In our time of the Anthropocene, the juxtaposition between nature versus artifact and designed environment is becoming obsolete.
In the dissolution of this polarity lays a great chance: architecture (which in the allegorical depiction of the Vitruvian Primitive Hut by Marc-Antoine Laugier and Charles Eisen of 1753 had emerged from nature) merges with nature once again.
Urban climate adaptation, Sponge City, green corridors and building greening helps Athens become resilient, improves life quality and boosts biodiversity.
Consultancy Cool Down Cities @ Municipality of Athens, Deputy Mayor of Athens for Climate Governance and Social Economy Nikos Chrysogelos, Athens 25 August 2024
Ecological transition demands a paradigm shift: integrating diverse knowledges, including those shaping the Global South yet dismissed in the Global North.
Labs & Fests @ Glocal, 2023~2026
Circular cities dominate sustainable urban futures—yet a closer look reveals ripples and loops of complexity that envisioning, let alone developing, such cities truly entails.
Presentation & Workshop Cities in the Loop: Re-coding the Circular City @ Hybrid Space Lab, Berlin, 1 July 2022
Presentation & Workshop zirkularKIEZ @ Bits & Bäume 2022 Conference for Digitization and Sustainability, Technical University Berlin, 2 October 2022
Convers(at)ions creatively engages with border phenomenology and performativity, transforming military demarcations through a more‑than‑human view and activating nature’s potential.
Research, Lectures & Discussions @ Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) & European Green Belt (EGB), Berlin & Seoul, October 2019~2023
ReWild Autobahn proposes a natural‑artificial landscape on a dismantled Berlin highway, creating a green corridor that supports humans and non‑humans alike.
Exhibition ReWild Autobahn @ BDA Gallery, Association of German Architects Berlin, Berlin, 6 October – 26 November 2021
Publication Berlin Atlas @ BauNetz, Berlin, 19 November 2021
We developed Co‑Creating Hybrid Culture for the German Federal Cultural Foundation, augmenting cultural practices through digital spaces and co‑creative events.
Keynote Future Cultural Space @ Kulturstiftung des Bundes, HoloLab – dive in Program for Digital Interaction, Halle an der Saale, Germany, 16.00 – 17.00, 22 September 2021
Research & Concept @ German Federal Cultural Foundation, Halle an der Saale, Germany, 2021
Grow Your Green City promotes the idea of a climate‑conscious Smart City, exploring how digital and media technologies support urban climate adaptation.
Workshop Grow Your Green City @ Floriade Expo 2022, Almere, The Netherlands, 25 February 2021
In the Anthropocene, the juxtaposition between nature versus artifact and designed environment is becoming obsolete. In the dissolution of this polarity lays a great chance: architecture (which in the allegorical depiction of the Vitruvian Primitive Hut by Marc-Antoine Laugier and Charles Eisen of 1753 had emerged from nature) merges with nature once again.
Architecture G AI A @ de Waag Technology & Society, Amsterdam, 2019-2020
Human settlements have always been dependent upon access to clean water and its relative scarcity – freshwater makes up only 2.5% of water available on earth.
Embassy Lab Water Conscious Fashion, @ Neonyt, Kraftwerk Berlin, 16 January 2019
Green spaces are essential for the quality of life, wellbeing, and health of urban populations.
Lectures & Discussions Embassy Lab GRÜNtopia @ Embassy of Kingdom of the Netherlands , Berlin, 22 June 2018
Keynote Renate Künast, Bündnis 90/Die Grünen @ Embassy of Kingdom of the Netherlands , Berlin, 22 June 2018
GRÜNMANIA decorates the pavilion front, shifting GERMANIA’s letters to invert meaning and recast the pavilion as a shared space for tackling global challenges.
Concept German Pavilion @ Venice Architecture Biennial 2018, Italy, 1 May 2017
Recent developments such as Internet of Things, Big Data and Machine Intelligence will algorithmically organize life, including urban nature.
Lecture NatureTecture @ V2 Institute for Unstable Media, Rotterdam, 9 April 2017
Our current geological age is described as the Anthropocene, an epoch in which human activity dominates climate and environmental change.
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
A vertical jungle in a greenhouse pavilion clings to the Berlin Humboldt Forum. A trail leads from the underground to the roof of the Humboldt Forum, opening up stacked gardens and pop-up restaurants dedicated respectively to world flora and world cuisines.
Circular Economy spans technical and biological cycles, to keep materials and products at their highest utility and value throughout the up‑cycling process.
Research Embassy Lab Circular Economy @ Kingdom of The Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Hague, 18 March 2016
Poly Garden City drives climate adaptation in Athens by merging buildings and gardens into hybrid urban forms and reinterpreting modernist heritage.
Research & Urban Design @ City of Athens, 5 April 2015
A jungle for the Humboldt Forum!
The Berlin Humboldt Forum, named after the Humboldt brothers, will become a world center for culture and is housed in the reconstruction of a historical palace.
Hybrid Space Lab designed Humboldt Jungle a hanging garden with lianas overgrowing the Prussian palace and a tropical forest for its roof.
Research & Design Humboldt Jungle @ Humboldt Forum, Berlin, 2016-2017
Rethinking design to meet future needs in an increasingly service‑ and knowledge‑based society and economy.
Research @ Dutch Design Foundation, Premsela Stichting, Amsterdam, 15 June 2015
A workshop on revitalizing Greece’s modern “polykatoikies” was organized by Athens Municipality and curated by Hybrid Space Lab within Co‑Creating Athens.
Lectures & Workshop Rebooting Athens @ Co-Creating the City, City of Athens, 14 December 2014
Co-Creating Athens is a field trip for international city-makers to visit and exchange with Athens urban initiatives.
Lectures & Workshop Incubator City @ City of Athens, 13 December 2014
Lectures & Workshop Workshop Co-Creating the City @ City of Athens & Pakhuis de Zwijger, Athens, 10-13 December 2014
Architecture’s dimensional loss is felt in daily office survival, in training new generations, and in a discourse marked by growing perplexity and crisis.
Publication Landscape BOTOX @ Stadt+Grün, Germany, September 2006
[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
Founded in Milan in 1976 by Alessandro and his sister Adriana Guerriero Studio Alchimia revolutionised design worldwide.
