Innovative, creative and pragmatic Dutch approaches showcased technology solutions for global challenges at Hannover Messe 2014.
Television Program: Interviews, Lectures, Talks & Discussions @ Hannover Messe, Hannover, Germany, 7-10 April 2014
Urban Screening Smart & the City @ Hannover Opera, Hannover, Germany, 7-10 April 2014
Embassy Lab Mobility+ investigates the synergies between Smart Mobility and the different systems of Smart City.
Public Lecture & Workshop Program Embassy Lab Mobility+ @ BMW Welt, Munich, 25 February 2015
Interview with Hybrid Space Lab by the STRELKA Institute in Moscow for the Future Urbanism project.
Interview Future Urbanism @ Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design, Moscow, 15 December 2013
The property becomes an interface as the house turns into a smart network. Like the connected car our homes now merge physical space with digital systems.
Interview Social Construction & Technology @ BUGA, Bundesgartenschau 2005, Munich, 1 September 2005
[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
The conference “Green Belt” ighlights the Green Belt as a unique natural and cultural area and to support its nomination as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Lecture & Discussion by Prof. Elizabeth Sikiaridi @ Conference Green Belt, Erfurt, Germany, 10 – 11 June 2026
Generative AI is rapidly changing the creative disciplines: boundaries between disciplines are blurring, value creation no longer arises in production (“maker”), while the demand for framing, taste, quality, responsibility, intellectual property (IP) and transparency is growing.
hAIbrid @ AI Coalition 4 NL, Amsterdam, 5 February 2026
CircEUlar is a four‑year EU project developing system‑level models for circularity, addressing dematerialisation, service‑based economies and extended material lifetimes.
Hybrid Space Lab @ CircEUlar, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Berlin, 23 September 2025
Studio Alchimia was a avant-garde group founded by Alessandro and Adriana Guerriero in Milan in 1976, bringing together the most important Italian designers and architects of the 1970s and 80s, including Alessando Mendini, Ettore Sottsass and Andrea Branzi.
Frans Vogelaar was part of Studio Alchimia in 1981-1982.
Newsletter Studio Alchimia @ Hybrid Space Lab, 10 September 2025
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
Hybrid Space Lab is developing a visual strategy in support of the climate adaptation law for Berlin “BäumePlus-Gesetz” that is developed by the Berlin NGO BaumEntscheid.
Climate Adaptation @ BaumEntscheid, Berlin, 2025-2026
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
On occasion of Studio Alchimia’s retrospective exhibition, Hybrid Space Lab conducted an interview with Alchimia’s founder Alessandro Guerriero at Fondazione Prada.
Frans Vogelaar was part of the transdisciplinary Studio Alchimia from 1981 to 1982, designing together with the Italian architect and designer Alessandro Mendini the chair and two-seater Sabrina for the Italian furniture firm Driade.
Newsletter Studio Alchimia @ Hybrid Space Lab, 25 August 2025
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
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
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 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
Alchimia revolutionised design in the late 1970s, breaking with functionalism and opening a new era. Frans Vogelaar was part of the group in 1981–1982.
Exhibition & Publication @ Alchimia, Bröhan Museum & ADI Design Museum, Berlin & Milan, 17 April – 7 September 2025
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
Interview by Felix Hofmann, journalist at the Berlin taz newspaper in the taz Schlossaneignung Blog.
Interview & Publication, Felix Hofmann @ taz, Berlin, 27 November 2024
An article by Philipp Oswalt in DOM 17 mentions Humboldt Jungle, Hybrid Space Lab’s initiative to green the Humboldt Forum façade.
Publication Schlossaneignung, Philipp Oswalt @ DOM magazine No. 17, DOM Publishers, Berlin, 1 November 2024
Urban open spaces face high demands: they must be climate‑adapted, ecologically valuable, foster interaction, be multifunctional, aesthetic and support health.
Publication Sustainable Landscape Design and Development @ Baukultur NRW, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, 15 September 2024
Museum Director Paul Spies notes that tourists bypass the Humboldt Forum and recalls proposals like a green façade for the palace.
Interview Paul Spies by Birgit Rieger @ Tagesspiegel, Berlin, 29 June 2024
At the Progressive Governance Summit 2024, transatlantic and global partners worked on strategies and solutions to make the 2020s a decade of progress.
Participation Elizabeth Sikiaridi @ Progressive Governance Summit 2024, State Representation of Baden-Württemberg, Berlin, 21-22 June 2024
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
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
Hybrid Space Lab contributes with the lecture CRISIS design to Designing beyond Crisis at Berlin Science Week 2023.
Lecture CRISIS design @ Designing beyond Crisis, Berlin Science Week 2023, 2 November 2023
Hybrid Space Lab’s contribution to the Bismarck Neu Denken competition is shown at the Foundation Historical Museums Hamburg, 26 Jul–16 Aug 2023.
Bismarck Beyond @ Foundation Historical Museums Hamburg, 26 July-16 August 2023
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
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
Panel festACCELERATOR with Steve Austen and Paul Spies explores how international cooperation can speed up the Creative & Tech Festival Berlin 2024–2029.
Panel festACCELERATOR, Steve Austen & Paul Spies, Town Hall Meeting #2 @ Holzmarkt, Berlin, 11 April 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 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
Club Futures is an international lab developing future‑oriented perspectives for the club and cultural scene, created by Hybrid Space Lab with global partners.
Lecture & Discussion Club Futures @ transmediale , Vorspiel 18.30-20.00, 18 Januari 2023
A sort of staircase enveloped in jungle thickets, a waterfall and food offerings on the way up to the roof of Berlin’s city castle.
Publication @ RBB, Berlin, 5 February 2023
As adventurous as Humboldt himself: The design by the architecture firm Hybrid Space Lab for the Berlin Palace.
Publication by Julia Weiss @ Tagesspiegel, Berlin, 31 January 2023
INbetweenSTITUTE is introduced with a cultural historical analysis of the face in the Digital Age by Merlijn Schoonenboom.
Presentation, Discussion & Dinner, Merlijn Schoonenboom, Cultural Historian and Journalist @ INbetweenSTITUTE, Hybrid Space Lab, Berlin, 19 May 2023
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
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 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 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
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
The pilot issue of KHM Magazine (#0) entitled “Out of Time” will address questions such as: What does it mean for people in general and artists in particular to have to keep their distance? How do we experience the changing world, the fears, hopes or anger, promises and consolations? How can we react to them or think of them in terms of a changed future? How is our relationship to closeness and distance changing?
