For the German Federal Cultural Foundation we developed Co-Creating Hybrid Culture that addresses the augmenting of physical cultural sites and practices through digital spaces via transdisciplinary co-creating events.
Research & Concept @ German Federal Cultural Foundation, Halle an der Saale, Germany, 1 April 2021
Concept Development @ German Federal Cultural Foundation, Halle an der Saale, Germany, 1 April 2021
The notion of a circular city has taken to occupy center stage as a main concept for sustainable zero-waste urban futures. And yet, as one takes a closer look, the circle expands in multiple ripples and loops, revealing the sheer complexity that envisioning â let alone developing â circular cities entail.
Lectures, Workshops, Symposium, FieldLab @ Hybrid Space Lab, 2022 – 2024
Convers(at)ions engages creatively with exchanges over border phenomenology and performativity, it transforms negative spaces such as military demarcations and borders by adopting a âmore-than-humanâ perspective and taps into the potential of nature and environmental conservation activities.
Convers(at)ions engages creatively with exchanges over border phenomenology and performativity, it transforms negative spaces such as military demarcations and borders by adopting a âmore-than-humanâ perspective and taps into the potential of nature and environmental conservation activities.
ReWild Autobahn proposes a hybrid (natural and artificial) landscape on a dismantled urban highway in Berlin as a green corridor for humans and non-humans.
Focussing on rereading the cityscape, granting visibility and recognition to voices and histories previously silenced, the program focuses on fostering memory-making and processing through the development of innovative, participatory methods that do not physically touch the spaces involved.
Grow Your Green City is an international campaign creating awareness of the fundamental role played by urban green. Grow Your Green City is committed to the idea that a Smart City should be a climate-conscious city, exploring how digital and media technologies can contribute to address urban climate adaptation and water-conscious urban development, strengthening and promoting sustainability cultures.
Concept Architecture @ Floriade Almere, The Netherlands, 25 February 2021
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the use of digital instruments is rapidly increasing. As the possible consequences of digitization are more sharply outlined, this opens new possibilities for spatial organization. This urges us to reconsider the guiding principles and models for the urbanization of technology we want to follow and what our city visions are. We can still choose.
Publication Post COVID-19 City
@ KHM #0 Magazine, Academy of Media Arts (KHM), Cologne, Germany, 1 July 2022
What is the relationship between city visions and urban concepts from the past and todayâs Smart City narratives?
Climate City explores how digital technologies contribute to addressing climate adaptation and develops digitalization strategies that take urban sustainability into account. Climate City focuses on digitally supported participatory climate adaptation and is committed to the idea that a smart city should be a climate-conscious city.
The classic means of transport â car, bicycle, public transport and walking are increasingly supplemented and integrated with upcoming forms of mobility. Which user groups are the target of the new digitally supported and data-powered mobility services such as car sharing, ride sharing, rental bikes and electric scooters?
As a consequence of the more than 65 years long near absence of human activity, the Korean DMZÂ land strip has become a verdant 984 square kilometers nature reserve where endangered flora and fauna species had the chance to regain space.
The Korean DMZ has become a testimony to unintentional beauty. Thriving vegetation and undisturbed wildlife now cover the painful, conflict-born void along the military demarcation.
Over the last few years, it has gathered international attention due to its symbolic value as well as to individual and bilateral bids by North and South Korea securing UNESCO Biosphere status for areas of the DMZ.
Soft Urbanism is a new interdisciplinary field of planning, investigating the transformations of space in the emerging information and communication age and designing the interplay of urban and media networks.
Hybrid Urbanism investigates the transformations of space in the information and communication age and develops and designs hybrid urban and media networks.
Media networks are influencing and interacting with ârealâ places. These digital information-communication networks are changing our physical environment and also the social, economic, and cultural organization of our societies in general.
A workshop focusing is the revitalization of the generic Greek modern apartment buildings âpolykatoikiesâ
Sustainable and innovative cycling traffic resources and knowledge exchange between the cities of Amsterdam and Berlin.
From Smart City to Smart Citizen: mapping the Smart City, empowering the Smart Citizen.
Smart City is the fusion of the Urban and the Digital Age.
Ubiquitous digitalisation together with the increasing complexity of global challenges demand for interdisciplinary co-designing processes, involving society at large.
INbetweenSTITUTE is a strategy for strengthening the Beijing art district 798 as a resilient creative cluster and as Chinaâs Creative Lab.
This general trend reflects on all aspects of our existence: culture, politics, economics, etc. and, of course, on cities. One of the most significant achievements of the 20th century â network technologies â have provided our planet with a totally new digital layer: virtual reality. This has given rise to a whole new sphere of interplay between urban and media networks. Communication networks are changing our society.
Interview by the STRELKA Institute in Moscow for the Future Urbanism project â forty one interviews with contemporary writers, architects, sociologists, economists and city planners.
Anastassia Smirnova, Programming Director @ Strelka Institute, Moscow, 15 December 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.
Publication The New Institute @ Deutsche Bauzeitung, Germany, 3 June 2013
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.
Hybrid Space Lab is concerned with how the expanding media networks interact with the physical, the public space. Their work is to be seen at the International Architecture Biennale 1ab in Rotterdam. International Architecture Biennale 1ab in Rotterdam.
Interview Many to Many @ Deutsche Bauzeitung, Germany, 1 March 2006
The property becomes the interface, the house develops into a âsmartâ. Network environment. Similar to the car, the connected car, which is not just a project from Microsoft, but has long been a reality.
Interview social construction of technology @ Bundesgartenschau 2005, BUGA, Munich, 1 September 2005
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.
Neighbours Network City: a project proposal for the city of Essen and the Ruhr region in Germany as the Cultural Capital of Europe.
Concept @ European Cultural Capital Ruhr, German, 2003
Media Babies on CHANEL NO.5 derives its strength from fragmentation in order to develop a truly public ânarrow/broadcasting/catching media network. A local-based public interface the âMedia Babyâ is instrument that seduces its public to use and abuse the television medium, maximizing its possible spontaneity by hijacking the publicâs imagination.
Publication @ KHM Yearbook for Art and Apparatus, Academy for Media Arts, Cologne, Germany, 1 October 1998
Media Babies on CHANEL NO.5 derives its strength from fragmentation in order to develop a truly public ânarrow/broadcasting/catching media network. A local-based public interface the âMedia Babyâ is instrument that seduces its public to use and abuse the television medium, maximizing its possible spontaneity by hijacking the publicâs imagination.
Exhibition Demand your Right to Broadcast! @ Architectural Association School of Architecture, London, 24 July 1991