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
June 23rd 2025, a very hot day, in the courtyard of Fondazione Prada in Milan; Alessandro Guerriero is assisted by Marta Di Domizio as his English translator; interviewers are 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 global design, breaking with functionalism in the late 1970s. Frans Vogelaar was part of the group during 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 partner network works on strategies and solutions that can make the 2020s a decade of progress.
Progressive Governance Summit 2024 has gathered leading as well as up-and-coming public intellectuals, impactful activists and political decision-makers from around the globe.
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
Workshop and presentation of circulariCITY at the Bits & Bäume 2022 Conference.
Bits & Bäume connect communities and stand up for political change in the interaction of digitalisation and sustainability.
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
We need a fresh, radically innovative and solutions-oriented approach to address the various forms of contested heritage sites in a way that is fit for the 21st century.
Article on Hybrid Space Lab’s work on contested monuments, is published in Italy.
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 undoubtedly most important question for contemporary cultural identity: the relationship between tradition and innovation. Their idea of a growing green world around the castle is the portrayal of the idea of tradition as a dynamic phenomenon.
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?
In the article “Without Franco, what to do with the colossal Valle de los Caídos?” for HuffPost, Anthony Berthelier describes the project “Deep Space: re-signifying Valle de los Caídos” with its creative approach for addressing controversial history and contested heritage.
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
The challenges of digital transformation are becoming more and more tangible in the daily lives of Berliners. There is an increasing need to get involved and take the city’s digital future into its one’s own hands. From 2019 Berlin will develop a digital strategy in which goals for the digital future of the capital are to be formulated.
Workshop Kiez Lab @ Bündnis Digitale Stadt Berlin, Germany, 2019~2020
The main Berlin newspaper Der Tagesspiegel, published an article on the Green party questions on the implementation of the Humboldt Jungle raised in the Bundestag, the German parliament.
“And in order to honor their name, the Greens asked for the “state of the considerations (…), a greenery, a so-called Humboldt Jungle, to be installed”. The brief reply: “Further measures on the facades are not provided.”
Publication Humboldt costs, yes and no @ Der Tagesspiegel, Germany, 19 July 2019
The Valley of the Fallen is a large memorial erected near Madrid in the mountain range of the Sierra de Guadarrama on the initiative of the dictator Francisco Franco. It is dedicated to the fallen of the Spanish Civil War. Within the scope of the project “Deep Space” it is proposed to transform the monument by digital means.
Publication From Monument to Memorial@ Magazine for Architecture and City Marlowes, Germany, 16 Juli 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.
Presentations & Discussion City to Go @ Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, 15 July 2019, Berlin
Instead of creating a gap in this highly symbolic place, the international think tank Hybrid Space Lab represents the impetus to explore alternative memory narratives to the previously totalitarian narrative of the Valle de los Caídos.
Article Romanistik Blog @ State and University Library Hamburg Carl von Ossietzky, Hamburg, 8 July 2019
One of the “questions” concerning the Humboldt Forum that the German Green Party (Fraktion BÜNDNIS 90/DIE GRÜNEN) put before the German Parliament, the “Deutscher Bundestag” on 2 July 2019 was:
Question 22: “What is the current state of the considerations on the part of the Federal Government for the greening of the facades, to install a so-called Humboldt Jungle?”
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 approved unanimously the exhumation of the former dictator Franco from the underground basilica of Valle de los Caídos mausoleum. Hybrid Space Lab’s project “Deep Space: Re-signifying Valle de los Caídos” investigating what transformations are still needed at the Valle de los Caídos so as not to create a cenotaph – an empty burial monument – is becoming increasingly urgent.
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
“What happens when an object loses its original purpose? Why does architecture find itself displaced, unwanted and repurposed?
Buildings and physical infrastructure possess a longue durée that is fundamental to their spatial and political impact.
But their long-term pretension can also become their undoing: politics, society, media and culture change faster than bricks and concrete.
Structures can usually adjust only in very expensive ways: with renovation or destruction.
History leaves behind either heritage or rubble, both a sort of an architectural ‘living dead’.
Lecture @ NONUMENT! Symposium, Prague, 14 June 2019
Article “We come for the place, not for Franco “: El Valle de los Caídos, a tourist site almost like the others” by journalist Juliette Campion, France Televisions.
Publication, Juliette Campion @ France TV Info, Paris, 10 June 2019
Deep Space is an international project to re-think the burial site of former dictator Franco.Deep Space, presented at the Goethe Institut in Madrid, uses augmented reality to change the totalitarian nature of the Spanish Civil War monument the Valley of the Fallen.
Publication, Peio H. Riaño @ El País, Madrid, 6 June 2019
By means of creativity, Hybrid Space Lab’s approach paves the way towards a more integrated, collective processes of memory- and meaning-making.
Bringing creativity into controversial situations informs engagement with contentious landscapes, negotiation 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 space installation, lecture and panel discussion together with Miquel Gonzalez, Photographer, Emilio Silva, Journalist, Prof. Gutmaro Gomez Bravo and Hybrid Space Lab at the Goethe Institut in Madrid.
Opening, Exhibition, Lecture & Discussion Lost Memory – Recovered Memory, Deep Space @ Goethe Institut, Madrid, 5 June 2019
Hybrid Space Lab unleashed and subsequently curated a heated discourse around this utopian proposition. The combination of tabloid-friendly imagery with international expertise on greening cities and climate change proved to be 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
At the Art Museum of China the exhibition space will be transformed into a creative laboratory, an interdisciplinary platform co-developed by international artists, creative thinkers, independent scholars, urban planners and stakeholders. It is a union, a mini co-op city inside a skyscraper.
Exhibition GreenTopia @ Art Museum of China, Greater Bay Area, Shenzhen, P.R. China, 15 March-15 April 2019
City Making in the Digital Age is the kick-off event of City Making Lab, a co-operation between Hybrid Space Lab and Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society.Keynote speaker Marleen Stikker, co-founder of Waag Society, an Amsterdam based interdisciplinary non-profit media lab and research institute that aims to put social values at the core of technology by creating and promoting open, fair and inclusive innovations.