Article Post COVID-19 City @ Academy of Media Arts, Cologne, Germany, 27 July 2022
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 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
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
permaCRISIS
Contemporary societies are faced with multiple crises, including climate change, biodiversity loss, social injustice and turmoil, geopolitical conflict and war, humanitarian crises, energy emergency and food insecurity.
Newsletter Permacrisis @ Hybrid Space Lab, 10 June 2022
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
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
Interview with Elizabeth Sikiaridi by Britta Bürger on Iannis Xenakis‘ architectures in the live programme “Fazit” of the German cultural radio “Deutschlandfunk Kultur” on the occasion of Iannis Xenakis‘ 100th birthday about his work and importance as an architect.
Interview in German with Elizabeth Sikiaridi by Britta Bürger on Iannis Xenakis @ Fazit, Deutschlandfunk Kultur, Live Radio, 29 May 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
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 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
How to re-signify heritage and physical monuments with the help of creative visions and hybrid (combined physical and digital) tools? Hybrid Heritage engages with this challenge presenting a series of projects researching and designing contemporary interpretations and further development of heritage from a multicultural perspective. Including the integration of digital technology and media networks in heritage projects, Hybrid Heritage also focuses on cultural hybridity in today’s globalized world.
Publication Hybrid Heritage @ Identity and Heritage, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Stuttgart, Germany, 1 Februari 2022
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 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, 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
Baunetz showcases ReWild Autobahn as part of the Berlin Atlas.
Publication ReWild Autobahn @ BauNetz, Berlin Atlas, Berlin, 19 November 2021
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
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 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
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 Lab is invited to propose artistic interventions for Bismarck Monument in Hamburg’s Alter Elbpark and suggest ways to place it in a new context.
Lecture & Panel Discussion @ Re-Contextualizing the Hamburg Bismarck Monument, Ministry of Culture and Media Hamburg, Germany, 16 September 2021
Our sense of reality is constituted as hybrid – simultaneously online and offline, local and global, national and transnational, professional and layperson.
Newsletter September 2021 @ Hybrid Space Lab, Berlin, 15 September 2021
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
Culture and Computing addresses human‑centred design of interactive technologies for cultural heritage and for developing and shaping future cultures.
Program Board Member Culture & Computing Conference 2021 @ Washington Hilton Hotel, Washington DC, USA, 24-29 July 2021
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
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
Publication on Hybrid Space Lab’s work on contested monuments is published in book “Designs for Vulnerable Memories”.
Publication Re-Charting Places @ Contested Spaces – Concerted Projects: Designs for Vulnerable Memories, LetteraVentidue Edizioni, Syracuse, Italy, April 2021
Hjärnstorm, the Swedish independent journal of art, literature, philosophy published an article on Deep Space.
Publication Valle de los Caídos: the Digital Architecture Embraces a Painful Heritage, Cecilia Nyman @ Hjärnstorm Stockholm, 5 January 2021
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
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
Hybrid Space Lab contributes to the international conference “Practices of Inheritance” at Bauhaus University Weimar and TU Berlin.
Lecture Hybrid Heritage @ Bauhaus University Weimar & Technical University Berlin, Conference Practices of Inheritance, Metaphors, Materializations, Power Constellations, Tempelhof Airport, Berlin, 19 November 2020
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
The exhibition “Negotiating Borders – Real DMZ Project” shows Hybrid Space Lab’s DMZpace, exploring the border zone as a place of wounds and thriving nature.
Exhibition DMZpace @ Korean Cultural Center, Paris, 10 September-6 November 2020
Hybrid Space Lab contributes to the International Master Class Artistic Research, pioneering developments of immersive 360° concepts and narratives.
Lecture Hybrid Heritage @ Film University Babelsberg, Master Class Artistic Research, Potsdam, Germany, 7-18 September 2020
The Valle de los Caídos is controversial as a Civil War memorial, long serving to glorify Franco rather than commemorate the fallen.
Interview, Eckhard Roelcke, journalist @ Deutschlandfunk Kultur, Germany, 8 August 2020
Hybrid Space Lab suggests recontextualizing Franco’s controversial mausoleum in the Valley of the Fallen, contributing a new perspective to the monument debate.
Publication, Bernhard Schultz, journalist @ Der Tagesspiegel, Berlin, 16 July 2020
Monuments carry meaning. Hybrid Space Lab studies how monument narratives can be renegotiated and how critical perspectives can be introduced.
Interview, Brigitte Werneburg, journalist @ taz, Germany, 14 July 2020
As heritage gains new depth in the 21st century, Hybrid Space Lab’s Hybrid Heritage explores how digital tools unlock this moment’s interdisciplinary potential.
Lecture Hybrid Heritage @ AMPS [Architecture, Media, Politics, Society] Conference, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK, 29-30 June 2020
Professor Sharon Macdonald cites Humboldt Jungle as an example and inspiration for creatively appropriating and transforming the Humboldt Forum.
Article, Professor Sharon Macdonald, Alexander von Humboldt Professor of Social Anthropology @ Humboldt Forum, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institute of European Ethnology, Berlin, 15 June 2020
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
The COVID-19 pandemic forces us to develop visions for future hybrid (combined physical and digital) public cultural spaces.
Newsletter May 2020 @ Hybrid Space Lab, Berlin, 15 May 2020
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
Featured in Seoul’s DMZ Landscape Hybrid Space Lab’s DMZpace shows the border’s no‑man’s land potential between historic wounds and thriving nature.
Exhibition DMZpace @ Yeonnamjang Underground Gallery, Seoul, 2 May-17 May 2020
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
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
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
A lecture and workshop at Köpenick Town Hall explored tools for addressing spatial and social dimensions of the climate city through an integrated approach.
Lecture & Workshop Climate City: Spatial and Social Dimensions @ Köpenick Townhall, Council Chamber, Berlin, 27 February 2020
With ubiquitous digitalization of cities, different social and urban approaches provide inputs, opening up room for the possibility for shaping urban-tech.
Newsletter February 2020 @ Hybrid Space Lab, Berlin, 15 February 2020
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
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
Humboldt Jungle and Humboldt Volcano are mentioned by author and historian Merlijn Schoonenboom in the book on identity “Een kleine geschiedenis van de grootse Duitse worsteling”.
