Hybrid Plattform
c/o Universität der Künste Berlin
Einsteinufer 43
10587 Berlin
+49 (0)30 3185 – 2721 / 2945 / 2194
info[at]hybrid-plattform.org
Hybrid Lab
Villa Bell
Marchstraße 8
10587 Berlin
The Hybrid Lab is a space for work, events and experimentation. The lively place brings together the various project partners, scientists, artists and designers from UdK Berlin and TU Berlin. Inter-, trans- and post-disciplinary projects, events, workshops and seminars are invited to use the space. Please contact our lab coordinator Nadine Ackah-Mensah for information on use and terms of use at
nadine.ackah-mensah[at]hybrid-plattform.org
Hybrid Plattform
c/o Universität der Künste Berlin
Einsteinufer 43
10587 Berlin
+49 (0)30 3185 – 2721 / 2945 / 2194
info[at]hybrid-plattform.org
Hybrid Lab
Villa Bell
Marchstraße 8
10587 Berlin
The Hybrid Lab is a space for work, events and experimentation. The lively place brings together the various project partners, scientists, artists and designers from UdK Berlin and TU Berlin. Inter-, trans- and post-disciplinary projects, events, workshops and seminars are invited to use the space. Please contact our lab coordinator Nadine Ackah-Mensah for information on use and terms of use at
nadine.ackah-mensah[at]hybrid-plattform.org
The Hybrid Plattform is a joint project platform of the Berlin University of the Arts and the Technische Universität Berlin. In the pilot project, artists, scientists and experts work together across the boundaries of the individual disciplines and universities on promising topics and issues. This results in unique projects, new networks, additional platforms and innovative approaches in teaching and research.
The Hybrid Plattform is an organizational adapter between universities and other cooperation partners. As an academic incubator, it opens up new ideas in networked research and teaching and serves as a reflexive intermediary in the coordination and moderation of transdisciplinary work. In addition, the Hybrid Platform is a communicative interface between the universities, the cultural and scientific landscape and thus contributes to the transfer to the public.
The Hybrid Plattform offers national and international networks for project partners, experts and organizations for an active exchange; as an active platform, new research fields and ideas can be presented through talks, events, retreats and symposia, as well as press communication. The Hybrid Plattform is happy to share institutional knowledge regarding cultures, organizational processes and cooperation procedures at the TU Berlin and the UdK Berlin, and it also supports the implementation of formats that promote a hybrid way of thinking in teaching and among young scientists and artists.
The Hybrid Plattform team consists of two project coordinators from the Technische Universität Berlin and the Berlin University of the Arts, who design the Hybrid Plattform program with the active support of student employees. A steering committee of representatives from both universities acts in an advisory capacity.
Dr. Michael Fowler
Dr. Anne Kurr
TU Berlin / michael.fowler[at]hybrid-plattform.org
UdK Berlin / anne.kurr[at]hybrid-plattform.org
Michael D. Fowler is a scholar and curator with an interest in interdisciplinary practices. With a background in classical music and sound studies, he has expertise in the convergence of art, science, sound and acoustics. Michael's extensive involvement in art/science projects between TU and UdK over the past five years demonstrates his commitment to fostering collaborative initiatives and experimental knowledge practices. He is an alumnus of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation fellowship program and has extensive experience in research methods, research management, teaching and outreach.
Dr. Anne Kurr is the coordinator of the Hybrid Plattform project at Berlin University of the Arts and, together with her team, designs events, projects and teaching formats.
Anne Kurr studied art history and history at the Freie Universität Berlin and Paris I - Pantheon-Sorbonne. As a research assistant at the Chair of German History at the University of Hamburg and an associated researcher at the Research Center for Contemporary History in Hamburg, she completed her doctorate on the subject of “Questions of Distribution. Perception and Knowledge of Wealth in the Federal Republic of Germany” (Campus 2022). Her particular research interests include dimensions of social inequality and social transformation processes in the 20th and 21st centuries.
In recent years, Anne Kurr has worked as a curator, cultural mediator and in political education in Germany and abroad. In her curatorial practice, she promotes the exchange of academic and artistic positions, such as in the Goethe-Institut's international project Lockdown Lehren (2021-22), which she continues on the Hybrid Plattform.
As a cultural mediator, her expertise includes the history of German colonialism and decolonization processes, especially in the Ethnological Museum, as well as educational work critical of anti-Semitism in the context of the exhibition “Flashes of Memory. Photography in the Holocaust” in the ‘Museum of Photography’ at the international Holocaust memorial Yad Vashem. She conceptualizes and leads educational formats for the Berlin State Museums, the Berlin City Museum and the University of Konstanz, among others.