Keynote by Marleen Stikker , co-founder of Waag Society @ City Making in the Digital Age, Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, Berlin, 21 February 2019
The documentary “Fabric” that Hybrid Space Lab produced for “documenta 14” in 2017 and that narrates a Middle Eastern family story as well as the history of the industrial complex that today houses the Athens School of Fine Arts is part of major 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
Issues like disinformation, AI and the civic impact of digital technology have only become more contentious, particularly in Europe, Brexit on the horizon, European elections looming, the rise of China as a technological superpower and continuing security challenges on the continent’s eastern and southern flanks, Europe’s diplomats need to grasp the opportunities and threats of digital technology now, more than ever.
Lecture & Workshop @ Permanent Representation of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the European Union, Brussels, 7 February 2019
Working on places of conflict can be extremely challenging.Architecture practice Hybrid Space Lab takes a rather unique approach for the re-signification of the controversial site of Valle de los Caídos in Madrid, the burial ground of Spain’s dictator Francisco Franco and 33,000 victims of the country’s brutal civil war.
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
TRACES is a three-year research project investigating the role of contentious heritage in contemporary Europe.
By deploying an innovative research methodology based on an artistic/ethnographic approach, TRACES analyses challenges, opportunities and practices inherent in transmitting difficult pasts and heritages.
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
Future is en vogue.
In 2018, she delivered the motto of the science year “Working Worlds of the Future”.
Daily, the media discusses the extent to which robots intervene in our everyday lives and what the progressive digitization is doing to us. And even exhibitions are not excluded from this.
Lecture Future Heritage @ DASA, Dortmund, Germany, 23-24 January 2019
An initiative of the 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. How does the founder of the Berlin design lab and think tank Hybrid Space Lab think to do that with use of digital technology?
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.
With the words “Die heiße Asche des Diktators”, 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.
Article The Hot Ashes of the Dictator, Paul Ingendaay @ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 1 November 2018
Catalan journalist Sílvia Marimon Molas describes in her article “The Gaze of European Experts” in the Catalan newspaper ARA on 31st October 2018 the workshop “Deep Space: Re-signifying Valle de los Caídos” participants’ visit to the site and the necessity of a change of the monument’s narrative.
Publication The Gaze of European Experts, Sílvia Marimon @ ARA Catalonia, Spain, 31 October 2018
“Deep Space: re-signifying Valle de los Caídos” is a workshop at the Medialab Prado in Madrid from 25 till 27 October 2018 in Madrid. Hybrid Space Lab is co-organizing an international conference and executing workshops with public interventions and pop-up exhibitions in Berlin at the transmediale and in Rotterdam at the New Institute in 2019.
Workshop”Deep Space: re-signifying Valle de los Caídos”, @ Medialab Prado in Madrid, 25-27 October 2018
Lecture, @ TRACES in Milan, January 2019
Lecture, @ transmediale in Berlin, February 2019
Films, Talks, Discussions, Installation, Event @ Goethe Institut Madrid 6 May 2019
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 “International Developments; The Schlossplatz and the Museum Island in Berlin” Humboldt Volcano is mentioned as the example of the 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
How is Berlin becoming a socially just smart city?
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
Berlin urgently needs new ideas, impulses and visions.
Humboldt Volcano was the featured image in the article by TIP Magazine.
Publication, Iris Braun @ TIP, Berlin, 14 June 2018
Among other international experts, Anna Yudina was invited to attend the “Embassy Lab GREEN TOPIA” at the Dutch Embassy, where Elizabeth Sikiaridi and Frans Vogelaar of Hybrid Space Lab invited to the event, which is part of the international festival “MakeCity”.
Publication, Sabine Holper @ Der Tagesspiegel, Berlin, 23 June 2018
We are very honored that Renate Künast, politician for the Bündnis 90/Die Grünen and Member of the German Parliament is opening Embassy Lab GRÜNtopia.
Green spaces are essential for the quality of life, wellbeing, and health of urban populations.
Today, the focus on and interest in green urban spaces is increasing thanks to initiatives working toward Healthy Cities, environmental justice, food security, and strengthening local communities.
Lectures & Discussion, Embassy Lab GRÜNtopia, Keynote Renate Künast @ Embassy of Kingdom of the Netherlands, Berlin, 22 June 2018
We are honored to join Sir Peter Cook, architect and writer, founder of Archigram, we will present GRÜNtopia.
MakeCity the Festival for Architecture and Urban Alternatives in Berlin brings together architect, planners, civic groups and developers in a citywide conversation on thinking and making city differently.
Discussion Panel @ MakeCity Festivalzentrum, Tschechisches Zentrum, Berlin, 16 June 2018
The “MakeCity 2018” architecture festival with 250 events in 18 days aims to make architecture in the capital more transparent and invites people to join in the conversation and help develop it
Article @ YEAST, Germany, 15 June 2018
With the increasing urbanization and the virulent climate crisis, interest in nature is also growing. In various formats, such as talks, discussions, guided tours, exhibitions, workshops, open-house events and more, the public is invited to think of green and gray infrastructure in the city. Something like this: what if we were to look at urban space from the perspective of animals and plants?
Publication @ Baunetz, Germany, 15 June 2018
A two week program explores how the VOID in the center of the Embassy’s premises can function as a pleasurable communication space by playing, dancing, lounging, exchanging, enjoying.
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
The “MakeCity 2018” architecture festival with 250 events in 18 days aims to make architecture in the capital more transparent and invites people to join in the conversation and help develop it.
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 very special event when Ada Colau, former city activist and since 2015 Mayor of Barcelona, and Sadiq Aman Khan, London’s first Muslim city head, travel to Berlin without being invited by the Governing Mayor.
Nevertheless, both will be in town on Thursday – and will open the second Make City Festival with building senator Katrin Lompscher and other guests.
The theme of the 18-day event is “City Remixed”.
Publication, Uwe Rada @ TAZ, Berlin, 11 juni 2018
Rüdiger Schaper, author and head of the cultural department of the Berlin “Tagesspiegel” presents his biography on Alexander von Humboldt and discusses Hybrid Space Lab’s Humboldt Volcano project during our Studio Talk @ MakeCity Festival. Moderation is by Merlijn Schoonenboom, historian and journalist.
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
Lucas Verweij will moderate presentations and a panel discussion with leading artists and architects from the Netherlands and Germany who work at the interface of architecture, theatre, and material & surface design in the public space and develop remarkable, often participatory concepts.
