisco Franco.
Publication From Monument to Memorial@ Magazine for Architecture and City Marlowes, Germany, 16 Juli 2019
Deep Space @ University Library Hamburg
Rather than creating a void at Valle de los Caídos, Hybrid Space Lab urges exploring alternative arratives beyond the monument’s former totalitarian frame.
Article Romanistik Blog @ State and University Library Hamburg Carl von Ossietzky, Hamburg, 8 July 2019
Deep Space @ Goethe Institut
On 24 September 2019, Spain’s Supreme Court unanimously approved exhuming former dictator Franco from the underground basilica of the Valle de los Caídos.
Opening, Exhibition, Lecture, Discussion, Finissage & Public Space Exhibition on Facade: Lost Memory – Recovered Memory @ Goethe Institut, Madrid, 5 June 2019 until Franco’s Exhumation
GREENtopia @ Art Museum of China
Hybrid Space Lab exhibits at the Art Museum China.
Exhibition GreenTopia @ Art Museum of China, Greater Bay Area, Shenzhen, P.R. China, 15 March-15 April 2019
Deep Space @ Catalan Newspaper ARA
Catalan journalist Sílvia Marimon recounts the Deep Space workshop visit to Valle de los Caídos and stresses the need to change its narrative.
Publication The Gaze of European Experts, Sílvia Marimon @ ARA Catalonia, Spain, 31 October 2018
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
Mart Stam Talks @ MakeCity
Presentations and panel with leading Dutch and German artists and architects working in architecture, theater, and material design on participatory concepts.
Lectures & Panel Mart Stam Talks @ Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Berlin, 29 June 2018
Technology & The City @ BPD Magazine
Prof. Dr. Elphi Nelissen and Prof. Frans Vogelaar explore the possibilities of digital technologies for citizens and cities and the design of future cities.
Double Interview with Prof. Dr. Elphi Nelissen & Prof. Frans Vogelaar @ BPD Magazine, The Netherlands, 1 June 2018
BioTecture @ Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum Beijing
Advances like IoT, Big Data, machine intelligence and precision farming shapes life and urban nature, fostering BioTecture where nature and architecture fuse.
Lectures & Discussions @ CAFA Art Museum, Central Academy of Fine Arts Art Museum (CAFA) & Beijing Visual Art Innovation Institute, no 8. Hua Jia Di Nan Jie, Chaoyang District, Beijing, P.R. China, 25-26 November 2017
BioTecture @ Communication University of China
Recent advances like IoT, Big Data, machine intelligence and precision farming shape life and urban nature, fostering BioTecture fusing nature and architecture.
Lecture BioTecture @ Communication University of China (CUC), Dingfuzhuang, Chaoyang District, Beijing, P.R. China, 24 November 2017
Avant Garden @ Festival of Intermedia Hong Kong
In Hong Kong, Avant Garden presents a hybrid urban typology that fuses nature, culture and festivity in a vertical structure with minimal ground occupation.
Exhibition International Festival of Intermedia @ Hong Kong Jockey Club, Hong Kong, 9-22 October 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
Soft Urbanism @ Xi’an Art Museum
Soft Urbanism sees the digital city through a Network Paradigm, reinventing historic networks and linking them to today’s hybrid urban systems for the future.
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
Soft Urbanism @ STRELKA Institute
Soft Urbanism is a new interdisciplinary field of design and planning.
Hutopolis
The social and economic transformations which are happening in both Russia and China are parallel in many ways and both countries are experiencing the shift from a planned economy to new models of development.
Lectures & Workshops Soft Urbanism @ STRELKA Institute,Moscow, 1-6 July 2012
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
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
Humboldt Volcano @ Design Zone Der Tagesspiegel
DER TAGESSPIEGEL Kunst 2016, published for the 9th Berlin Biennale, by Bettina Homann’s with an interview on the projects Humboldt Volcano and Humboldt Jungle.