Her current teaching focus is on queer-feminist theory, feminist artistic practices and gender equality, and she works with the Neurotitan Gallery and the German Digital Women's Archive, among others.
Nadine Ackah-Mensah
Gerrit Ludwig
Elena Saerberg
nadine.ackah-mensah[at]hybrid-plattform.org
gerrit.ludwig[at]hybrid-plattform.org
elena.saerberg[at]hybrid-plattform.org
Prof. Dr. Christoph Gengnagel
Prof. Dr. Vera Meyer
Prof. Dr. Stefan Neuner
Dr. Audrey-Catherine Podann
Prof. Kirsten Reese
Anne Renner
Prof. Dr. Stefan Weinzierl
TU Berlin / Website
The Hybrid Plattform was originally created as one of five fields of action of the project “Sustainable vitalization of the creative quarter on and around Campus Charlottenburg” (NAVI BC), which ran from 2008 to 2010. The focus was on the important issue of linking science and art in order to make the Charlottenburg Campus an attractive location for research, companies and the creative sector both nationally and internationally.
In 2011, the Hybrid Plattform became an independent project based at the universities themselves, led by two project managers from the two universities: Barbara Stark (TU Berlin, Head of the Research Department) and Prof. Dr. Christoph Gengnagel (UdK Berlin, FG Constructive Design and Structural Design). The content of the Hybrid Platform was conceived by the project leaders and by researchers and lecturers from TU Berlin and UdK Berlin.
As part of a cooperation with the Social Science Research Center Berlin, an accompanying study of the Hybrid Plattform and its projects - led by social scientist Dr. Maria Oppen - was carried out in 2013/2014. The results were fed back into the projects and incorporated into the Hybrid Platform's work program.
In its first phase from April 2011 to June 2015, the platform was supported by the European Regional Development Fund as part of the “Project Future” initiative of the Berlin Senate Department for Economics, Technology and Research. When the Hybrid Lab moved into the Villa Bell in July 2016, a dedicated and neutral venue for the Hybrid Platform was created on the Charlottenburg Campus. As part of the “Germany - Land of Ideas” initiative, the Hybrid Plattform was named one of 100 projects in a nationwide competition in 2016 as an “Outstanding Landmark in the Land of Ideas”.
Since 2015/2016, the Hybrid Plattform has been funded by the participating universities. Until 2021, four project managers represented the two universities in research, teaching and administration: in addition to Barbara Stark and Prof. Dr. Christoph Gengnagel, these are Prof. Dr. Stefan Weinzierl (TU Berlin, Audio Communication Group) and Prof. Kora Kimpel (UdK Berlin, Digital Media Design Fundamentals Group).
Since 2022, the board has expanded to eight members in order to represent the diversity of disciplines at both universities and to strengthen the third mission of transfer to the public.
The Hybrid Plattform is a joint project platform of the Berlin University of the Arts and the Technische Universität Berlin. In the pilot project, artists, scientists and experts work together across the boundaries of the individual disciplines and universities on promising topics and issues. This results in unique projects, new networks, additional platforms and innovative approaches in teaching and research.
The Hybrid Plattform is an organizational adapter between universities and other cooperation partners. As an academic incubator, it opens up new ideas in networked research and teaching and serves as a reflexive intermediary in the coordination and moderation of transdisciplinary work. In addition, the Hybrid Platform is a communicative interface between the universities, the cultural and scientific landscape and thus contributes to the transfer to the public.
The Hybrid Plattform offers national and international networks for project partners, experts and organizations for an active exchange; as an active platform, new research fields and ideas can be presented through talks, events, retreats and symposia, as well as press communication. The Hybrid Plattform is happy to share institutional knowledge regarding cultures, organizational processes and cooperation procedures at the TU Berlin and the UdK Berlin, and it also supports the implementation of formats that promote a hybrid way of thinking in teaching and among young scientists and artists.
The Hybrid Plattform team consists of two project coordinators from the Technische Universität Berlin and the Berlin University of the Arts, who design the Hybrid Plattform program with the active support of student employees. A steering committee of representatives from both universities acts in an advisory capacity.