Publication A small history of the great German struggle, Merlijn Schoonenboom @ Querido Publishers, Amsterdam, 5 December 2019
“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
The Mart Stam Stiftung frequently organizes symposia in cooperation with the Royal Dutch Embassy of Berlin.
Poster @ Mart Stam Stiftung, Berlin, 15 November 2019
Ubiquitous digitalization pervades urban environments at an accelerating pace. So is climate change, with increasingly frequent threatening episodes of extreme weather conditions worldwide, urging us to rethink our cities, and rapidly.
Newsletter November 2019 @ Hybrid Space Lab, Berlin, 15 November 2019
Hybrid Space Lab plan is in line with the most important question for contemporary cultural identity: the relationship between tradition and innovation.
Publication A small history of the biggest German struggle, Merlijn Schoonenboom @ Querido Publishers, Amsterdam, November 2019
Even without the remains of the dictator, the symbolic value of Valle de los Caídos retains its controversial force. What transformations are needed at Valle de los Caídos (“Valley of the Fallen”) so as not to create a cenotaph – an empty burial monument?
HuffPost article “Without Franco, what to do with Valle de los Caídos?”, Anthony Berthelier presents Deep Space’s creative approach to re‑signifying the site.
Article Without Franco, what to do with the colossal Valle de los Caídos?, Anthony Berthelier @ HuffPost , France, 24 October 2019
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
What would Alexander von Humboldt’s 250th birthday wish have been?
This last summer brought again burning questions to the fore: Are extreme hot temperatures established as the new norm? Is the burning of the earth’s lungs and biodiversity ark becoming everyday news?
Newsletter September 2019 @ Hybrid Space Lab, Berlin, 15 September 2019
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
Der Tagesspiegel berichtete über die Grünen‑Anfrage im Bundestag zur Umsetzung des Humboldt Jungle und griff damit die Debatte um das Projekt auf.
Publication Humboldt costs, yes and no @ Der Tagesspiegel, Germany, 19 July 2019
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
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
One question the Green Party put before the Bundestag on 2 July 2019 concerned the Humboldt Forum and addressed issues central to the project’s direction.
Publication 19/11306 Answer @ Deutscher Bundestag, German Federal Government, Germany, 2 July 2019
Ubiquitous digitization is increasingly transforming urban life in all its aspects and Smart City technologies promise unlimited efficiency to urban mobility solutions.
It is however worth reflecting on why digitally supported and automated negotiation concerning, amongst others, mobility does not necessarily equal objective and fair decision-making.
Newsletter July 2019 @ Hybrid Space Lab, Berlin, 15 July 2019
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
Future Narratives and Immersive Experiences symposium at the Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF on May 22 2019 brought together interdisciplinary co-creators in the audiovisual sector, companies dealing with media, VR / AR / MR, games, 3D sound, the staging of productions, communication, heritage and cultural institutions or other fields of activity with the urge of delivering high-quality storytelling in the digital era.
Newsletter June 2019 @ Hybrid Space Lab, Berlin, 15 June 2019
Buildings endure, shaping space and politics, yet their long durée can fail as society shifts faster than structures, leaving heritage or rubble as living dead.
Lecture @ NONUMENT! Symposium, Prague, 14 June 2019
Spain’s socialist government seeks to move dictator Franco’s remains from his vast Valle de los Caídos basilica near Madrid, attracting over 300,000 visitors.
Publication, Juliette Campion @ France TV Info, Paris, 10 June 2019
Deep Space by Hybrid Space Lab, at the Goethe‑Institut Madrid, uses virtual reality to rethink the Valley of the Fallen and transform its totalitarian legacy.
Publication, Peio H. Riaño @ El País, Madrid, 6 June 2019
Hybrid Space Lab uses creativity to foster collective memory‑making, enabling engagement with contentious sites and easing stasis and political reticence.
Publication Creative Crossovers @ Public Diplomacy Magazine, University of Southern California, USC Annenberg, USC Centre on Public Diplomacy, USC Masters of Public Diplomacy Program, USA, 7 June 2019
Public installation, lecture and panel at the Goethe‑Institut Madrid with Miquel Gonzalez, Emilio Silva, Prof. Gutmaro Gómez Bravo and Hybrid Space Lab.
Opening, Exhibition, Lecture & Discussion Lost Memory – Recovered Memory, Deep Space @ Goethe Institut, Madrid, 5 June 2019
Hybrid Space Lab unleashed intense debate on this utopian idea; mixing tabloid imagery with global green‑city expertise proved a highly effective strategy.
Publication Make City, Francesca Ferguson, MAKE_SHIFT @ Make City, Berlin, May 2019
Digitalization transforms our cities, with far-reaching efforts towards technology-powered increased efficiency, sustainability and at times participation.
This raises new questions on privacy, data governance and (digital) design, historically unaddressed by city planning, architecture, civil society and governance.With cities worldwide striving to earn a “Smart City” reputation, it is however disputed who exactly benefits from these concepts.
Newsletter April 2019 @ Hybrid Space Lab, Berlin, 15 April 2019
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
The documentary “Fabric” for documenta 14, portraying a Middle Eastern family and the history of the Athens art‑school complex, is part of the Greek archives.
Archive Fabric @ documenta 14, Athens School of Fine Art, Athens, 15 February 2019
As technology, the digital and the physical intersect, affecting our lives and societies in ways previously unthought-of, our thinking and approach to reality must be future-proof, too.
Here is an upshot of an increasingly digitally networked and co-created prospect, ranging from fashion to heritage, to diplomacy.
Newsletter February 2019 @ Hybrid Space Lab, Berlin, 15 February 2019
Hybrid Space Lab takes a unique approach to re-signifying Valle de los Caídos, the deeply controversial burial ground of Franco and 33,000 civil war victims.
Article by Elena Rossoni @ Bnieuws TU Delft, The Netherlands, 5 February 2019
Deep Space: re-signifying Valle de los Caídos is presented on 25 January 2019 at the transmediale in Berlin, Germany.
Lecture & Discussion @ transmediale, Berlin, 3 February 2019
Hybrid Space Lab presents Deep Space the a long-term investigative program initiated to deal with politics of memory, controversial monuments and heritage.
Lecture & Discussion @ TRACES, Politecnico di Milano School of Architecture, via Ampère 2, Milan, 25 January 2019
Interview Future Heritage at DASA Dortmund Future Scenography Conference.