Publication Design Zone by Bettina Homann @ DER TAGESSPIEGEL Kunst 2016, Berlin, 2 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
City Kit @ JCCAC Crossing Border Festival
City Kit is an hybrid game to upgrade neighbourhoods, developed for Hong Kong Social Housing Authority for young people who play games but rarely go outside.
Exhibition City Kit @ JCCAC Crossing Border Festival, Hong Kong, 1-7 February 2016
Humboldt Jungle @ Alte Tankstelle
Hybrid Space Lab invite Berlin experts from cultural, architectural, environmental and foundation sectors to discuss Humboldt Jungle facade‑greening project.
Lecture by Prof. Elizabeth Sikiaridi & Prof. Frans Vogelaar @ @ GRÜN.kulturell, Alte Tankstelle, Berlin, 29 January 2016
Urban Shrinkage @ Brandenburg University of Technology
The “Transformation Landscape” concept spotlights the left over spaces, and the landscapes in transition and in waiting.
Lecture Transformation Landscape @ Brandenburg University of Technology, Cottbus, Germany, 5 November 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
Hybrid Space Lab @ Governance of the Creative Industries
The online symposium “Korean Demilitarized Zone | European Green Belt Convers(at)ions: Dialogue and Transformation” brings together stakeholders and institutions involved in the development of the European Green Belt and of the Korean DMZ with experts from ecology, creative fields, culture, and conflict analysis and resolution.
Convers(at)ions online Symposium @ Korean Demilitarized Zone, Online, October 2025
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
Networked Participatory Design @ DAMDI Publishers
Networked systems reshape society as the digital transforms production and communication, participatory urban/architectural design are increasingly relevant.
Networked Participatory Design @ DAMDI Publishing House, Seoul, Republic of Korea, 1 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
Internet of Things and the City @ V2 Institute for Unstable Media
There is an increasing awareness that the developments in technology and media have created a hybrid environment which merges with architecture and urbanism.
Lecture Internet of Things @ V2 Institute for Unstable Media, Rotterdam, 9 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
Hybrid Theory & Practice @ Disobedience
Publication by Hybrid Theory and Practice in Format P: Disobedience. Theory and Practice by the Bec Zmiana Foundation, Warsaw.
Publication Hybrid Theory and Practice, Disobedience: Theory and Practice @ Format P, Bec Zmiana Foundation, Warsaw, Poland, December 2013
INbetweenSTITUTE @ UCCA Center for Contemporary Art Beijing
Eight world-renowned Chinese and international offices and experts produced an integrated city planning strategy, presented during Beijing Design Week.
Lectures & Discussions @ UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, 798, No. 4 Jiuxianqiao Lu, Beijing, 28 September 2014
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 @ Bild Newspaper
Merkel admonishes industry; Holland lets opera shine as films on the “City of the Future” light up the opera façade nightly through Wednesday.
Projection Smart & The City @ Opera, Hannover, Germany, 5 April 2014
Smart & the City @ Hannoversche Allgemeine
On 9 April 2014, the Opera House walls became a canvas; a 15‑minute animation by Hybrid Space Lab played in a continuous loop on the façade.
Publication City of Light Projection @ Hannoversche Allgemeine, Hannover, Germany, 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
Intelligent Urbanism @ Beijing Design Week
Hybrid Space Lab’s “Shrinking Car City,” on electromobility and the urban landscape, was presented on 12 Dec 2013 at Beijing’s Intelligent Urbanism Conference.
Lecture Shrinking Car City @ Beijing Design Week 2013 & Italian Institute of Culture, Beijing, 12 December 2013
City Kit @ Jockey Club Hong Kong
Hybrid Space Lab’s project City Kit is exhibited in the After City exhibition at the Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre in Hong Kong.
Exhibition City Kit @ Hong Kong Jockey Club, After City, Hong Kong, 1-6 October 2013
Networked Participatory Design @ Hutopolis
Participatory design today continues the tradition of public involvement in shaping cities while marking a broader trend and a paradigm shift in urban practice.
