Think Tank | Hybrid Space Lab

THINK TANK

AIpocalypse

In the era of AI, creativity constitutes a fundamental human advantage, as it ranks among the few competencies whose value actually increases as automation advances.

hAIbrid @ Berlin, 28 May 2026

weCARElab

5-minute care communities

imagines tech innovations and digital and hybrid solutions together with spatial, social and cultural aspects of health care and prevention creating 5-minute Communities.

weCARElab @ Global, 2025
Keynote & Panel weCARElab @ FUTUROMUNDO Foresight, Future Urban Economies Forum, Stuttgart, Germany, 3 Juli 2025

Cool Cities

Athens climate adaptation

urban climate adaptation, ventilation of the city, Sponge City, green corridors and greening of buildings: Athens will become more resilient to the impacts of climate change, enhance the quality of life for their citizens, and support local biodiversity.

COOL cities @ Municipality of Athens, Deputy Mayor of Athens for Climate Governance and Social Economy Nikos Chrysogelos, Athens, 25 August 2024

Climate City

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Climate City

A Smart City should be a Climate-conscious City

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.

Lectures & Discussions Climate City @ Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, Berlin, 20 November 2019

“That knowledge has become the resource and not just one of the resources, this is what makes our society a “post-capitalist” one.

This fundamentally changes the structure of society. This creates a new social dynamic. This creates a new economic dynamic. This creates a new politics.”
Peter Drucker “Post-Capitalist Society,” 1993

Cognitive Space

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Public Media Urban Interfaces

The emerging space of digital information-communication networks is modifying not only our physical environment but the social, economic, and cultural organization of our societies in general.

Information-communication technology (ICT) is radically changing the way we live, interact and perceive our world.

Publication Space of Flows and Space of Places versus Hybrid Space @ Delft University of Technology, Delft School of Design Series on Architecture and Urbanism, Delft, the Netherlands, November 2010

Co-Thenticity
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Au-Thenticity

Design culture is obsessed with authenticity.

Copying is often deemed reprehensible, and borrowing another’s idea or incorporating elements of his or her work into one’s own is viewed as a sign of creative impoverishment.

But is this right?

Hybridization is an evolutionary strategy of cumulative, dynamic cultures that are based on intercultural connections and fostered by cross-fertilization.

Lecture Co-Thenticity @ Dutch Design Institute, Beijing Design Week, Beijing, 28 september 2011

“Peter Drucker proposed “the universally educated person” … who, combines the manager’s ability to apply knowledge with the intellectual aptitude to think in terms of pure concepts.

Such a person would be the opposite of the polymath – those rare people who are simultaneously expert in Mandarin Chinese and nuclear physics.

This new kind of person, on the contrary, would be someone capable of applying the results of expert research from a specialized field to general fields of work: applying insights from chaos theory to economics, from genetics to archaeology, or from data mining to social history.”

Paul Mason “Postcapitalism,” 2015

Infodrome

Space in the Information and Communication Age, Processing the Unplannable

Infodrome is a think tank for the Dutch government on the Information Society.

The objectives of Infodrome are gaining insight into the social consequences of the information revolution, organizing and feeding the public debate about the role of government in this, and advising the government on relevant strategic choices.

The emerging space of digital information/communication flows is modifying traditional analog urban networks.

Virtual spaces are influencing and interacting with real urban places.

Research & Publications “The Use of Space in the Information Communication Age” @ Infodrome, Thinktank of the Dutch Government, Den Haag, 1 March 2000

B.A.N.G.

Binary + Atom + Neuron + Gene

B.A.N.G. is the fusion of Binary, Atoms, Neurons, and Genes.

B.A.N.G. deals with the complexity of our globalized and ‘glocalized’ world.

Lectures & Workshop B.A.N.G. @ Conference Design by Culture, Berlin, 24 June 2016

Voiced Space

Re-signification processes of existing monuments, sites and territories

How to read territories in light of their historical relations to former colonies and how to contribute to the formation of an inclusive collective cultural heritage.

Accustomed to the places we daily encounter, we often overlook or forget about the traces of contested pasts that surround us.

Voiced Space is conceptualized by Hybrid Space Lab for Het Nieuwe Instituut the Dutch institute for Architecture, Design and Digital Culture.

Lectures, Workshops & Conference International Research Program @ Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, 2019~2022

BETWEENstitute

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hybrid models for culture

BETWEENstitute speculates on new hybrid models for culture and develops future visions for Berlin cultural networks involved in research, production and distribution of media culture.

We developed hAIbrid, a Machine Learning Model (MLM) based on our visual and conceptual work, to drive the ideation for BETWEENstitute.

BETWEENstitute is developed and curated by Hybrid Space Lab, on invitation by transmediale and CTM Festival.

Presentation & Discussion BETWEENstitute @ transmediale, Kuppelhalle silent green, Gerichtstraße 35, 13347 Berlin, 16.00-17.30, 30 January 2025

Deep Space

Politics of Memory, Controversial Space and Monuments, Heritage and Digitalization

Deep Space is a long-term investigative program initiated to deal with politics of memory, controversial space and monuments, heritage and digitalization.

Valle de los Caídos with its 152-meter-tall cross visible from more than 30 kilometers away and its “basilica”, a 263-meter long crypt with a 52-meter high vault cut out of the granite mountain rock, is one of the world’s most controversial monuments.

Workshop Deep Space: re-signifying Valle de los Caídos @ Medialab Prado & Valle de los Caídos, Madrid, 25-27 October 2018