The Mart Stam Talks are organized by the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the Mart Stam Stiftung für Kunst + Gestaltung and the Weissensee Kunsthochschule Berlin.
Lectures & Panel Mart Stam Talks @ Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Berlin, 29 June 2018
BPD Magazine will publish in June 2018 a double interview with Prof. Frans Vogelaar, Partner at Hybrid Space Lab in Berlin and Prof. Dr. Elphi Nelissen, Dean of the Faculty of Architecture at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) on how digitization is changing mobility and the city. They 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
Fast-paced advances in technology are creating diffuse and volatile conditions in which international actors operate. Disruptive innovations such as machine learning and big data analytics are changing governments, NGOs, the media, businesses, and in some cases entire industries. New and unexpected players entering the field are putting pressure on the traditional division of roles between politics, business, journalism and civil society. And this is just the beginning: developments like artificial intelligence and blockchain technology are only just starting to have an impact.
Lecture & Workshop Digital Diplomacy Camp Un-Conference @ Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, The Hague, 2 February 2018
CircEUlar is a four year European Research and Innovation Action that will develop new modelling approaches for analysing circularity from a systems perspective accounting for dematerialisation and the transition to a service-based economy to limit material stock growth, lifetime extension of material stocks through repair, maintenance, reuse, waste treatment and material recycling.
Hybrid Space Lab @ CircEUlar, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Berlin, 23 September 2025
The Swiss architectural magazine Archithese published “Humboldt-Dschungel” as part of the issue on “Ruines”.
How would it be if the Berlin City Palace grew huge trees, sprouted up exotic plants and toppled a waterfall?
The Think Tank Hybrid Space Lab presents a refreshingly ruinous idea in the discussion about the controversial reconstruction.
Publication Humboldt Jungle @ archithese, Architecture Magazine, Switzerland, 15 January 2018
The Dutch and Flemish cultural association “Berlijnse Avonden e.V” presents Humboldt Jungle and Humboldt Volcano and invites you on January 6 to the studio of Elizabeth Sikiaridi and Frans Vogelaar, the architects for the new Berlin city palace – the Humboldt Forum – the Humboldt Volcano and the Humboldt Jungle have been designed.
Lecture & Discussion @ Berlijnse Avonden e.V., Berlin, 6 January 2018
The concept of Affect Space deals with the overlap of urban public spaces, the explosive growth of mobile media and wireless networks, and the intense affective exchanges that increasingly dominate how these spaces function.
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 invites established manufacturers, proponents of newer digital production tools, architects, and building industry representatives, to co-articulate a craftsmanship approach to incorporating digital fabrication into 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
The Urban Garden Kit at the Urbanism and Architecture Bi-City Biennial (UABB) brings together urban planners, architects and landscapers, artists and curators, game developers and communication experts and other creative professionals.
Lecture, Workshop & Exhibition @ UABB 2017, Hong Kong & Shenzhen, P.R. China, 16-22 December 2017
The documentary “Fabric” which we made for the documenta 14 is now part of the archive of the Foundation of the Hellenic World and of the collection of the Hellenic Cosmos Cultural Centre.
Archive Foundation of the Hellenic World @ Hellenic Cosmos Cultural Centre, Athens, 14 December 2017
Lecture “Naturetecture” at the Media Lab, Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing.
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
Recent developments such as Internet of Things, Big Data, Machine Intelligence and Precision Farming will algorithmically organize life, including urban nature.
These developments in technology and media are supporting the emergence of a new hybrid architecture, a BioTecture, where Nature and Architecture fuse.
Lectures & Discussions @ CAFA Art Museum, Central Academy of Fine Arts Art Museum (CAFA) & Beijing Visual Art Innovation Institute, no 8. Hua Jia Di Nan Jie, Chaoyang District, Beijing, P.R. China, 25-26 November 2017
BioTecture proposes how architecture will merge with green structures.
The accelerating developments in nature, bio-technology, technology and architecture are creating a new hybrid architecture.
Lecture BioTecture @ Communication University of China (CUC), Dingfuzhuang, Chaoyang District, Beijing, P.R. China, 24 November 2017
Humboldt Volcano is exhibited at the Crossing Border | Border Crossing, International Festival of Intermedia in Hong Kong. Humboldt Volcano, a hybrid building and vertical garden, is such an ‘inter-media’, as it opens up and enables the appropriation of the Berlin Humboldt Forum by an international multicultural public.
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.
CLASH is made out of elements that are to be transformed and expanded by visitors, tourists, artists, and inhabitants of Xi’an.
The futuristic and utopian installation CLASH embraces a social space and a shelter.
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 exhibition Silk Road, Portal to World Imagination at the Xi’an Art Museum in China re-imagines the cities along the Silk Road. Smart & the City showcases the integration of Smart Technologies and the Urban, as tools for a sustainable New Smart Silk Road.
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, a vision of the urban in the digital age, based on a “Network Paradigm” approach to urbanism, reinvents the historic networks, connecting them to today’s hybrid, combined urban and media, networks, accelerating them into 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 at Athens has archived the documentary “Fabric”.
“Fabric” is now part of the collection of the archives of the Gennadius Library.
Archive American School of Classical Studies @ Gennadius Library, Athens, 25 May 2017
Publication of the research on the Athens “Rex” theater and cinema complex in the Greek daily “Kathimerini”. The research on “Rex” was done in preparation of the documentary “Fabric” that is screened at the Athens School of Fine Arts in the framework of documenta 14 from April to July 2017.
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” features the life cycle of “Greek Spinning and Weaving Mills”, but at the same time it is the narration of the greater framework in which the bourgeois citizens of the Ottoman Empire acted. It focusses on the role of Athens after 1922 and on the industrialization with the many workers’ hands of the refugees from Asia-Minor, on social responsibility, and on labor ethos.
Fabric 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
Reconciling supporters and opponents of “Humboldt Forum”, the Humboldt Jungle and Humboldt Volcano received a strong positive reception in the Berlin cultural world.
Publication Green Emperor made in Greece, Nikos Vatopulos @ Kathimerini Greek Newspaper, 24 January 2017
Humboldt Volcano and Humboldt Jungle are part of the exhibition “Palace.City.Berlin.” in Ephraim Palais in Berlin.
The exhibition is devoted to the Berlin Palace and its significance for the city and its inhabitants.