Publication Networked Participatory Design @ Hutopolis, Beijing Design Week, Beijing, 30 September 2013
Anti-Tectonics @ Beijing Design Week
Can the mutable conditions of today’s China become the basis for radical development of architecture and urban planning disciplines?
Lecture Urbanisation in China @ Beijing Design Week 2013 , Dashanzi, 798, Beijing, 28 September 2013
Big Design and Big Data @ Geo City Symposium Beijing
GeoCity Smart City is the feature exhibition for Beijing Design Week 2013.
Lecture Geo City Symposium @ CMoDA, China Millennium Monument Museum of Digital Arts, Beijing, 28 September 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
Shrinking Car City @ Museum for Architecture & Engineering NRW
“Shrinking Car City” at the “Dynamik und Wandel. Entwicklung der Städte am Rhein” exhibition organized by the Museum für Architektur und Ingenieurkunst NRW.
Exhibition Future Vision @ Museum for Architecture & Engineering NRW, Cologne, Germany, 9 September-13 October 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
U.F.O. @ Jockey Club Hong Kong
Hybrid Space Lab’s work is exhibited in the U.F.O. exhibition at the Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre in Hong Kong.
Exhibition @ Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre, Hong Kong, 23 May-23 June 2013
Notations @ Notebook DAMDI Publishers
Hybrid Space Lab projects are strongly process-oriented using notations of processes.
Notations @ Notebook, DAMDI Publishing House, Seoul, Republic of Korea, 1 May 2013
City Kit @ Culture Station Seoul 284
City Kit is an urban‑computer game to upgrade neighbourhoods, developed for Hong Kong Social Housing Authority for young gamers who rarely spend time outdoors.
Exhibition & Publication Dream Society @ Culture Station Seoul 284, Seoul, South Korea, 20 April-26 May 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
Rebooting Design @ Design Journal
Creative fields from music to architecture now merge through one universal tool—the computer—which connects and integrates these diverse forms of production.
Publication Dutch Open @ Design Journal Volume 15, United Kingdom, December 2012
Simple City @ Plan 12
Abstract model and concrete field merge as a metaphor for analogue‑digital complexity, with Hybrid Space Lab’s Simple City displaying interconnected projects.
Lecture Simple City @ plan12, Cologne, 22 September 2012
Exhibition Simple City @ plan12, Cologne, 21-28 September 2012
Simple City @ Bauwelt
From box‑like stacking to amorphous forms shaped by computing power, modules let architects do anything; Architectural Particles is the 2012 highlight at MAKK.
Publication Simple City, Uta Winterhager @ Bauwelt, Germany, 12 September-13 November 2012
Simple City @ Museum of Applied Arts
Architectural Particles – Modular Building in the Digital Age is an exhibition on modular digital architecture.
Exhibition Simple City @ MAKK Museum for Applied Arts, Modular Building in the Digital Age , Cologne, 12 September -13 November 2012
City Kit @ World Architects eMagazine
Digital tools enable participatory systems, Hybrid Space Lab emerges between architect and client, occupying a shared realm where spatial decisions are shaped.
Publication Simple City @ World Architects eMagazine, 1 May 2012
Winter Herb Summer Worm @ Stylepark
Modular elements ease planning and building, yet demand adaptability for living and working needs—an issue explored in MAKK’s “Architekturteilchen” exhibition.
Publication by Jorg Zimmermann @ Stylepark, Germany, 1 May 2012
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
Iannis Xenakis @ Akademie der Künste
Control and Chance: Iannis Xenakis: composer, architect, visionary, a lecture by Elizabeth Sikiardi: Morphologies: the architectures of lannis Xenakis.
Lecture on Iannis Xenakis @ Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg, Berlin, 25 November 2011
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 Design @ Beijing Design Week
Department of Hybrid Space , Prof. Frans Vogelaar, presents “Hybrid Design”, consisting of lectures, screenings and a workshop on self replicating 3D printers.
