The re:future lab is an institute for art and future design and a school for transformation at the interfaces of art, design and futures studies, with a focus on planetary thinking and socio-cultural shifts.
Through a multidimensional program spanning exhibitions, education and consulting, the re:future lab equips a new generation of future-makers with cross-disciplinary knowledge, tools and methods to tackle contemporary challenges in the ecological, social, economic and cultural spheres.
Upcoming
What if the Ocean Were a City?
Exhibition and Interactive Program
2-16 May, 2025
Parallel to the Berlin Gallery Weekend in May 2025 and as part of the __matter Festival and BUA event series »ON WATER | PARCOURS«, design researcher and diver Rasa Weber takes on the challenge of creating an artificial reef in the river Spree, a project she calls »Syntopolis«. Created in collaboration with local artisans, the reef will slowly become a new ecological habitat for various life forms.
Streamed into the re:future lab, which is nestled in the historic former AEG factory site »Electropolis« in Berlin-Oberschöneweide, the reef will transform the institute’s exhibition space into an immersive aquatic habitat, where encounters, experiences and reflections on shared ecological futures become tangible. »What if the Ocean Were a City« offers a multidirectional program spanning an exhibition, a river cruise, interactive tours, co-creation workshops, talks, and panel discussions.
'Syntopolis' reef prototype in STARESO, Rasa Weber & Atelier Marie Drouet. Photo: Till Timmermann, 2024
Highlights
WELT am Sonntag (Gesine Borcherdt)