Lecture & Interview Future Heritage @ DASA, Dortmund, Germany, 23-24 January 2019
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
Frans Vogelaar wants to give the Valley of the Fallen in Spain, one of the most controversial places in the world, new meaning.
Article Deep Space @ Het Financieele Dagblad, the Netherlands, January 2019
Valle de los Caídos (Valley of the Fallen), the Francoist monument built between 1940 and 1959 close to Madrid, will soon be emptied of Franco’s remains.
As it risks becoming a cenotaph – an empty burial monument – and it is at the center of heated public discourses surrounding its future, Valle de los Caídos is paradigmatic of the difficult processes of re-signifying controversial monuments.
Newsletter December 2018 @ Hybrid space Lab, Berlin, 15 December 2018
What’s the future like? For professionals in the exhibition business this is a very relevant and difficult problem. Because the future does not give us any objects yet.
Lecture Future Heritage Szenografie Colloquium 2019 @ DASA, Dortmund, Germany, 23-24 January 2019
With the words “Die heiße Asche des Diktators”, the Hot Ashes of the Dictator, in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) of November 1st 2018, journalist Paul Ingendaay captures the toxicity of the highly divisive Francoist Memorial at Valle de los Caídos, as well as the urgency of Hybrid Space Lab’s workshop “Deep Space: Re-signifying Valle de los Caídos”.
Newsletter November 2018 @ Hybrid Space Lab, Berlin, 15 November 2018
The Valley of the Fallen, the shrine of Franco’s dictatorship, is still dividing Spain.
Article The Hot Ashes of the Dictator, Paul Ingendaay @ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 1 November 2018
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
The past summer brought several burning questions to the fore. We hope you had a cool place to ponder over them. Are extreme hot temperatures worldwide the new norm? How fast does the ice melt at 32°? This was the alarming high temperature measured this summer above the Arctic Circle!
Newsletter October 2018 @ Hybrid Space Lab, Berlin, 15 October 2018
In the chapter “The Schlossplatz and the Museum Island in Berlin” Humboldt Volcano is mentioned as the a rethinking of the Humboldt Forum.
Publication The Vienna Hofburg since 1918 @ Institute of Art and Music Historical Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria, 1 October 2018
The etymology of recordar, Spanish for “to remember”, is “to go back to one’s heart”, as memory was once thought to reside there and, even today, processes of memory making are immersed within affective landscapes.
Valle de los Caídos (Valley of the Fallen), the Francoist monument built between 1940 and 1959 close to Madrid, will soon be emptied of Franco’s remains.
As it risks becoming a cenotaph – an empty burial monument – and it is at the center of heated public discourses surrounding its future, Valle de los Caídos is paradigmatic of the difficult processes of re-signifying controversial monuments.
Newsletter September 2018 @ Hybrid Space Lab, Berlin 15 September 2018
The Make City Festival discussed ideas like the Humboldt Volcano at the Humboldt Forum designed by Hybrid Space Lab.
Publication, Susanne Isabel Yacoub @ Garten + Landschaft, Germany, 15 August 2018
On August 25th 2018, the Spanish government approved a decree to exhume Franco’s remains from Valle de los Caídos.
What transformations are needed to re-signify the controversial monument of Valle de los Caídos?
Newsletter August 2018 @ Hybrid Space Lab, Berlin, 15 August 2018
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
Humboldt Volcano was the featured image in the article by TIP Magazine.
Publication, Iris Braun @ TIP, Berlin, 14 June 2018
Anna Yudina joined international experts at the Embassy Lab GREEN TOPIA at the Dutch Embassy, curated by Hybrid Space Lab, as part of the MakeCity festival.
Publication, Sabine Holper @ Der Tagesspiegel, Berlin, 23 June 2018
We are honored that Renate Künast, politician for the Greens and Member of the German Parliament, is opening the Embassy Lab GRÜNtopia.
Lectures & Discussion, Embassy Lab GRÜNtopia, Keynote Renate Künast @ Embassy of Kingdom of the Netherlands, Berlin, 22 June 2018
MakeCity, Berlin’s Festival for Architecture and Urban Alternatives, brings together architects, civic groups and developers to rethink and remake the city.
Discussion Panel @ MakeCity Festivalzentrum, Tschechisches Zentrum, Berlin, 16 June 2018
This is about the utopia of a people-friendly city, Humboldt Volcano as a counterpoint to the Humboldt Forum.
Article @ YEAST, Germany, 15 June 2018
Since yesterday, the MakeCity Festival in Berlin – and it is green!
Publication @ Baunetz, Germany, 15 June 2018
A two‑week program explores how the VOID at the Embassy can become a joyful space for play, dance, lounging, exchange and shared enjoyment.
Opening & Press Conference Public Pop-Up Park @ Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Berlin, 15 June 2018
Reading, Presentation & Discussion Alexander von Humboldt and Humboldt Volcano @ Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, MakeCity Festival, Berlin, 15 June 2018
A bold thought experiment by Hybrid Space Lab: the new Humboldt Forum will become part of a primeval forest.
Publication Rethinking Berlin @ Berliner Kurier, Berlin, 14 June 2018
The architecture festival MakeCity will take place in 2018 under the motto Berlin Remixing | City New Mixed.
Publication, Elena Markus @ Detail, Germany, 14 juni 2018
It must be a notable event when Ada Colau and Sadiq Aman Khan come to Berlin without an invitation from the Governing Mayor.
Publication, Uwe Rada @ TAZ, Berlin, 11 juni 2018
Rüdiger Schaper, culture editor at the Tagesspiegel, presents his Humboldt biography and discusses Hybrid Space Lab’s Humboldt Volcano at MakeCity Studio Talk.
Studio Talk, Reading, Presentation & Discussion @ MakeCity Festival, Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Berlin, 5 June 2018
Hybrid Space Lab is curating Embassy Lab GRÜNtopia which takes place in Berlin on 22 June 2018 and focuses on innovative solutions for integrating green in dense urban situations. Embassy Lab GRÜNtopia is part of the MakeCity Festival 2018.
Newsletter @ Hybrid Space Lab, 1 May 2018
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
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
Hybrid Space Lab co-organized together with the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs The Hague Digital Diplomacy Camp 2018 Un-Conference on February 2nd 2018.
Hybrid Space Lab organized Hybrid Diplomacy Lab “A Reset Button for the Debate over Migration” on January 18th 2018 at the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Hague.