Lectures, Exhibition & Workshop Hybrid Design @ Beijing Design Week, Beijing, China, 27 September-3 October 2011
Hybrid Space @ Delft University of Technology
Hybrid Space Lab is contributing with a lecture and workshop to INDESEM, the International Design Seminar hosted by Delft University of Technology.
Lecture & Workshop Hybrid Space @ Losing Ground, INDESEM 2011 International Design Seminar, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands, 13 May 2011
CoThenticity @ Dutch Design Institute
The Copy/Culture® Symposium Beijing by the Netherlands Institute for Design and Fashion examines how copying, open source and sampling impact the design field.
Lecture @ Copy/Culture Symposium, Premsela, The Netherlands Institute for Design and Fashion, Beijing, 11 September 2011
Hybrid Notations @ Centre of Contemporary Art Torun
Workshop at the Centre of Contemporary Art Torun, focusing on hybrid‑space notations and addressing urban environments in their hybridity and complexity.
Lecture, Workshop & Article @ Centre of Contemporary Art “Znaki Czasu”, Torun, Poland, 31 March-3 April 2011
Iannis Xenakis @ Contemporary Art Center Torun
When asked about the precursors of hybrid projects, Hybrid Space Lab mentions Buckminster Fuller and Iannis Xenakis.
Lecture Xenakis’ Morphologies @ Contemporary Art Center Znaki Czasu, Torun, Poland, 1 April 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
City Kit @ Architectural Digest
City Kit upgrades neighborhoods as a Design & Architecture 2.0 tool, involving users and using a hybrid peer‑to‑peer game environment to update local space.
Publication City Kit @ Architectural Digest, Milan, 1 May 2010
Hybrid Space @ Sonic Acts 2010
Hybrid Space is the superimposition and layering of physical, informational and media infrastructures, and social, cultural and economic flows.
Lecture Hybrid Space @ Conference Poetics of Space, Sonic Acts 2010, Amsterdam, 26 February 2010
Cognitive Space @ 010 Publishers
In societies of control, power acts at a distance as one mind influences another through the brain’s affective capacities, mediated and amplified by technology.
Publication Cognitive Space, From Biopolitics to Noopolitics Architecture & Mind in the Age of Communication and Information @ 010 Publishers, Delft School of Design Series on Architecture and Urbanism, Rotterdam, 2010
Winter Worm Summer Herb @ Hong Kong & Shenzhen Bienniale for Urbanism & Architecture
Winter Worm Summer Herb pavilion is designed by Hybrid Space Lab for the 2009 Hong Kong & Shenzhen Bi-City Biennial of Urbanism & Architecture.
Publication & Exhibition Winter Worm Summer Herb @ 2009 Hong Kong & Shenzhen Bi-City Bienniale of Urbanism & Architecture, Hong Kong & Shenzhen, 1 December 2009-15 February 2010
Hybrid Space @ Film Festival Cologne
Prof. Frans Vogelaar presents Hybrid Space and participates in the discussion panel at the Media Architecture section of the Film Festival Cologne 2009.
Lecture & Panel Hybrid Space @ Media Architecture, Film Festival Cologne, 2 October 2009
111 Professor @ University of Geo Sciences Wuhan
Prof. Frans Vogelaar has been appointed 111 Professor at China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China.
111 Professor, Prof. Frans Vogelaar @ China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China, 1 April 2009
City Kit @ Dutch Design Foundation
The Winter Worm Summer Herb pavilion uses triangular plywood plates bound with cable ties, forming a low‑tech mobile structure.
Publication City Kit @ Platform 21, Dutch Design Foundation, the Netherlands, 20 October 2008
Soft Urbanism @ University Dortmund
Soft Urbanism studies the city’s “soft” communication aspects and the dynamic interplay of urban planning with mass media and communication in public space.
Publication Soft Urbanism @ Stadperspektiven, University Dortmund, Germany, 1 September 2008
City Kit @ Platform 21 Dutch Design Foundation
Playing the game City Kit, you adapt a digital version of your local surroundings according to your desires.