Dr. Michael Fowler
Dr. Anne Kurr
TU Berlin / michael.fowler[at]hybrid-plattform.org
UdK Berlin / anne.kurr[at]hybrid-plattform.org
Michael D. Fowler is a scholar and curator with an interest in interdisciplinary practices. With a background in classical music and sound studies, he has expertise in the convergence of art, science, sound and acoustics. Michael's extensive involvement in art/science projects between TU and UdK over the past five years demonstrates his commitment to fostering collaborative initiatives and experimental knowledge practices. He is an alumnus of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation fellowship program and has extensive experience in research methods, research management, teaching and outreach.
Dr. Anne Kurr is the coordinator of the Hybrid Plattform project at Berlin University of the Arts and, together with her team, designs events, projects and teaching formats.
Anne Kurr studied art history and history at the Freie Universität Berlin and Paris I - Pantheon-Sorbonne. As a research assistant at the Chair of German History at the University of Hamburg and an associated researcher at the Research Center for Contemporary History in Hamburg, she completed her doctorate on the subject of “Questions of Distribution. Perception and Knowledge of Wealth in the Federal Republic of Germany” (Campus 2022). Her particular research interests include dimensions of social inequality and social transformation processes in the 20th and 21st centuries.
In recent years, Anne Kurr has worked as a curator, cultural mediator and in political education in Germany and abroad. In her curatorial practice, she promotes the exchange of academic and artistic positions, such as in the Goethe-Institut's international project Lockdown Lehren (2021-22), which she continues on the Hybrid Plattform.
As a cultural mediator, her expertise includes the history of German colonialism and decolonization processes, especially in the Ethnological Museum, as well as educational work critical of anti-Semitism in the context of the exhibition “Flashes of Memory. Photography in the Holocaust” in the ‘Museum of Photography’ at the international Holocaust memorial Yad Vashem. She conceptualizes and leads educational formats for the Berlin State Museums, the Berlin City Museum and the University of Konstanz, among others.
Her current teaching focus is on queer-feminist theory, feminist artistic practices and gender equality, and she works with the Neurotitan Gallery and the German Digital Women's Archive, among others.
Nadine Ackah-Mensah
Gerrit Ludwig
Elena Saerberg
Prof. Dr. Christoph Gengnagel
Prof. Dr. Vera Meyer
Prof. Dr. Stefan Neuner
Dr. Audrey-Catherine Podann
Prof. Kirsten Reese
Anne Renner
Prof. Dr. Stefan Weinzierl
TU Berlin / Website
The Hybrid Plattform was originally created as one of five fields of action of the project “Sustainable vitalization of the creative quarter on and around Campus Charlottenburg” (NAVI BC), which ran from 2008 to 2010. The focus was on the important issue of linking science and art in order to make the Charlottenburg Campus an attractive location for research, companies and the creative sector both nationally and internationally.
In 2011, the Hybrid Plattform became an independent project based at the universities themselves, led by two project managers from the two universities: Barbara Stark (TU Berlin, Head of the Research Department) and Prof. Dr. Christoph Gengnagel (UdK Berlin, FG Constructive Design and Structural Design). The content of the Hybrid Platform was conceived by the project leaders and by researchers and lecturers from TU Berlin and UdK Berlin.
As part of a cooperation with the Social Science Research Center Berlin, an accompanying study of the Hybrid Plattform and its projects - led by social scientist Dr. Maria Oppen - was carried out in 2013/2014. The results were fed back into the projects and incorporated into the Hybrid Platform's work program.
In its first phase from April 2011 to June 2015, the platform was supported by the European Regional Development Fund as part of the “Project Future” initiative of the Berlin Senate Department for Economics, Technology and Research. When the Hybrid Lab moved into the Villa Bell in July 2016, a dedicated and neutral venue for the Hybrid Platform was created on the Charlottenburg Campus. As part of the “Germany - Land of Ideas” initiative, the Hybrid Plattform was named one of 100 projects in a nationwide competition in 2016 as an “Outstanding Landmark in the Land of Ideas”.
Since 2015/2016, the Hybrid Plattform has been funded by the participating universities. Until 2021, four project managers represented the two universities in research, teaching and administration: in addition to Barbara Stark and Prof. Dr. Christoph Gengnagel, these are Prof. Dr. Stefan Weinzierl (TU Berlin, Audio Communication Group) and Prof. Kora Kimpel (UdK Berlin, Digital Media Design Fundamentals Group).
Since 2022, the board has expanded to eight members in order to represent the diversity of disciplines at both universities and to strengthen the third mission of transfer to the public.