The Swiss architectural magazine “archithese” published Humboldt Jungle on January 16th 2018.
Newsletter @ Hybrid Space Lab, Berlin, 15 April 2018
Recent developments such as Internet of Things, Big Data, and Machine Intelligence have ambition and the potential to algorithmically manage life, including urban nature. These developments in technology and media are supporting the development of a new hybrid architecture where Architecture and Nature fuse: NatureTecture!
Article NatureTecture © Hybrid Space Lab, Berlin, 20 March 2018
Public screening of the documentary “Fabric” at the exhibition “MADE IN GREECE” of the Athens Industrial Gas Museum at the venue INNOVATHENS.
“Fabric” was produced for “documenta 14” that took place in Athens in spring 2017.
The documentary narrates the history of the industrial complex that today houses the Athens School of Fine Arts.
Public Screening Fabric @ Technopolis, Athens, 11 March 2018
Affect Space refers to self-mediated leisure spaces that act as affective backdrops for digital self-activation.
Hybrid Space Lab presents Deep Space in this context.
Lecture & Discussion Affect Space, Transmediale Festival Face Value, @ Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, 4 February 2018
For the opening, Acud Macht Neu invites guests to a panel discussion in its cinema, before DJ sets and concerts begin in the Acud Studio, Club and Max Fish Bar.
The Swiss architectural magazine archithese published Humboldt Jungle as part of the issue on Ruins.
Publication Humboldt Jungle @ archithese, Architecture Magazine, Switzerland, 15 January 2018
Architects and professors Elizabeth Sikiaridi and Frans Vogelaar were invited to envision the Humboldt Forum’s future with two bold designs: Volcano and Jungle.
Lecture & Discussion @ Berlijnse Avonden e.V., Berlin, 6 January 2018
Affect Space explores how public spaces, mobile media, wireless networks, and rising affective exchanges increasingly shape how these environments operate.
Master Classes, Public Interventions, Conferences, Pop-up Exhibitions @ Cool Mediators Foundation, Berlin, Cambridge (MA, USA), The Hague, Madrid, Rotterdam, 2018-2019
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
Urban Garden Kit creates micro‑gardens for Shenzhen Urban Village blocks at Chunjing Street, using a computer gaming platform to enable participation.
Lecture, Workshop & Exhibition @ UABB 2017, Hong Kong & Shenzhen, P.R. China, 16-22 December 2017
The documentary “Fabric” which Hybrid Space Lab made for documenta 14 is part of the archive of Foundation of the Hellenic World and Hellenic Cultural Centre.
Archive Foundation of the Hellenic World @ Hellenic Cosmos Cultural Centre, Athens, 14 December 2017
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
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
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
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
Humboldt Volcano is shortlisted as a candidate for Social Design Award by DER SPIEGEL. The Social Design Award honours special urban development projects.
Social Design Award @ DER SPIEGEL, Germany, 29 September-26 October 2017
Adam Szymczyk, director of documenta 14, refers to the documentary Fabric in the documenta 14 magazine South.
Publication South issue #9, Katerina Koskina, Adam Szymczyk, Domenick Ammirati @ documenta 14, Kassel/Athens, 17 September 2017
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
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
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
Only a few construction projects in Germany are more controversial than the rebuilding of the City Palace in Berlin. With a bold plan, the Dutch professor Frans Vogelaar knows how to break the stuck debate.In the heart of Berlin one of the most controversial buildings of the moment stands out: the rebuilding of the Berliner Stadtschloss.
Publication, Bertus Bouman @ duitslandnieuws.nl, Berlin, 15 September 2017
Rüdiger Schaper, head of the cultural section of the German newspaper Der Tagesspiegel presents the Humboldt Volcano in an article entitled “Welcome to the Jungle – rescheduling is not forbidden, there is still time. The article, which gives an overview of the current discussion about the Humboldt Forum, is illustrated with a large-scale image of Humboldt Volcano. Humboldt Volcano acts as a symbol and icon for a better Humboldt Forum.
Publication Rüdiger Schaper @ Der Tagesspiegel, Berlin, 1 September 2017
In Deutsche Bauzeitung the author Bernhard Schulz, who is editor in the culture edition of Tagesspiegel Berlin publishes an article on the reconstruction of the Berlin City Palace.
The article also refers to Humboldt Volcano.
Article Fake Architecture, Bernhard Schulz @ DB Deutsche Bauzeitung, Germany, 1 September 2017
Improving life in Athens requires thoughtful investment and realistic proposals. Poly Garden City is a project for Athens, which incorporates green on a wide variety of hard surfaces of buildings, creating gardens and helping to change the microclimate.
Article Poly Garden City, Nikos Vatopoulos @ Kathimerini Newspaper, Greece, 29 June 2017
The American School of Classical Studies in Athens has archived Hybrid Space Lab’s documentary “Fabric” which was made for the documenta 14.
Archive American School of Classical Studies @ Gennadius Library, Athens, 25 May 2017
Research on Athens’ historic Rex cinema‑theatre complex for the documentary “Fabric,” screened in the Athens School of Fine Arts during documenta 14.
Article Rex, Nikos Vatopoulos @ Kathimerini Newspaper, Greece, 18 May 2017
Article Rex, Nikos Vatopoulos @ ekathimerini Newspaper, Greece, Website, 11 June 2017
NatureTecture proposes how Internet of Things will merge with green structures in the city.
With the Internet of Things, Big Data and Machine Intelligence algorithmically organizing life, society, work and industry, the only question that remains is what will happen with nature. The accelerating developments in nature, bio-technology, technology and architecture are creating a new hybrid architecture.
Lecture & Discussion NatureTecture @ V2 Institute for Unstable Media, Rotterdam, 9 April 2017
Fabric, by Hybrid Space Lab, is screened at the “Old Library” space of the Athens School of Fine Arts during documenta 14.
Screening Fabric @ documenta 14, Academy of Fine Arts, Athens, 8 April – 17 July 2017
Publication Fabric, Nikos Vatopoulos @ Kathimerini Newspaper, Greece, 28 April 2017
Publication Fabric, Chara Papadimitriou @ Punta Grecia, Greece, 10 May 2017
Publication Fabric, Nikos Vatopoulos @ ekathimerini Newspaper, Greece, 11 May 2017
Fabric is a documentary film and exhibition on the history of the buildings of the former textile factory which now houses the Athens School of Fine Arts. Fabric is shown at the documenta 14 in the Former Library at the Athens School of Fine Arts.