Exhibition City Kit @ Checking Reality, Dutch Design Foundation Premsela, Platform 21, Amsterdam, 18 May-27 August 2008
Publication @ Curatorial Cooking, Dutch Design Foundation Premsela, Platform 21, Amsterdam, 18 May 2008
Lecture Participatory Design @ Club Real #4, Dutch Design Foundation Premsela, Platform 21, Amsterdam, 27 August 2008
Migrating Reality @ General Public Berlin
Digital systems create new forms of migration, and the creative arts new phenomena emerge from these migrations and ynergies of disparate systems.
Lecture Hybrid Space @ General Public, Berlin, 4 April 2008
Soft Urbanism @ University of Architecture and Planning Aalborg
Soft Urbanism researches communication processes in public space and how invisible networks reshape urban form, cut through it demanding new interfaces.
Lecture Soft Urbanism, Between Physical and Digital Public Domain @ University of Architecture, Design and Planning, Tegnesalen, Toldkammeret, Aalborg, Denmark, 15 November 2007
Neighbours Network City @ Metalocus
NNC works at the scale of a 4,435‑km² agglomeration with over 5 million people; in 2010, Europe’s Cultural Capital is not a city but the Ruhr region.
Publication Neighbours Network City @ Metalocus, Madrid, Spain, 20 May 2007
Urban Acupuncture @ Deutsche Bauzeitung
Urban redevelopment starts selectively in the urban field with conversions and extensions, using resources sparingly and strategically.
Publication Urban Acupuncture @ Deutsche Bauzeitung Germany, 20 February 2007
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
Iannis Xenakis @ Soundspaces of the Arts
A striking artistic synergy emerges in 20th‑century aesthetics as Le Corbusier creates an electronic poem and pavilion for Philips at the 1958 Brussels Expo.
Publication “From event structure to spatial form” @ Klangräume der Kunst, Kehrer Verlag, 7 Juli 2006
Hybrid Space @ Talking Cities
The interactive Audio Lounge provides the framework for Talking Cities Radio, designed exclusively for Talking Cities.
Audio Lounge is realised in cooperation with students from the “Hybrid Space” project group of Prof. Frans Vogelaar, Academy of Media Arts, Cologne.
Exhibition Talking Cities Radio @ Talking Cities, Essen, Germany, 16 May 2006
Structural Change @ Wirschaftjahrbuch
Inner cities in the Ruhr face shrinking purchasing power, vacancies and sameness; the question is how far this structural decline will continue.
Publication & Interview Structural change, Axel Schuch @ Wirschaftjahrbuch, Germany, 1 May 2006
Sub City @ Space Time Play
How can architects and urban designers apply games and game technologies as tools for drafting and planning?
Publication Sub City @ Space Time Play, Birkhäuser, Publishers for Architecture, Basel, Boston, Berlin, 1 April 2006
Soft Urbanism @ Deutsche Bauzeitung
Soft Urbanism examines the city’s ‘soft’ communication aspects and the dynamic interplay between urban development, mass media and communication networks.
Publication Soft Urbanism @ Deutsche Bauzeitung, Germany , 1 April 2006
Industrial Succession Landscapes @ Bauhaus University Weimar
Workshop in cooperation with the TU Berlin, the TU Kaiserslautern and the Bauhaus University Weimar published by Bauhaus University Weimar.
Workshop & Publication Industrial Succession Landscapes @ Bauhaus University Weimar, Germany, 17 February 2006
Public Media Urban Interfaces @ Metalocus
Public Media Urban Interfaces strengthens public urban space by rethinking mass‑media and creating a hybrid network‑space merging media and urban realms.
Publication Public Media Urban Interfaces @ Metalocus, Madrid, Spain, 17 November 2005
Smart Home @ Die Wohnungswirtschaft
Architect Elizabeth Sikiaridi, professor at the University of Duisburg‑Essen, researches how information and communication technologies shape life and work.