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?
Smart City Berlin should address in an integrative way connected challenges such as urban growth and housing, migration and demographic change, mobility, use of resources and circularity, climate adaptation, citizen participation and digital networks.
Workshop Intelligent City Flexible Infrastructures for Smart City Development @ TU Berlin, HUMBOLDT-VIADRINA Governance Platform, Berlin, 21 November 2016
Tourism is a growing global phenomenon, adding to the wealth of cities, and contributing to the congestion of their “points of interest”; enabling global cultural exchange but also threatening local cultures and disrupting established local and global business models.
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
How do digital networks transform cultural institutions?
Digitalization supports hybridization as a fusion of creative artistic practices (post-medium art) as well as of cultural creators and consumers (cultural co-creation).
Participatory social media open up cultural institutions and transform them into active players in the creation of communities.
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 the environment.
But we do not need to consider a “longue durée” historical approach, giving priority to long-term historical structures over events.
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
The special art edition of the German newspaper DER TAGESSPIEGEL Kunst 2016, which appears during the 9th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, publishes an article by Bettina Homann, 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 a highly ambitious and innovative project in order to plan the next step of Beijing’s renowned 798 Art District and is presented during Beijing Design Week.
Workshop & Presentation INbetweenSTITUTE @ Urban China Magazine, Beijing, 26 – 27 September 2016
Given the masses of uprooted people worldwide the question for solutions from the global design community arises to help refugees feel at home and support those that want or have to stay make their lives liveable.
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 a combined urban-computer game to upgrade your neighborhood.
City Kit was developed for the Hong Kong Social Housing Authority with as a target group young people that are familiar with computer games but hardly play 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
Berlin is growing.
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
Urban shrinkage as a chance for the cityscape?
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
In pitch camps you can discuss your issues with experts, city officials as well as creatives to get inspiration and build networks.
Conference Cities in Transition @ Mörchenpark, Holzmarktstrasse 25, Berlin, 10 October 2015
Hybrid Design is a strategy that incorporates elements and processes from diverse fields that are in todays design practice not always perceived as compatible. This is a method to generate new design visions.
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
Humboldt Jungle press, radio and WEB publications.
Awareness Campaign Humboldt Jungle @ Press, Germany & International, 2015-2016
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 to grow.
On Tuesday evening, the project initiators spoke to experts and representatives of the various castle initiatives about possible implementations.
Publication Seductive Image, Brigitte Werneburg, Journalist @ TAZ, Berlin, 8 July 2015
Citizens take part in innumerable co-creation initiatives in the private and the public domains, and more importantly 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
In the Dutch Urban Lab the Dutch Embassy in 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 organizations and systems are today transforming our society in general.
With new technologies and digital media currently transforming production and social communication, urban and architectural design is being redefined in a new context.
Networked Participatory Design @ DAMDI Publishing House, Seoul, Republic of Korea, 1 May 2015
The Internet increasingly permeates our daily lives as more and with the Internet of Things (IoT) more objects are networked together.
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
Interactive workshop during the working visit of Queen Máxima of the Netherlands to Hamburg on March 20, 2015 is organised around the theme of “Intelligent Mobility in the City”.
Dutch and German policy makers, institutions, companies and universities went into dialogue and brainstormed about new and creative forms of public transport on land and water.
Workshop Intelligent Mobility, Queen Máxima of the Netherlands @ Intelligent Mobility in the City, Delta Cities, Hamburg, 20 March 2015
open! the platform for Art, Culture & the Public Domain published an essay by Eric Kluitenberg on Hybrid Space titled “Affect Space”.
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
On Wednesday 9 April 2014 in the evening the walls of the Opera House became a canvas for a light installation. The approximately 15 minute animation runs in a continuous loop on the facade of the opera house.
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
The animation film Smart & the City brings the themes processed at the “Metropolitan Solutions fair into the public realm, communicating to a general audience in a fresh, vibrant and generally comprehensive 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.And its European neighbour is bringing the atmosphere of the trade fair directly into the city: films about the “City of the Future” will be projected onto the façade of the opera house every evening until Wednesday.
Projection Smart & The City @ Opera, Hannover, Germany, 5 April 2014
On Wednesday 9 April 2014 in the evening the walls of the Opera House became a canvas for a light installation. The approximately 15 minute animation runs in a continuous loop on the facade of the opera house.
“Future Urbanism” project – a collection of forty one interviews with contemporary writers, architects, sociologists, economists and city planners by Strelka in Moscow.
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
Shrinking Car City, is a project on electromobility, the cityscape, urban growth and smart city.
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 projects today not only stand in the long tradition of the efforts of inserting the voice of the public into the process of shaping cities; they are also part of a general trend and of a paradigm shift.
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. Curated by CMoDA (China Millennium Monument Museum of Digital Arts), the exhibition augments and maps information design and application cases for smart cities initiatives around the world, and to use it as input for Smart Beijing case development.
Lecture Geo City Symposium @ CMoDA, China Millennium Monument Museum of Digital Arts, Beijing, 28 September 2013
How long can you hold your breath? Lecture on Crisis Design on September 26th 2013 at the event Our air! Our responsibility! , organized by Interactive Beijing and the Central Academy of Fine Arts Beijing.
Lecture Our Air! Our Responsibility! @ Beijing Design Week 2013, China Millennium Monument Museum of Digital Arts, Beijing, 26 September 2013
Hybrid Space Lab’s work is exhibited within the framework of the Dynamik und Wandel. Entwicklung der Städte am Rhein exhibit at the Liebfrauenkirche Duisburg (September 9th 2013 to October 13th 2013), 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
Drawings and analog notations are essential within the process of developing ideas, concepts and designs.
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 a combined urban-computer game to upgrade your neighborhood.
The CITY KIT project was developed for the Hong Kong Social Housing Authority with as a target group young people that are familiar with computer games but hardly play outside.
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 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
For the Design Journal, an international, refereed journal covering all aspects of design, Hybrid Space Lab wrote the article Rebooting (Dutch) Design on hybrid design for the special issue on Dutch Open design.
Publication Dutch Open @ Design Journal Volume 15, United Kingdom, December 2012
Exhibition and lecture Simple City at the architecture and design festival Plan 12 in Cologne.