8 April–17 September 2017.
Hybrid Space Lab hosted a Think Tank Dinner with experts on urban development and creative city professionals from Amsterdam and Berlin.
Discussions & Dinner City of Amsterdam @ City of Berlin @ Hybrid Space Lab, Berlin, 13 March 2017
Soft Urbanism is a new interdisciplinary field of design and planning.
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
In Berlin, revivals of historic symbols and contemporary ideas on the transnational cultural development tie into the under construction Humboldt Forum.
Publication Green Emperor made in Greece, Nikos Vatopulos @ Kathimerini Greek Newspaper, 24 January 2017
Humboldt Volcano and Humboldt Jungle by Hybrid Space Lab are part of the exhibition “Palace.City.Berlin.” in Ephraim Palais in Berlin.
Exhibition Humboldt Forum Future Palace.City.Berlin. @ Ephraim Palace, Berlin, 25 November 2016-23 April 2017
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
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
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
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
新科技及其将对未来人类命运和社会所带来的乐观预言充斥着我们的公共话语领域,其将我们置身于“新科技神学”的神秘咒语的同时,也使我们遭受到了一场想象力的围攻。
此系列话语不仅紧迫而且嘈杂,并强行掠夺我们的思想空间。除了对科学技术所带来的影响做出应急反应之外,我们似乎无暇对其进行必要的“认识论”的沉思与反省。
物理学家理查德·费曼指出我们人类认识世界的辩证二分法:由概念(认识论)或由工具(科学技术)驱动,“如果我们人类的探索和发现是由‘概念’所驱动,那我们则趋于用新的角度解释旧的东西;如果是被‘工具’所驱动,我们将会(用老的看法)解释我们的新发现与新创造出来的东西。
展览 北京媒体艺术双年展 @ 中国世纪坛, 北京, 2016年9月24日- 2016年10月30日
讲座 讲习班 @ 北京国际设计周 2016, 中央美院美术, 北京, 2016年9月30日
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
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
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
How to rebuild a city in the 21st century as global temperatures are rising?
Poly Garden City offers a sustainable green approach for the rebuilding of cities in Syria.
Discussion Strategies to Rebuild Aleppo @ Deutsches Architekturzentrum DAZ, Berlin, 22 April 2016
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
Berliners, do you want this fairy tale castle?
Berliner Kurier, the Berlin newspaper, publishes an article by Stefanie Hildebrandt on Humboldt Jungle.
Publication Berliners, do you want this fairy tale castle? Stefanie Hildebrandt @ Berliner Kurier, 20 February 2016
DIE ZEIT, the German weekly newspaper publishes an article by Dr. Werner Bloch on Humboldt Dschungel.
Berlin discusses a big idea: the Humboldt Dschungel.
It is the idea to elicit from the bold cultural monster, the Humboldt Forum, something more playful, rampant, outlandish…Is Humboldt Dschungel the better Humboldt Forum?
Publication Is this the rescue?, Dr. Werner Bloch @ DIE ZEIT, Nr. 9/2016, Germany, 18 February 2016
Berlin diskutiert über eine große Idee: Den Humboldt Dschungel.
Es ist die Idee, dem so trotzig dastehenden Kulturmonstrum [des Humboldtforums] etwas Verspieltes, Wucherndes, Verrücktes zu entlocken…
Ist der Humboldt Dschungel das bessere Humboldt Forum?
Publikation Ist das die Rettung? Dr. Werner Bloch @ DIE ZEIT, Nr. 9/2016, 18 Februar 2016
German radio presents interviews and discussions on Hybrid Space Lab’s Humboldt Jungle proposal for the future of the Humboldt Forum in Berlin.
Interview, Dr. Werner Bloch @ MDR Figaro, WDR3, Deutschlandfunk, Ö1 ORF1, Germany & Austria, 10, 11, 18 February 2016
Discussion @ SWR2 Wissensmagazin, Germany, 11 February 2016
Discussion @ NDR3 Journal, Germany, 11 February 2016
Discussion @ SR2 Kulturmagazin Länge Sieben, Germany, 11 February 2016
Discussion Greening of the facade is “absurd idea” @ Deutschlandradio Kultur, Germany, 15 February 2016
Discussion Wilhelm von Boddien & Elizabeth Sikiaridi on the Humboldt Jungle @ Deutschlandradio Kultur, Germany, 19 February 2016
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
The Humboldt Jungle project team: Uta Belkius, Hybrid Space Lab (Prof. Elizabeth Sikiaridi, Prof. Frans Vogelaar) and Notker Schweikhardt invited Berlin experts from the Kulturpolitische Gesellschaft, the Chamber of Architects, the Association of Landscape Architects, the WWF, and various foundations to discuss and promote the Humboldt Jungle project—the (temporary) greening of the facade of the Humboldt Forum.
Andreas Krüger from the Belius Foundation, which also supports the project, hosted the evening.
Lecture by Prof. Elizabeth Sikiaridi & Prof. Frans Vogelaar @ @ GRÜN.kulturell, Alte Tankstelle, Berlin, 29 January 2016
Wie retten wir das Humboldt Forum?
In Kultur und Politik beteiligten Experten diskutieren Humboldt Dschungel.
Vorträge, Diskussion & Dinner @ Alte Tankstelle, Bülowstraße 18, Berlin, 29 Januar 2016
Subject to the exponential technological acceleration, challenged by alarming ecologic and social changes design’s role in 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
With an increasing demand for mobility, infrastructure and communal services the challenge is climate protection.
Prof. Frans Vogelaar @ Climate Protection Urban Growth Conference, EUREF Campus, Berlin, 24 November 2015
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
The Cooperative for Urban Creativity, Mörchenpark eV, Pakhuis de Zwijger and New Europe host the “Players of Change” conference on 10 October 2015 at Holzmarkt.
Conference Cities in Transition @ Mörchenpark, Holzmarktstrasse 25, Berlin, 10 October 2015
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 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 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
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
Already existing and financed facade parts will be assembled and all still open areas of the facade of the Humboldt Forum will be planted with botanically exciting greenery and successively added to later.
Such a design, the Humboldt Jungle, not only visualises the interdisciplinary approach of the Humboldt brothers.
Expert Meeting Politics meets culture: ANAlyseS, ideaS, CoNcePts @ GRÜN.kulturell Kulturcontainer, Berlin, 9 July 2015
A press, publications, web, radio overview on Hybrid Space Lab’s “Humboldt Jungle” project from 2015-2025.