Publication Smart Home @ Die Wohnungswirtschaft, Germany, 1 October 2005
Public Urban Media @ Urban Screens Stedelijk Museum
Urban Screens ’05 is an international conference spanning critical theory and project work by researchers in art, architecture, urban studies and digital media.
Lecture Public Urban Media @ Conference Urban Screens, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 23-24 September 2005
Wearable Futures @ University of Wales
Wearable Futures unites practitioners and theorists exploring soft technology and wearables across fashion, textiles, design, media arts, wellness and science.
Publication & Lecture Hybrid Urban Mobility Spaces @ Conference Wearable Futures, University of Wales, UK, 16 September 2005
Idensity® @ University Stuttgart
To reinforce public space, local and global publics must be linked by creating spheres where both can meet, fuse and exchange.
Publication Idensity® @ University Stuttgart, Germany, 1 August 2005
Smart Home @ Bundesgartenschau 2005
BUGA 05 in Munich offers new impulses; as part of the UN Decade for Sustainable Development, four symposia are held with the German UNESCO Commission.
Lecture Smart Home @ Bundesgartenschau München 2005, Munich, Germany, 16-17 June 2005
Idensity® @ MIT Press Leonardo
Idensity® develops scenarios for an interplay of the urban space and the media domain.
Publication Idensity® @ MIT Leonardo Press, Boston, USA, 1 July 2005
Soft Urbanism @ University of the Arts Berlin
Soft Urbanism studies the city’s ‘soft’ communication aspects and the dynamic interplay between urban development, mass media and communication networks.
Lecture Soft Urbanism @ Symposium Operation City, University of the Arts Berlin, Germany, 26-28 May 2005
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
Iannis Xenakis @ Alice Foundation
Elizabeth Sikiaridi explores the interdisciplinary aspects of Iannis Xenakis’s work and his synthesis of the arts, drawing on archival research and interviews with him.
Publication, Lecture & Discussion Iannis Xenakis @ Make it New, le Poème électronique, Alice Foundation , Eindhoven, the Netherlands, 15 June 2004
Iannis Xenakis @ Technoetic Arts
In the aesthetic production of the 20th century, there is a fascinating moment of artistic synergy.
The Architectures of Iannis Xenakis @ Technoetic Arts, United Kingdom, 1 May 2004
Idensity® @ Aminima
To reinforce public space, local and global publics must be linked by creating spheres where both can meet, fuse and exchange.
Publication Idensity® @ Aminima, Spain, 1 May 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® @ RICX Media Architecture
To reinforce the significance of public space we have to deal with at least two ‘publics’, the global and the local public.
Publication Idensity® @ Media Architecture Conference, RICX, Riga, Latvia, 15 March 2004
Hybrid Space @ Springerin Magazine
RIXC, the center of new media culture in Riga (formerly E-lab), is known for its wide-ranging interest in the latest communication technologies.
One of the first Art + Communication festivals put Net-Radio at the center of extensive international discussions as a form of production, but also of distribution of art content.
Publication Hybrid Space, Tatiana Goryuchevace @ Springerin magazine for criticism and theory of contemporary culture, Austria, 16-17 May 2003
Media Architecture @ New Media Festival
The Media Architecture Festival, an event that stands at the cusp international research network between the computer and the postmodern architecture.
Lecture Networked Architecture @ New Media Cultural Festival, Riga, Latvia, 16-17 May 2003
Network Society @ Neue Zürcher Zeitung
At Swissbau, Toyo Ito joined virtual‑architecture pioneers as Sikiaridi presented “idensity,” her concept describing media‑urban networks and eal‑virtual space.
Publication Information Technology and Architecture, Villö Huszai @ Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Switzerland, 1 February 2002
Network City @ ETH Zurich
At Swissbau, international architects and leaders from politics and business were invited to discuss the theme “mobility: immobility” at the A2B conference.
Publication Mobility : Immobility, Susanne Schumacher @ ETH Zurich, Switzerland, 29 January 2002
New Mobility @ A2B International Architecture Symposium
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
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
Iannis Xenakis @ Werk Bauen Wohnen
Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001), who was originally trained as an engineer and who later was to become an internationally known composer.