Lecture Simple City @ plan12, Cologne, 22 September 2012
Exhibition Simple City @ plan12, Cologne, 21-28 September 2012
From stacking living spaces as efficiently as cardboard boxes to constructing strange amorphous objects according to standard computing power, architects can apparently do anything with the help of modules.
Consequently, “Architectural Particles – Modular Building in the Digital Age” is the highlight of the so-called Architecture Year 2012 at the Museum of Applied Arts Cologne (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
Coinciding with the rise of digital tools that foster participatory systems, Hybrid Space Lab is an entity that exists in the realm between architect and client, the traditional shapers of space.
Here Elizabeth Sikiaridi and Frans Vogelaar of Hybrid Space Lab share three of their projects (CITY KIT, DIY Pavilion, SIMPLE CITY) and their thoughts on networked participatory design systems today.
Publication Simple City @ World Architects eMagazine, 1 May 2012
Simple elements that make planning and construction much easier – architects have been looking into the possibilities afforded by modular construction for quite some time now.
What do these modules require in order to fulfill the basic functions of a living and working space and simultaneously remain adaptable in their implementation?
The exhibition, “Architekturteilchen”, at Cologne’s MAKK museum takes a closer look at this question.
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
Hybrid Space Lab is invited to lecture “Inert Innovation” 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
Lecture on Iannis Xenakis @ Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg, Berlin, 25 November 2011
Hybrid Design initiated by Prof. Frans Vogelaar, Academy of Media Arts Cologne, approaches technological developments from the perspective of the designer, by “inhabiting technology”, by transforming these technological developments to meet the way we want to live. It introduces the design fields that are emerging through the combination and fusion of environments, objects and services in the information-communication age.
Publication Re: Thinking Innovation, Haydn Shaughnessy @ Forbes, USA, 16 October 2011
The Department of Hybrid Space / Academy of Media Arts Cologne Germany (KHM) and its founder, Prof. Frans Vogelaar, presents “Hybrid Design”, consisting of lectures, screenings and a workshop on self replicating 3D printers (Fab Lab).
Lectures, Exhibition & Workshop Hybrid Design @ Beijing Design Week, Beijing, China, 27 September-3 October 2011
In recent years our means of interacting with one another have changed dramatically thanks to emerging virtual realities, globalitaty and mass customization.
Historically built space has been a platform for social interaction: how can architect ensure a relevant public role in an emerging media driven society, which seems to operate separately from traditional collective spaces.
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
Hybrid Design initiated by Prof. Frans Vogelaar, Academy of Media Arts Cologne, approaches technological developments from the perspective of the designer, by “inhabiting technology”, by transforming these technological developments to meet the way we want to live. It introduces the design fields that are emerging through the combination and fusion of environments, objects and services in the information-communication age.
Publication Re: Thinking Innovation, Haydn Shaughnessy @ Forbes, USA, 16 October 2011
Transdisciplinary workshop at the Centre of Contemporary Art Torun in Poland, focussing on notations of hybrid space, 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.
During the lecture, Hybrid Space Lab introduce Xenakis, the Greek music composer, theoretician, and architect.
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.
The public lecture serves as an introduction to the workshop “Hybrid Notations”.
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 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 Reconquest of the City @ ZENO, Germany, 1 January 2011
Hybrid Space Lab developed a series of projects for the radical appropriation of the controversial Humboldt Forum in Berlin:
Whereas Humboldt Jungle formulated a strong vision for the re-wilding of the Forum and Humboldt Volcano developed a concrete architectural design solution that addresses many of the foreseeable problems in the Humboldt Forum and that could be realized in the (near) future, Humboldt Kosmos is a fictional universe based on Humboldt Forum that opens up a multiplicity of possible futures.
Publication Humboldt Futures @ Atlas der Datenkörper 2, Transcript Verlag, Germany, 27 May 2024
The current processes of change in the environment, economy and society are also fundamentally changing the way we look at the landscape and how we deal with it in planning.
The new exhibition “NatureTecture” by the Chamber of Architects of North Rhine-Westphalia shows how our landscape has developed over the past centuries and what challenges landscape architects are currently facing.
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
Primary Conditions: The Emancipation of the Pluripotential.
In the societies of control, power relations come to be expressed through the action at a distance of one mind on another, through the brain’s power to affect and become affected, which is mediated and enriched 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 Bienniale of Urbanism & Architecture.
Winter Worm Summer Herb contains 9 video art works by Yang Yong, Jiang Zhe, Xu Tan, Leung Meeping, Kwan Ng, Urbanus, and Hybrid Space Lab.
The mobile and collapsible pavilion will travel to 4 locations in Hong Kong and Shenzen.
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
Film Festival Cologne is an important industry event and one of the leading festivals in Germany and presents the major global trends and showcase outstanding works of audiovisual storytelling.
Prof. Frans Vogelaar presents Hybrid Space and participates in the discussion panel at the Media Architecture section of the Film Festival Cologne 2009.
<span class=”u-font-color-grey”>Lecture & Panel Hybrid Space @ Media Architecture, Film Festival Cologne, 2 October 2009</span>
Frans Vogelaar has been appointed 111 Professor at China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China.
The Thousand Talents Program is a talent recruitment program established by the Government of China in 2008.
111 Professor, Prof. Frans Vogelaar @ China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China, 1 April 2009
The Winter Worm Summer Herb pavilion consists of triangular plywood plates sown together with the help of cable binders.
At a very low cost and low technology construction the pavilion is also a flexible mobile structure that can be very easily disassembled, transported, reassembled and sown together again, adjusting to the size of the site and the local requirements.
Publication City Kit @ Platform 21, Dutch Design Foundation, 20 October 2022
Soft Urbanism stands for an interdisciplinary field of work that examines the “soft” aspects, the communication aspects, of the city and deals with the dynamic interplay of urban planning and the space of mass media and communication networks, for example with information and communication processes 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. In a switch from changes in the neighbourhood that are beyond your control, City Kit makes you the architect, urban planner, environmental expert or designer. City Kit is currently shown with a presentation and demo version and soon you will be able to play and experience the game at Platform 21 during Checking Reality.
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
Electronic and digital systems generate completely new forms of migration.
In the creative arts, new phenomena related to migration and the synergies of disparate systems are emerging.
Artistic products evolve from traditional forms into hybrid digital forms.