Awareness Campaign Humboldt Jungle @ Press, Germany & International, 2015-2025
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
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
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
Panel discussion on the Greek Slow Food movement curated by Hybrid Space Lab and Markthalle Neun in Berlin on July 17 2015.
Discussion Greek Food Culture Today @ Markthalle Neun, Berlin, 17 July 2015
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
Museum of Modern Art; a gift with consequences. What does Berlin need from the Cultural Forum?
Expert meeting Politics meets culture: ANAlyseS, ideaS, CoNcePts @ GRÜN.kulturell Kulturcontainer, Berlin, 20 May 2015
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
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
International Internet of Things Day Rotterdam explores the concept of IoT and implications for society.
Technology and data will merge with physical objects and structures in the city and alter our city experience. In all domains, whether healthcare, waste management, shopping, public transport or education and social life, IoT will influence our cities.
Lecture Internet of Things @ V2 Institute for Unstable Media, Rotterdam, 9 April 2015
Queen Máxima of the Netherlands joins the workshop “Intelligent Mobility in the City” during her working visit to Hamburg on March 20, 2015.
Workshop Intelligent Mobility, Queen Máxima of the Netherlands @ Intelligent Mobility in the City, Delta Cities, Hamburg, 20 March 2015
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
Greek lifestyle magazine Lifo published article on Hybrid Space Lab’s workshop on the revision of the “hated” Athenian apartment buildings.
Article by Dimitris Kyriazis @ Lifo, Athens, 14 January 2015
Rethinking le Corbusiers Domino House.
Interview, Dimitris Kyriazis @ Lifo Magazine, Greece, 14 Januari 2015, 14 Januari 2015
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
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
Internet of Things Conference: at the intersection of technology and the built environment.
Publication, Paul van den Bergh @ Archined, The Netherlands, 21 May 2014
The lecture Hybridnet & Industry 4.0 will be streamed from the Hannover Messe 2014 and will take place at the Holland Smart City House in the TV studio, Halle 16, Metropolitan Solutions.
Lecture @ Hannover Messe, Metropolitan Solutions Conference Berlin, 9 April 2014
Lecture @ Internet of Things Conference Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 9 April 2014
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
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
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
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
Interview with Hybrid Space Lab by the STRELKA Institute in Moscow for the Future Urbanism project – forty one interviews with contemporary writers, architects, sociologists, economists and city planners“Future Urbanism” project.Together with our interlocutors we searched for evidence, we questioned facts, we extrapolated from past discoveries, we speculated about hidden patterns, we looked for clues at a messy and distorted “crime scene” that is contemporary city, in order to find answers to the whole range of unsettling questions.
Interview Future Urbanism @ Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design, Moscow, 15 December 2013
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
Exhibition at the Triennale di Milano reflecting on the themes of mobility, of living and working and imagining how energy research , new materials and ICT technologies will shape our daily over the next 20 years.
Exhibition Mobility Living Working @ Triennale di Milano, Milan, 9 October – 22 December 2013
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
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
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
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
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” 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’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
The Nederlands Architectuurinstituut (NAi) has established a reputation as a center for all aspects of architecture in the Netherlands and as the largest architectural center in the world.
But the golden times are over, the current savings policy forces to rethink.
The NAi had to merge with two other institutions and is now going new ways together with these partners into the Nieuwe Instituut.
Publication The New Institute @ Deutsche Bauzeitung, Germany, 3 June 2013
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 Copy/Culture Symposium İstanbul, presented by Premsela, the Netherlands Institute for Design and Fashion in cooperation with SALT examines the implications of copying, open source and sampling on the design trade and profession. Talks by Fulco Blokhuis, Aslı Kıyak İngin, Geert Jan Jansen, Tomas Klassnik, Elizabeth Sikiaridi, Tim Vermeulen, Fei Wang and Atilla Yücel.
Lecture Symposium Copying Open Source Sampling @ SALT, Premsela, the Netherlands Institute for Design and Fashion, Instanbul, 28 April 2012
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
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
The international travelling exhibition presents a broad spectrum of themes in landscape architecture. It focuses on areas of the profession poised to gain international importance, illustrating the tasks and techniques of landscape design in the post-industrial age.
The exhibition provides a wealth of knowledge about landscape architecture and features examples from Germany’s North Rhine-Westphalia.
An international travelling exhibition on the working fields of landscape architecture by the Chamber of Architects of North Rhine-Westphalia with the support of the Ministry for Building and Transport of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia.
Opening Lecture NatureTecture: Sustainable Development of the Cityscape, Prof. Elizabeth Sikiaridi, 2 December 2011
Exhibition NatureTecture @ Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Seoul National University, 2-9 December 2011
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
Electric vehicles are regarded primarily as regards sustainability, ie as a vehicle to support the entry into the post-fossil age.
At the same time, the introduction of the new electro-powered motors opens up opportunities for the redefinition of the car with far-reaching consequences: the car is shrinking – and the public space of the city can grow again.
Publication Shrinking Car City @ Deutsche Bauzeitung, Germany, 1 February 2011
Publication Shrinking Car City @ GermanArchitects, Germany, 11 May 2011
The exhibition “ NatureTecture ” by the Chamber of Architects of North Rhine-Westphalia on the development of landscape architecture in Europe was on display in Istanbul until mid-December 2010.
On November 26, 2010, AKNW Vice President Dr. Christian Schramm and the President of the Istanbul Chamber of Architects, Prof. Deniz lncedayi, opened the exhibition in the European Capital of Culture 2010 in front of around 200 Turkish architects, landscape architects, interior designers and urban planners.
Publication NatureTecture @ Deutsches Architektenblatt, Germany, 1 February 2010
Electric vehicles mark a shift toward post‑fossil sustainability, while new electric motors enable a redefined, smaller car—allowing urban public space to grow.
Publication Reconquest of the City @ ZENO, Germany, 1 January 2011
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
Exhibition “NatureTecture” by the Chamber of Architects NRW shows how landscapes evolved over centuries and the challenges facing today’s landscape architects.
Publication NatureTecture@ Deutsches Architektenblatt, Germany, 1 March 2010
Hybrid Space is the superimposition and layering of physical, informational and media infrastructures, and social, cultural and economic flows.
Hybrid Space is the fusion of Physical and Digital Space.