Publication Iannis Xenakis @ Werk Bauen Wohnen, Germany, November 2001
the Use of Space in the Information/Communication Age @ Infodrome
“the Use of Space in the Information/Communication Age – Processing the Unplannable” presents an introduction to the questions raised by the developments in information/communication technology (ICT) and their interaction with the urban.
It also addresses the challenges of urban/regional planning in the early stages of the information/communication age.
This “issue paper” is intended to be a basis for a workshop within the framework presented by Infodrome, dealing with the theme of the “use of space in the information/communication age”.
The paper is based on our long-term research and work in the development of a new field of planning and design that combines urbanism and architecture with information/communication networks and media spaces (“Soft Urbanism”, “Networked Architecture”).
Publication the Use of Space in the Information/Communication Age @ Infodrome, Amsterdam, 1 May 2000
Idensity® @ Kunst NRW-NL
Hybrid Space develops scenarios for the interplay of public urban and public media space.
Publication Idensity® @ Kunst NRW-NL, Amsterdam, 8 October 1999
reBOOT @ Kunst NRW-NL
reBOOT, a floating media lab, will travel the Rhine from Oct 8–15, streaming live programs and docking in cities for on‑site performances and art events.
Publication reBOOT @ Kunst NRW-NL, Amsterdam, 8 – 15 October 1999
Hybrid Space @ Arch Komm
Urban space dissolves into expanding media networks as telecom and mass media increasingly replace its functions through devices embedded in private interiors.
Publication Hybrid Space @ Arch-Komm, Cologne, Germany, 1 May 1999
Ivory Tower @ Kunstforum
Academy for Media Arts is located where I would like to see it most, in between.
Interview Ivory Tower with Many Openings, Amine Haase & Siegfried Zielinsky @ Kunstforum, Germany, January 1999
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
Politics of Space @ Lab für Kunst und Apparate
Media segregation mirrors real urban divide: controlled enclaves worldwide range from fortified compounds to affluent retirement towns and Disney’s Celebration.
Publication Politics of Space @ Lab für Kunst und Apparate, Academy of Media Arts, Cologne, Germany, 1 October 1998
Deutschen Bundesbank @ Wettbewerb Aktuell
A restricted competition shaped the Deutsche Bundesbank extension in Frankfurt, with Elizabeth Sikiaridi serving as lead architect at Behnisch & Partner.
Publication Deutschen Bundesbank @ Wettbewerb Aktuell, Germany, 1 October 1998
Professor Hybrid Space @ KHM
Frans Vogelaar was appointed Professor for Hybrid Space in 1998 at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne, Germany
Professor for Hybrid Space, Frans Vogelaar @ Academy of Media Arts, Cologne, Germany, 1 April 1998
Soft Urbanism @ de Architect 1997
Public urban space and the “space” of communication networks are usually seen as frameworks for social interaction, competing or mutually exclusive.
Publication Soft Urbanism @ Architect, Magazine for Architecture and Urbanism, The Netherlands, 1 June 1997
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 @ Items #6 1993
Telecommunications lack the tangible everyday reality of the residential neighborhood. Conversely, the culture of the city is entitled to digital technologies.
This is why Frans Vogelaar and Elizabeth Sikiaridi developed the project “Media Babies on Chanel no.5.”
It is a more elaborate concept for a digital public space for London.
Media Babies on CHANNEL no.5 @ Items #6, Magazine for Design, Visual Communication and Architecture, 1 September 1993
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
Hybrid Space @ Architectural Association School of Architecture
Exhibition and publication at the Architectural Association School of Architecture on Architecture & High-Touch and Tech Surfaces.
Networked Urbanism: merging digital and physical space.
Exhibition & Publication Hybrid Space @ Architectural Association, Architectural Association School of Architecture, 34-36 Bedford Square, London, 17-21 June 1989