Analog products are being digitized; data spaces are trans-located from one data storage system to another; existing sounds, images, and texts are remixed and fused into new datasets.
Lecture Hybrid Space @ General Public, Berlin, 4 April 2008
The lecture Soft Urbanism will address the interaction between the physical and the digital public domain in the contemporary urban networks.
It will focus on the way that the physical environment relates to the space of mass media and communication networks and how these influence each other.
Lecture Soft Urbanism, Between Physical and Digital Public Domain @ University of Architecture, Design and Planning, Tegnesalen, Toldkammeret, Aalborg, Denmark, 15 November 2007
This contribution discusses the interdisciplinary aspects of Iannis Xenakis’ oeuvre and his Synthesis of the Arts. In doing so, I draw on archival research-including Xenakis’ personal archives in Paris and interviews with him.
Publication, Lecture & Discussion Iannis Xenakis @ Make it New, le Poème électronique, Alice Foundation , Eindhoven, the Netherlands, 15 June 2004
This contribution discusses the interdisciplinary aspects of Iannis Xenakis’ oeuvre and his Synthesis of the Arts. In doing so, I draw on archival research-including Xenakis’ personal archives in Paris and interviews with him.
Publication, Lecture & Discussion Iannis Xenakis @ Make it New, le Poème électronique, Alice Foundation , Eindhoven, the Netherlands, 15 June 2004
Urban redevelopment starts selectively in the urban field with conversions and extensions, using resources sparingly and strategically.
The reprogramming of existing buildings is not just about functional reallocation.
The reutilisation of spaces is a process that goes beyond the functional aspects and also includes the re-coding and symbolic re-evaluation of space.
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
There is a fascinating moment of artistic synergy in the aesthetic production of the 20th century. An architect, Le Corbusier, conceived an electronic poem, an electronic synthesis of visual and acoustic events, as well as a “vessel for the poem” (a pavilion) for the presentation of the Philips company at the 1958 World Exhibition in Brussels.
The result was one of the most exciting buildings of the post-war era, the Philips Pavilion, in which the electronic composition and the building form interrelated parts of a total work of art in which the elements of light, colourful images, rhythm and sound combine to form an organic synthesis.
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
Structural change as a challenge.
Axel Schuch asks questions.
Elizabeth Sikiaridi answers.
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
What is computer and video game space – and: is there an architectural history of game space-time?
Across 500 pages, the edited book publication Space Time Play will investigate these questions by compiling designs, best practice examples, as well as essays, interviews, succinct statements, and game space analyses.
Publication Sub City @ Space Time Play, Birkhäuser, Publishers for Architecture, Basel, Boston, Berlin, 1 April 2006
Soft Urbanism stands for an interdisciplinary field of work that examines the ‘soft’ aspects, the communication aspects, of the city and deals with the dynamic interplay of urban development and the space of mass media and communication networks.
Soft urbanism, as a holistic view of urbanity, is important for the city in transition both in a context of shrinkage and in growth regions.
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 (European Urban Studies).
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
Bridging the gap and connecting the global media spheres with local content and place, an architecture of communication spaces proposes a combined analog-digital infrastructure: publicly accessible interfaces between the global media space and the local urban place.
Public Media Urban Interfaces is an alternative scenario for the interplay of mass media in order to reinforce the function of public (urban) space. This project develops a hybrid urban network-space, a fusion of media space and urban space.
It emphasises the role of the public in an increasingly privatised society and occupies the vacuum in between the local and the global. The products of this alliance of urban and media networks are “hybrid” spaces that are at the same time analog and digital, virtual and material, local and global.
Publication Public Media Urban Interfaces @ Metalocus, Madrid, Spain, 17 November 2005
Architect Elizabeth Sikiaridi, professor at the University of Duisburg-Essen, researches and teaches the effects of information and communication technologies on living and working.
In this interview, she comments on the opportunities and risks of smart home applications.
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 ranging from critical theory to project experiences by researchers and practitioners in the field of art, architecture, urban studies and digital media.
The focus is on understanding how the growing infrastructure of large digital displays influences the visual sphere of our public spaces.
Lecture Public Urban Media @ Conference Urban Screens, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 23-24 September 2005
Wearable Futures is an interdisciplinary conference, which aims to bring together practitioners, inventors, and theorists in the field of soft technology and wearables including those concerned with fashion, textiles, sportswear, interaction design, media and live arts, medical textiles, wellness, perception and psychology, IPR, polymer science, nanotechnology, military, and other relevant research strands.
Publication & Lecture Hybrid Urban Mobility Spaces @ Conference Wearable Futures, University of Wales, UK, 16 September 2005
To reinforce the significance of public space we have to deal with at least two “public”, the global and the local public, by creating spheres where local and global public space can fuse and interchange.
Publication Idensity® @ University Stuttgart, Germany, 1 August 2005
BUGA 05 in Munich provides food for thought.
As a contribution to the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development, which begins in 2005, a total of four symposia will be held in cooperation 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.
New interdisciplinary fields of planning and design are introduced: Soft Urbanism, exploring the interaction of urbanism and the space of mass media and communication networks, and Hybrid Space Design, developing fused analog-digital / architectural-media spaces.
Within this framework, “Idensity®” is proposed as a conceptual tool for developing space in the information-communication age.
Publication Idensity® @ MIT Leonardo Press, Boston, USA, 1 July 2005
It helps to develop a holistic view that considers the entire space of the urban landscape, that includes not only the built-up but also the undeveloped areas, not only the physical-architectural but also the digital-media spaces in the transformation processes of the urban.
Soft Urbanism stands for such an interdisciplinary field of work that examines the ‘soft’ aspects, the communication aspects, of the city and deals with the dynamic interplay of urban development and the space of mass media and communication networks.
Lecture Soft Urbanism @ Symposium Operation City, University of the Arts Berlin, Germany, 26-28 May 2005
Today, the communicational paradigm, with its “network-cities” and “nodes”, “terminal architectures” and “urban branding strategies” is infiltrating and transforming the architectural/urban discourse and practice.
Lecture & Panel Architecture of Switching @ ISEA 2004, Helsinki, Finland, 19-22 August 2004
To reinforce the significance of public space we have to deal with at least two “public”, the global and the local public, by creating spheres where local and global public space can fuse and interchange.