Lecture Hybrid Space @ Conference Poetics of Space, Sonic Acts 2010, Amsterdam, 26 February 2010
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 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
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
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
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 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
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
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 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
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 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
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
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
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
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
Strukturwandel als Herausforderung
Axel Schuch stellt Fragen.
Elizabeth Sikiaridi antwortet.
Veröffentlichung & Interview Strukturwandel, Axel Schuch @ Wirschaftjahrbuch, Deutschland, 1 Mai 2006
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 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
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
Workshop in Zusammenarbeit mit der TU Berlin, der TU Kaiserslautern und der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, herausgegeben von der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar (European Urban Studies).
Workshop & Veröffentlichung Industrial Succession Landscapes @ Bauhaus Universität Weimar, Germany, 17 February 2006
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
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
Die Architektin Elizabeth Sikiaridi, Professorin an der Universität Duisburg-Essen, befasst sich in Forschung und Lehre mit den Auswirkungen der Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien auf das Wohnen und Arbeiten.
Im Gespräch nimmt sie Stellung zu Chancen und Risiken von Smart-Home-Anwendungen.
Veröffentlichung Smart Home @ Die Wohnungswirtschaft, Deutschland, 1 Oktober 2005
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 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
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
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® 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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The conference A2B is an initiative of architect Jacques Herzog. This year’s exhibition “We are building the future for you” was presented by the prominent lecturers as designers of the future. International luminaries of architecture in real space like Toyo Ito were placed alongside pioneers of virtual architecture: Elizabeth Sikiaridi explained the term ‘idensity’, which has already been protected by her, which describes the density of media and urban networks and the fusion of virtual and real spaces.
Publication Architecture in the Information Age, Francesca Ferguson @ entourage, Switzerland, January 2002
Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001), who was originally trained as an engineer and was working as an architect in the office of Le Corbusier and who later was to become an internationally known composer, designs in co-authorship with Le Corbusier the “vessel containing the poem”, the shell structure of the Philips Pavilion.
Publication Iannis Xenakis @ Werk Bauen Wohnen, Germany, November 2001
“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
Hybrid Space develops scenarios for the interplay of public urban and public media space.
Publication Idensity® @ Kunst NRW-NL, Amsterdam, 8 October 1999
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
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
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
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
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
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
Explanatory report on the competition entry Deutsche Bundesbank in Frankfurt.
1st prize: Behnisch & Partner, Stuttgart
Collaborators: Elisabeth Sikiaridi, Matthias Tusker, Peter Schmal, Falk Petry, Susanne Dexling, Dieter Lachenmann
Deutsche Bundesbank @ Baumeister BBK, Germany, 1 September 1998
The first mayor work built by Office for Metropolitan Architecture is the Netherlands Dance Theatre in The Hague.
Publication Nederlands Dans Theater @ Domus, Magazine for Architecture, Design and Art, Italy, 1 May 1989
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
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
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
Telecommunications lack physical space, yet cities must absorb digital layers. The key question is how networks and urban life shape one another.
Article Network Architecture, Ed van Hinte @ Items #6, The Netherlands, 20 September 1995
Doors of Perception is an annual conference, and a programme of workshops, seminars and pilot projects, organised by the Netherlands Design Institute in Amsterdam. Doors of Perception seeks answers to the question: what are multimedia and global networks actually for? Doors of Perception generates scenarios about future applications of new technology and enhance the development of multimedia and online environments by bringing together previously unconnected knowledge and skills.
Lecture Hybrid Space @ Doors of Perception Conference, Dutch Design Institute Premsela, RAI Convention Centre, Amsterdam, 4-6 November 1994
Often, comparisons, parallels to landscape, are drawn to nature in the work of Behnisch & Partner. The architectural ensemble is perceived as a continuation of the landscape.
Publication the Work of Behnisch & Partner, Elizabeth Sikiaridi @ ARCH+, Germany, 1 September 1994
A colossal De Klerk, complex dream-pictures in wood or a monkey with a transistor radio and a bright pink rear end. Rotterdam’s Museum of Ethnology is showing some 30 sculptures by South African Venda artists in a remarkable display. ‘If there is one general characteristic to be given to contemporary African art, it is an unstoppable narrative drive.’
Publication The storytelling art of the Venda, Paul Faber @ Museum magazine Vitrine, Rotterdam 1 August 1994
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
A public interface “Media Baby” that seduces to use and abuse the television medium, maximizing its possible spontaneity by hijacking the public’s imagination.
Demand your Right to Broadcast! @ Architectural Association, Architectural Association School of Architecture, 34-36 Bedford Square, London, 24 July 1991
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
Publication on the competition entry Deutsche Bundesbank in Frankfurt by Behnisch & Partner, Stuttgart.
Deutsche Bundesbank @ A+U Architecture Magazine, Japan, 1 May 1990
During construction of the German Parliament in Bonn, Helmut Newton photographs Chancellor Helmuth Kohl, as Elisabeth Sikiaridi simultaneously captures both men.
Photograph of Helmuth Kohl & Elisabeth Sikiaridi @ Helmuth Newton, Bonn, Germany, Summer 1990
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
The Netherlands has a new design prize: the Frans Halle Prize for exhibition design.
Frans Hals Prize Exhibitiondesign @ Items #8, Magazine for Design, Visual Communication and Architecture, 1 September 1988
Frans Vogelaar produced a magnificent and dazzling scale model that, if executed, would have had an overwhelming and disconcerting effect on the visitor.
Publication Frans Hals Prize for Exhibition Design, Carel Kuitenbrouwer @ NRC Handelsblad, Rotterdam, 14 September 1988
Uruba exhibition, featuring traditional fabrics and clothing, by Ahmadu Bello University with Lagos’s Culture Ministry and shown at the Commonwealth Institute.
Publication Uruba, Saskia de Bodt @ NRC Handelsblad, 29 Januari 1985
House for Juliet is Alessandro Mendini’s intervention in a building long linked to the Capulets’ palace, according to legend and partial historical evidence.
Design & Exhibition, House for Juliet, Studio Alchimia @ Achille Forti Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art, Via Cappello, Verona, Italy, 8 June-30 September 1982
You don’t really know what design is anymore, and talking about design, happy or unhappy, fails you; rock has saved your life.
Exhibition & Publication on Studio Alchimia, Stefano Casciani @ Nuove Intenzioni del Design, Reggio Emilia, Italy, 18 April 1982