“The new city presupposes that the cables of the interhuman relations are switched reversibly, not in bundles as with television, but in real networks, respons(e)ibly, as in the telephone network. These are technical questions; and they are to be solved by urbanists and architects.“
Vilém Flusser 1990
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, by creating spheres where local and global public space can fuse and interchange.
“The new city presupposes that the cables of the interhuman relations are switched reversibly, not in bundles as with television, but in real networks, respons(e)ibly, as in the telephone network. These are technical questions; and they are to be solved by urbanists and architects.“
Vilém Flusser 1990
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, by creating spheres where local and global public space can fuse and interchange.
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 “public”, the global and the local public, by creating spheres where local and global public space can fuse and interchange.
“The new city presupposes that the cables of the interhuman relations are switched reversibly, not in bundles as with television, but in real networks, respons(e)ibly, as in the telephone network. These are technical questions; and they are to be solved by urbanists and architects.“
Vilém Flusser 1990
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, New Media Cultural “Art + Communication” 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
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 Information Technology and Architecture, Villö Huszai @ Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Switzerland, 1 February 2002
On the subject of “mobility: immobility”, a number of international architects and representatives from the political and business sectors were invited to attend the conference at Swissbau.
The symposium was intended to expand the traditionally rich architectural lectures in Basel through a new thematic focus: the links between architecture and urban development with information and communication technologies.
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 is new interdisciplinary field of design, researching the transformations of architectural, urban and regional space of the emerging “information age”, exploring the dynamic interaction of architecture, urbanism and the space of mass media and communication networks.
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 laboratory will descend the Rhine, the archetypal symbol of connection between Nordrhein-Westfalia and the Netherlands, in the week of October 8th till the 15th.
During the journey non-stop live programs are sent out via the internet, realised by artists, musicians and media collectives from both countries.
While descending the river the boat will dock in various cities along the Rhine for special on-site performances, events and art projects.
reBOOT @ Kunst NRW-NL, Amsterdam, 8 October 1999
What is the role of urban planning in this highly dynamic unpredictable environment?
What could replace the failing instrument of prognosis?
What will the tools for processing possible urban transformations be?
Could hybrid (urban and media) environments function as generators (of trust) transforming planning to an event-communication (space) and entertainment zone?
Discussion & Lecture Science Friction @ de Orderverstoorders, de Balie, Amsterdam, 25 Januari 1999
Academy for Media Arts is located where I would like to see it most, in between.
And I mean that in the strict sense of the word, because I believe that the interspaces will be the most exciting spaces in the future.
So, not these fixed gravitational places, but what moves between the designated places.
Interview Ivory Tower with Many Openings, Amine Haase & Siegfried Zielinsky @ Kunstforum, Germany, January 1999
What is the role of urban planning in this highly dynamic unpredictable environment?
What could replace the failing instrument of prognosis?
What will the tools for processing possible urban transformations be?
Could hybrid (urban and media) environments function as generators (of trust) transforming planning to an event-communication (space) and entertainment zone?
Discussion & Lecture Science Friction @ de Orderverstoorders, de Balie, Amsterdam, 25 Januari 1999
Publication “Politics of Space” for Lab für Kunst und Apparate, Academy for Media Arts.
The segregation processes in media environments are nothing but the enhancement of tendencies manifesting themselves in the “real” space with the creation of the urban ghettos and their counterparts, the (suburban) protected social reservoirs for the upper classes.
These access-controlled residential areas can be found today all over the world, in Third World and in western democracies as well as in the east neo-capitalist countries.They range from heavily protected impenetrable fortresses to retirement towns for well-off pensioners or projects like Walt Disney’s Celebration – an entire residential town (not a theme park).
Publication Politics of Space @ Lab für Kunst und Apparate, Academy of Media Arts, Cologne, Germany, 1 October 1998
Restricted realization competition for the extension of the Deutsche Bundesbank in Frankfurt/M.
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
The Academy of Media Arts (KHM) was founded in 1990 and offers an educational concept, unique within Germany, which brings film, art and science together.
The Academy of Media Arts is a teaching and research institution for media 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.
The traditional functions of urban public space are being taken over by telecommunications networks.
The inputs and outputs of their channels are increasingly located in private interior spaces.
Soft Urbanism @ Architect, Magazine for Architecture and Urbanism, 1 June 1997
Interaction or Manipulation?
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 lacks the tangibility of real space. Conversely, the culture of the city needs to integrate digital technology.
How telecommunications and the city interact.
Media Babies on Chanel no.5 is a concept for a digital public structure for the city of London.
Article Network Architecture, Ed van Hinte @ Items #6, 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
Media Babies on CHANEL NO.5 derives its strength from fragmentation in order to develop a truly public “narrow/broadcasting/catching media network. A local-based public interface the “Media Baby” is instrument that seduces its public 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
Media Babies on CHANEL NO.5 derives its strength from fragmentation in order to develop a truly public “narrow/broadcasting/catching media network. A local-based public interface the “Media Baby” is instrument that seduces its public 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 the construction of the German Parliament in Bonn Helmut Newton photographs the German Chancelor Helmut Kohl.
Elisabeth Sikiaridi simultaneously takes a picture of Helmut Kohl and Helmut Newton.
Photograph of Helmut Kohl & Elisabeth Sikiaridi @ Helmut 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.
The initiative deserves and receives much praise.
However, the elaboration of this new prize leaves much to be desired.
Carel Kuitenbrouwer takes stock now that the prize has been awarded for the first time.
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.
The open network of forms constructed from scrap-like material was therefore called a “brilliant plan” by the jury.
Publication Frans Hals Prize for Exhibition Design, Carel Kuitenbrouwer @ NRC Handelsblad, Rotterdam, 14 September 1988
The Uruba exhibition features traditional fabrics and clothing, was brought together by the Ahmadu Bello University of Zaria in Nigeria with the cooperation of the Ministry of Culture in Lagos and was previously on display at the Commenwealth Institute in London.
Exhibition Uruba, Article by Saskia de Bodt @ NRC Handelsblad, Rotterdam Library, Museum for Ethnlogy, 29 Januari 1985
House for Juliet is an intervention by Alessandro Mendini in the building that according to legend (and partly but only partly according to history and findings) is identified as a wing of the Capulets’ palace.
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